Post by katonbarge on Apr 6, 2020 1:57:08 GMT
Having no feedback at all about the Mississippi site(s), i went looking for a site just for me, more a place i can park the land vehicle in an enclosed and locked up way, drop off my supplies in a cache, establish a radio-to-landline link (the ICW is under two miles away in 3 different directions), and maybe take a nap. I found a few places within three miles of ramps, in the 1/4 acre category, $10k and less, with water on them (even tho one site may not float even a canoe as is), with utilities available, and on a well-kept gravel or paved road.
If not for the covid mandatory shelter-in-place order statewide, i'd have already driven down there to look 3 or 4 sites over.
I plan on making sure i can use the ramps, touch the water on the land, fence the land, and place 20ft shipping containers (tastefully disguised) on floaties (instead of permanently building anything on stilts as everyone else is doing). Applying outsides to a container can make it meet neighborhood prettyness standards as well as keep the sun off it, and keep the boat-building noise inside it. It's a good step to have a site for under $100/mo to stage at. It's not going to be a permanent place to live for me, i plan on visiting it, but for less and less time as time goes by.
None of the cheap sites are going to be solar friendly. That's to say a panel or a few could be put up in summer for testing prior to placing them on a seastead, but they won't get sun all day, or in winter. There are some sites over $30k that have much better sun, and navigable water too, but i am not putting that kind of money into a site for only me, a site i plan to not be actually living at. Likewise a site to serve as a public or a commercial interface.
It is annoying that each single effort like this is a duplication of previous single efforts, and later people will separately duplicate my efforts, when a group effort can multiply the individual efforts.
If not for the covid mandatory shelter-in-place order statewide, i'd have already driven down there to look 3 or 4 sites over.
I plan on making sure i can use the ramps, touch the water on the land, fence the land, and place 20ft shipping containers (tastefully disguised) on floaties (instead of permanently building anything on stilts as everyone else is doing). Applying outsides to a container can make it meet neighborhood prettyness standards as well as keep the sun off it, and keep the boat-building noise inside it. It's a good step to have a site for under $100/mo to stage at. It's not going to be a permanent place to live for me, i plan on visiting it, but for less and less time as time goes by.
None of the cheap sites are going to be solar friendly. That's to say a panel or a few could be put up in summer for testing prior to placing them on a seastead, but they won't get sun all day, or in winter. There are some sites over $30k that have much better sun, and navigable water too, but i am not putting that kind of money into a site for only me, a site i plan to not be actually living at. Likewise a site to serve as a public or a commercial interface.
It is annoying that each single effort like this is a duplication of previous single efforts, and later people will separately duplicate my efforts, when a group effort can multiply the individual efforts.