I was chucking the libs terms back at them. Lots of my friends live in trailers. Instead of moving somewhere else they add a shed in the back and extend the deck on the front or put walls on the once freestanding carport. A guy can have a pretty nice spacious house without loading tons of mortgage on his head.
Thanks for the clarification. Just about everyone out here starts small, too-with a barn, trailer, portable building, and starts adding rooms, decks/patios-but not until the property is fenced to keep stock from wandering, and deter predators, the garden space game-fenced and netted to keep out deer and birds, etc. I lease the few acre vaca place of an out-of-state owner who can’t afford to use it right now, so it is just rough, basic shelter-till I find a place to purchase and build a nest on-it was not intended for occupation in the winter...
Out in the country, you don’t have a city insisting you have inspections and follow a bunch of rules, so you can take your time, do a lot of work yourself and pay cash. You only have to have your well, septic/plumbing and electrical inspected by the county-most of my customers are people like that, and that is fine-they are decent people, they pay, no matter that it is not much, it keeps body and soul together.