Good article but does not answer the question regarding an address for registering a driving licence, also needed for insurances etc. I know some people use relatives but this would not be an option for us and is something that keeps putting us off looking into living aboard full time or even our other option which is living in a caravan.

pearley said
Bill

Try reading this:

http://www.canalworld.net/foru…..ntry823589

 

You may have to register first.

 

Regards

Pete

Cheers Pete, looks like the world of business is realising that not everyone wants to live in bricks and mortar. Certainly a bit of food for thought there 

very interesting topic with good answers thanks for those who input with solutions to newbies it is much appreciated

Glad this post has been brought back up as i can now give a little more info. We have now sold our house and are temporarily living in a static caravan awaiting starting our adventure, we pick up the new caravan tomorrow. We have decided to go down the caravan route as we did not want to put all our money into a newish boat, would not have been comfortable on an older boat as i am not in the least mechanically minded. 

As far as the address we are using a close relative as a postal address and have not had any problems with any change of address tho as we are going to be touring the country we may have to pay a premium on the car insurance. The caravan insurance actually has accepted us as no fixed address and living in the caravan and have had an extremely competetive price. The doctors have kept us registered with them until we resettle and need to register as a temp patient if we need any appointments and dentist is the same.

Driving licence and passport now allow you to have a postal address as we already held, tho not sure on anyone getting a new one would be the same. 

will post up if we come across any problems.

deckhand said
HI,  We live on our boat in a marina.  Whilst we have most of our post sent to the in-laws address, to register with the doctors, we had to have an address within the area of the doctors.   To do this, we had to register with the local Post Office. (we could not use the marina address as at that time there were no residential moorings at the marina)  This gives us an address and costs just £4 per month for the both of us.  We still have our post sent to the inlaws however just out of choice.   We have just been successful in obtaining a Residential mooring at our marina so from May, our address is the marina address. 

 

Obviously, someone who is CC’ing, would have different issues to overcome (i.e. registering at Doctors) so maybe someone who is doing that could advise.

 

This is what this continuous cruiser thinks:

https://livingonanarrowboat.co.uk/forum/introduce-yourself/health-care/