People live in mobile homes because they can't afford to live in regular houses. And they sure as hell can't afford to subsidize a steel-reinforced concrete bunker with failsafe power supply, potable water, foodstuffs, blah blah blah, yada yada yada. Besides, in low lying areas, a bunker would be at risk for flooding in these sorts of situations.
The solution to the problem of mobile home parks is to grow the damned economy so that people can afford to live in regular homes.
Of course, an awful lot of the people who can't afford to live in anything better than a mobile home park are either mentally retarded [or, if not clinically "retarded," at least substantially to the left of center of the bell curve], substance abusers, or single women who keep spreading their legs and making babies with worthless louts who won't marry them, so that, in many of these situations, there's not a whole heckuva lot that even a growing economy can do to improve their fortunes.
Those are very crass and unkind remarks.
Some of the mobile home and module home neighborhoods in my area start at over $100,000.
This is making me want to puke. We try to teach teens in school and they REFUSE to listen, study, do homework or learn much of anything useful. Upon leaving school, the find they cannot command much of a salary. Then, they end up living in mobile homes. Now, it's someone ELSE'S fault. Pure garbage. The solution is to force the youth to learn in school. Either give them hard labor in the sun, or study in school. Only psychos will choose to work in the hot sun (which they richly deserve). And yes, I know there are exceptions to the rule, but VERY few.
"Besides, in low lying areas, a bunker would be at risk for flooding in these sorts of situations."
I realize the problem with flooding but there are many "above ground" bunkers in Oklahoma because in many areas they can't build below ground level like Florida.
There aren't any basements in Oklahoma either. If there are, they are few and inbetween.
Are you aware that many in the military live in mobile homes for the same reason? (The men and women that are protecting your ass). Are you aware that many of our retired, who have worked hard all their life live in RVs that cost over 100,000 and put many homes to shame , so that they can travel? You have insulted a lot of people here.
To me there is nothing wrong with living in a mobile home until you can line up the cash you want for a house --- mobile homes can be sensible --- and anyone who can buy land near the coast could certainly afford land further inland if they chose. You don't have to put a mobile home near the beach if it's your permanent home.
You obviously haven't seen every mobile home park. My great-aunts lived in a retirement park near Phoenix which was all mobile homes --- very nice place --- all retired people, very friendly and the park was very tidy. They even had the areas under the trailers dug out so they could be at ground level --- no stairs. Many of these people liked to travel and didn't feel like maintaining the big houses they once owned and wanted their retirement money more freed up for the fun stuff.
You obviously haven't seen some of the mobile home communities in the Punta Gorda area.
The mobile home park at Paradise Beach north of Malibu, CA, is on some of the most expensive real estate in the world. Lovely mobiles and very vibrant residents. You'd be fortunate to be able to afford living there.
It is in very poor taste to make such a comment at this time -- given the reports from Punta Gorda.
I once lived in a Mobile Home Park (Arizona), then bought a piece of land to move my Mobile Home to.
After I moved the Mobile Home, I saw a funnel cloud about 5 miles away. I think it did touch down and do some damage.
To put a tag on anyone who lives in a Mobile Home is not very American. In the part of Georgia I am in, some Catholic Sisters live in a Mobile home so they can help those who they help (the community they serve is mostly in the Mobile Home park).
They are single women, but they certainly do not spread their legs and produce babies all the time.
So your remarks are very insulting, in more ways than one.