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@Ponygirl@mastodon.social There are complex and longstanding boating and fishing cultures in these European coastal villages and towns! The fact they have a largish boat doesn't mean they're rich or even moderately wealthy; that boat is a family asset. We also have GRT communities in the UK with huge, hundred-thousand pound mobile homes...but again, that's the main family asset in many cases. They don't have much else of value. Without it they'd be destitute.

The waterways of the UK have thousands of long boats and barges that cost upwards of £20k - perhaps considerably more - but again, many in those communities live on their boats and could only afford them because the mooring is only a few grand a year, so in the long run it's way cheaper than buying even a small terraced house. And we don't call people who live in those rich, do we? 🙄