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I'd take an offer to work from home on a house boat and go sailing around the world I feel like I'd end up making a lot of new customs officer friends XD
I'd take a little canal boat in Amsterdam. Though learning Dutch sounds like a PITA.
It's probably the easiest language for a native English speaker to learn
It is. Our grammar rules are nonsensical and Dutch is useless outside of the Netherlands and Belgium.
You probably picture that as a cheap bohemian lifestyle but these things will cost you like 2M€ to buy + untold yearly fees lol.
That's significantly more than I expected. Also, I probably wouldn't want to deal with the toilet situation. Would probably be novel for a couple weeks and get old quick.
I might be slightly exaggerating depending on how big it is and location but yeah everything in Amsterdam is crazy expensive. The toilet situation is pretty normal these days I think? I think they get plugged into the normal sewer systems, the days of it just falling into the canals are long gone (but that's also a part of the yearly expenses along with mooring costs, property taxes and so on). Also you can't even mortgage these things normally because banks consider them high risk so you get less advantageous terms (higher costs, bigger down payment, etc).
Did a quick check and yeah I was massively exaggerating, you can get some in the 600k to 1.3M€ for small ones with mooring in the center, which is still pretty unaffordable for normal people but not as outlandish as I made it out to be. The points about additional costs to the city and the mortgage stuff remains though.