We've checked them out on the Columbia here in Oregon. It may be the place
your friend had in mind. The homes here range from small boat house shacks
to massive multi-storied luxury home in gated marinas. The scenes are
usually quite peaceful and scenic.

The aspect that put us off them is the slip fees. Short of finding that rare
home that owns it's own slip, you can pay between $450 and $900 per month
for the slip fee. That's a fee that NEVER goes away. It isn't tax deducible,
you can't sell it and it doesn't gain equity. The homes start at 35k and
we've seen them in the mid 400's. There are a LOT of them for sale right
now.

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A guy down the dock recently got back from a trip
out west somewhere. He was talking about some
river--maybe up around Washington state--where
they do a lot of logging, and move logs with barges,
etc. He said there were houses built on logs out
there, some of them two and three story, and they
were linked together via docks like subdivisions.
Does anyone know what they are called, or/and
if there's a good place to see pics of such things
online?