Housing with a 360 Degree Ocean View

"A floating city off the coast of San Francisco may sound like science fiction, but it could be reality in the not-too-distant future. The Seasteading Institute already has drawn up plans for the construction of a homestead on the Pacific Ocean.

One project engineer described the prototype as similar to a cruise ship, but from a distance the cities might look like oil-drilling platforms. According to the plans, the floating cities would not only look different from their land-based counterparts, but they might operate differently, too.

[A] floating city may be built in modular pieces so that city blocks and neighborhoods can be recombined to create new urban layouts. The idea of building cities on the sea is not new, he said, but the Seasteading Institute has come closer to realizing the goal than others...a prototype for the idea may be finished in as little as three years."