# Would you live on a floating city? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 18, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-a-floating-city/245750 "2004-05-18T12:54:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-a-floating-city/245750/1 "2004-05-18T12:54:51Z")
Or, more specifically [this city](http://www.freedomship.com/)? This was on tv here some time ago and I thought about starting a thread then but completely forgot. My first thought was: no way. Then, I thought about it some more and came to the following conclusion: no way! Would you live in this, or a similar, “floating city”? Is this even remotely economically viable? Who’s likely to move to a place like this? ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-a-floating-city/245750/2 "2004-05-18T13:08:37Z")
Nice conceptual design…However, unless parked in a bay or some protected inlet…mother nature will certainly prevail…No way that rig will last a huge mid-atlantic storm… ---
**Author:** ![Frumious\_Bandersnatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Frumious\_Bandersnatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frumious_Bandersnatch)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-a-floating-city/245750/3 "2004-05-18T13:09:01Z")
This would be more my style. Well…if I had any style. [http://www.residensea.com/onboard/](http://www.residensea.com/onboard/) ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-a-floating-city/245750/4 "2004-05-18T13:34:14Z")
And my style would be **Armada** , the floating city in China Mieville’s excellent book [The Scar](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345444388/qid=1084887056/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/002-6025303-4092810?v=glance&s=books&n=507846). I thought that was what the thread was about before I read the post, but then I have a strange outlook on things. A great read. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-a-floating-city/245750/5 "2004-05-18T16:24:18Z")
It is an interesting idea, but fearing major storms, terrorist attacks (it would be a nice target, one HUGE ship, lots and lots of people) etc… would make me change my mind. Also, I don’t think I’d like the isolation so much. Want to get away to the mountains for the weekend? Too bad. ---
**Author:** ![3.885AM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/58956e/32.png) [@3.885AM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3.885AM)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-a-floating-city/245750/6 "2004-05-18T16:32:37Z")
How can this be anything other than an investor scam? They never mention where the power comes from to run this thing, they had shown the vessel as being driven by a large number of electric motors, but they never explained where the electricity comes from. In anything more than a light breeze the wind load on this thing would be huge. I have visions of this thing crumpled up on a shoal somewhere, as a sort of artificial island, serving as a sea bird rookery, so at least some good may come of it. ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-live-on-a-floating-city/245750/7 "2004-05-18T16:53:41Z")
In answer to the question… _WOULD_ I live on a “city at sea”? You betcha… the example we have doesn’t look like the winning entry, though…