Why aren't we building home out at see?

[SleepingStandingUp]

There's a population crisis and a lack of affordable homes and space to build etc so how come more countries don't build out from their coasts, or actually out at see. Watching the world spin and virtually a solid half is just sea! Why aren't more countries claiming territory and building their own extensions?

Although to be fair, if I won the lottery I'd love to live in something akin to the Octonauts Octopod.

It would be too expensive. And difficult. And time-consuming.

Come on now... 🤦

There's loads of land to build on but no one wants to build affordable housing on it.

@SleepingStandingUp there isn't a land availability problem, there is a distribution of resources problem for most countries in the world with housing shortages. This down to decisions, choices , economics and politics rather than that we don't have enough land.

What could possibly go wrong.

amp.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/01/sands-slip-england-crumbling-coasts-erosion-rising-sea-levels

Monaco has done it....at a cost

Architects are on it OP

www.dezeen.com/2020/02/04/powerhouse-company-sustainable-floating-office-rotterdam/

Also the MN boat parking thread diagrams would be far too complicated. Would need headings, windspeed, wind direct, tide times....

See?

We (in the UK) actually have plenty of houses, just in places where people don't want to live. No need to get your sou'wester on just yet

We not build in see because it wet. also sharks.

@Whammyyammy

We would all get this proof of delivery from My Heremes......🤔

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Not sure I've ever seen a 100% YABU vote before

I want to build my house on a cloud.

Firstly, have you not heard of Tsunamis?

Secondly sea water (salt) is incredibly corrosive and no structure can survive for long, at least not without constant upkeep. Wood rots away. Metal rusts.

Salt does not go well with building structures.

A sailor went to see see see
If he could build on the sea sea sea
But all he could see see see
Was nothing but sea sea sea

@BrickingIt44

We not build in see because it wet. also sharks.

See also : killer whales and being in a fish toilet.

Spongebob is that you?

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Because the sea claims it back. Places like the Palm Island on Dubai have huge huge structural problems they’re just good at keeping it out of the press (I’ve seen some of the paperwork though).

Building on flood plains hasn’t worked out too well either, building on cliff tops has led to people trapped in unsellable homes.

Plus there is loooooads of room left inland. Could get rid of some of the billion golf courses around me for a start.

You can’t really think building in the sea is the answer. I assume you’re in the pub and have been drinking since lunch. Maybe turn that razor-sharp mind to the troubles in the Middle East and let us know what solutions you come up with?

@EmpressCixi 🤣👏

In all seriousness, I do know OAPs that have retired to cruise ships. It’s apparently cheaper than a active retirement home plus the foreign travel is built in. So I do think there is a market for more OAPs selling up their land based homes, and sending them off in floating cities to travel the world in retirement.

There’s tonnes of brownfield sites - empty warehouses, etc etc that could be repurposed first. If we get to the point where the only alternative is to build out at sea then the world has far bigger problems - we won’t be able to sustain the population for long.

Have you ever studied this matter ? And while you're at it - also study the feasibility of bridge between England and Northern Ireland , which I think was a Boris Johnson idea related to Brexit (it does not seem to be going ahead).