what is exactly wrong with living in a double wide?
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Anonymous
| They actually look really nice on the inside. Also, most trailer parks don't have the "trailer" trash stereotype. |
Anonymous
| Nothing. Home is where the heart is. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| I have two cousins who are retired and travel the world this way. They are from flyover country, and are much happier than me, with my fancy pants upbringing. |
Anonymous
| Trailer trash is alive and well. |
Anonymous
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I saw a show tonight where a man was building a very nice trailer park on his rural land. He is making $100,000 a year on one park, this new one will bring in $150,000 a year. He and his wife sold their home, bought a trailer to live at the park in and said they were happy as all get out. This was in Maine.
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Anonymous
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I lived in one for about 4 years. I bought some land across the road from my family's farm and it came with a double wide one it. I lived there while we saved money to build a new home. We did updates to it (it was manufactured in 1994) and added laminate flooring, a new hearth for the fireplace, all new appliances, new carpet, added a full length deck. The resale on it was great and even with the mortgage including all the land, I think we paid about $400 a month while we were building.
They are horrible with efficiency. Mine was on a poured foundation so it had a crawlspace like a house and we had access to add insulation, but it was still bad. All things considered, I'd do it again. |
Anonymous
Agree. |
Anonymous
| Nothing. Unless there is a tornado. |
Anonymous
x3. |
Anonymous
| OP, I have fantasized about living in a trailer one day, traveling around the country and seeing everything. It seems so... freeing. |
Anonymous
A double wide is a prefab home, not an RV. Basically, it is two trailers (usually 10-12' wide) patched together on the lot, hence the term double wide. It could be economically freeing, but you are not driving it around. |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
| Not a thing. the nicest people in the world live in them. |