Its always been kind of a dream of mine to walk out the back door and down to my boat at a dock.<br /><br />I've lived in the same house with my family since I was born, it was built the same year I was born. We are in a middle to upperclass neaghorhood, its a nice house with two and a half baths and four bedrooms. At one time we where the biggest house on the street, but many are tearing theirs down and building bigger ones. We have always been happy here and I never thought we would move.<br /><br />Well, a few days ago my dad comes home and tells us about a house he looked at, its on the Merrimack(sp) river with a large dock. Its a 30min boat ride for the ocean. The house is older, but <br />bigger then what we have now. It only has a one car garuge but their is room to go bigger. Being it was on the water I thought it must be packed in with other houses real close, but the sourounding houses are farther away them where we live now.<br /><br />My mom is going to look at it tomorow, and if she likes it, we're their.<br /><br />For those of you who live on the water, what are the downsides?