Posted on 09/26/2009 4:12:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ROFLMAO! Stolen.
Disparage? I thought this was an ad to move south.
I expect you’ll find some trailers anywhere they’re not zoned against, and where land prices haven’t been driven up by building restrictions.
You’d want lots of insulation in Pittsburg, though!
Do we actually have to pay to discover these AMAZING census facts?
Bulletin! Snow mostly falls in Winter!
bttt
Then why was Green Tree Financial based out of Minnesota? ; )
Then why was Green Tree Financial based out of Minnesota? ; )
I’ve seen some real nice “mobile homes” So what’s the big deal? A mobile home is not an indicator of poverty. I’ll bet most of these folks actually WORK for a living and pay TAXES. I wonder what percentage of “mobile home” dwellers voted for the current president whose name and racial preference escape my mind. Bottom line...people gotta live somewhere. How about they live where they want, in what they want, in the manner they want. Is this not a free land?
Well, duh!!! Many states in the North are just too cold for mobile homes. A cold climate ages a mobile home faster than a warm climate does. Which group of geniuses did this study?
Agreed. Nothing wrong with living within your means. It is widely recommended on this site. I own one, and I LOVE it. Way more house than I could have afforded without leveraging myself to the gills.....
They do better in the South’s weather, too, because they are not always insulated so well.
Which accounts for the fact that so many "winter Texans" from other states have mobile homes in South Texas.
True. Lots of retirees live in mobile home parks as an alternative to garden apartments that have stairs and less square footage to boot.
The whole "trailer trash" reputation comes from the fact that, in larger metropolitan areas, they are often the cheapest form of housing other than public housing. There were also a series of pulp novels in the 1950s that further spread the reputation of mobile homes as filled with promiscuity and crime.
My family lived in one as a kid while my parents built a house next to it...to be honest, i missed the coziness of it once we moved into the new house...not a great thing to live in when a hurricane is coming though ;)
Was until about 8 or 9 months ago. As I said, I sold "mobile homes" about 10 years ago, and many of them were much nicer than a site-built home costing twice or three times as much. We had one model specifically configured for a home theatre room, another with a NASCAR theme (the company had a car back then) and even a very nice triple-wide that'd make almost any family happy.
That’s okay Viking, the article is to slam us in the South, no biggie. It’s been going on for a long time. I remember my dear Mississippi born and bred Mom speaking in disgust about Hollywood’s phony Southern accents in movies, we’re talking those from the 20s and 30s on.
“Trailers” (single, double-wide and manufactured homes) are what some folks can afford and I happen to know a lot of those folks, wouldn’t take for their LOYAL friendship; they can set trotlines, hunt, trap, make something out of nothing, self-reliant. Ready and willing to help at the drop of a hat—and they know their neighbors too.
Same in California if they are built in 1980 or prior.
“Mobile homes will make up a significant part of the housing market in any place you can find significant rural poverty,” —Jacob Vigdor, public policy and economics professor at Duke University.
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Quick, somebody needs to nominate Professor Vigdor for the Nobel prize for the Bleeding Obvious.
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