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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Rikki Loftus

‘I save £3,000 a month after leaving dry land to live on a narrowboat’

A father-of-five who had been looking at London bedsits after his divorce now saves more than £3,000 a month and has the freedom to have his children come and stay after renovating and moving into a 50-year-old narrowboat.

James Posner, 44, a commercial property sector surveyor, documents his life on the boat through YouTube videos and said the narrowboat lifestyle is “London’s best kept secret” amid the cost-of-living crisis.

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