Sooner or Later?

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I love the idea of living aboard but am quite young with little money. What I wonder is if, with my limited funds, it makes sense to buy a smaller boat(25-27ft range) to live aboard to start with or to save up lots and do it in the future with a bigger and better boat.

I suppose my worry is that if I started with a small, cheaper boat, I wouldn't be able to fill up my "bigger, better, next boat" kitty as I'd be spending that money on maintaining my own boat.

How do/did those who've lived aboard on smaller boats find it? did you find you were stuck to your first boat or was it not so much trouble transitioning to a bigger boat? Or perhaps you like your smaller boat so much that transitioning to a bigger boat is unthinkable?

I'm happily single, so I think living on a smaller boat would be fine, but things might change in the future or I might find it too confining for very long term, so I'm interested to know others experiences.

thanks in advance