what is exactly wrong with living in a double wide?

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Anonymous wrote:My parents have a place in a retirement community in Arizona where all the homes are technically trailers. They bought a nice double-wide model and they split their time between their very nice (non-trailer) home in the midwest and the AZ place. Dad's a retired exec with a masters degree.

They like to mess with me because they know the image trailer parks have in some parts of the country, so they'll joke about how their double-wide is my legacy. I just roll my eyes.

Your folks are awesome. They do what they like and don't care about what others think. And now you have an awesome retirement home in a few years.

[Anonymous]

Here are floorplans for some classy looking double-wides. The square footage range from 1456 sf to 2624 sf.

http://www.solitairehomes.com/models/double-wide/floorplans.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I prefer living in a van down by the river

I love you.

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If you are happy and safe, who cares?

[Anonymous]

My BIL owns a park and it's full of retired old ladies.

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The only thing I have to say, coming from a more rural part of the country and having spent some time in them, is that they are a suck when it comes to heating and cooling. Freezing in the winter and hot in the summer. Very little insulation. You can also hear a lot through the sides - road noise, people, wind.

[Anonymous]

Grew up in one. We didn't live in a trailer park - had our own large piece of land in an extremely rural area (desert). I have no association with that kind of home with anything trashy from my childhood. I'm from a family of 9, and I only have good memories of our home growing up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with you OP.

It's not the same as those trashy trailer parks like in the movie "8 Mile."

I love double wide trailers. I would much rather reside in one of those than my crappy apt.

At least I would have no shared walls and it would be detached from my neighbors. I could have my own washer and dryer and front porch and private parking area.

The trailer parks around here even have a swimming pool, playground and community room.

Where are you?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is absolutely nothing wrong with it at all.

I live near a place with some trailer park communities, though, and the reason they get a bad name around here is that they are filled with racist scum. The kids are exposed to that, and my neighbor's lovely adopted black kids have had a hard time in their local public school from harassment from the trailer park kids. I won't send my kids to those schools because I don't want them to pick up that way of thinking. So there is that.

I am this PP -- and to be clear, lots of nice people live in those trailer parks too, but there is a reason they have a bad reputation. People like those picking on my neighbors' kids cloud the perception for all the perfectly lovely people who also live in double wides. If you look at the crime map in my area, for example, the trailer parks are hotbeds. Doesn't mean there aren't lots of really nice people there or that trailers aren't just fine, but if needed to live in one I would try to get one out in the country near real houses and not in a park.

May be filled with racists where you are, but not where I grew up. and I think "trailer trash" is one of the most offensive, classist phrases in the world. Literally calling people trash because of their financial limitations. Disgusting.

I wish we had a clap function! I am in total agreement with you.

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There is some differences. High end trailer parks do not tend to have the serial killer folk in them and seem down right cute. There was some trailer park that I visited when I was little Buttonwood that was a vacation trailer place and it was cute. Also a friend has a trailer outside Ocean City New Jersey and everyone is very nice and has normal jobs etc. Then there are the low end ones where the trailers are falling apart and have sketchy people. On another note has anyone seen the show on "Little Houses"--love it and some of these little 320 sq ft houses are super cute and people have them in these beautiful areas with incredible views. A little space sort of forces you not to buy junk you don't need. something to be said for that.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing. Unless there is a tornado.

This.

[Anonymous]

Your neighbors for starters

[Anonymous]

Scented candles are trashy, as are heels paired with jeans, but trailer homes are not.

Interesting, DCUM.

Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scented candles are trashy, as are heels paired with jeans, but trailer homes are not.

Interesting, DCUM.

Interesting.

None of those things are trashy. They are only trashy to obnoxious assholes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Scented candles are trashy, as are heels paired with jeans, but trailer homes are not.

Interesting, DCUM.

Interesting.

None of those things are trashy. They are only trashy to obnoxious assholes.

And I shout that you're all fakes
And you should have seen the look on your face
And I guess that's what it takes
When comparing your bellyaches