Not a thing. the nicest people in the world live in them.

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 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 wrote:OP, I have fantasized about living in a trailer one day, traveling around the country and seeing everything. It seems so... freeing.

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.

OP, I have fantasized about living in a trailer one day, traveling around the country and seeing everything. It seems so... freeing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing. Home is where the heart is.

Agree.

x3.

Nothing. Unless there is a tornado.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing. Home is where the heart is.

Agree.

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.

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.

Who cares ? Life is short. You are more than what you live in.

Check out Paradise Cove in the Boo. MALIBU that is. Beats being homeless.


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Trailer trash is alive and well.

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 wrote:Nothing. Home is where the heart is.

Nothing. Home is where the heart is.

They actually look really nice on the inside. Also, most trailer parks don't have the "trailer" trash stereotype.