Do you experience:

• Recurrent excessive distress when separation from your yacht occurs or is anticipated?
  
• Persistent and excessive worry about losing, or possible harm befalling, your yacht?
  
• Persistent and excessive worry that an untoward event will lead to separation from your yacht (e.g., getting lost or being kidnapped)?
  
• Persistent reluctance or refusal to go to work or elsewhere because of fear of separation from your yacht?
  
• Repeated nightmares involving the theme of separation?
  
• Repeated complaints of physical symptoms (such as headaches, stomachaches, nausea, or vomiting) when separation from your yacht occurs or is anticipated?
  

If you answered yes to one or more of the above, you may suffer from separation anxiety. For those who find it difficult to leave their yacht behind, the following locations make excellent places to live as they allow you to keep one eye on your martini, and the other on your yacht.

Port Grimaud, France

Port Grimaud was purchased in 1962 by French architect François Spoerry. Spoerry designed this city on the French Riviera with the concept that buildings should exist in harmony with their environment. In order to accomplish this, Spoerry created a foundation for his city by developing an elaborate system of islands and canals out of what was once a swamp. With his creation, Spoerry intended for each person who owned a home in Port Grimaud to be able to moor their yacht right outside. The fact that cars are only allowed for deliveries in this “Provençal” Venice make the close proximity of ones yacht both a convenience and a luxury.