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...doublewidetrailerville...
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Your sneer is misplaced. Many areas of the country are predominately manufactured housing. This is due to lots of reasons, such as soil composition and terrain features. They aren’t *trailer parks*, although lots of senior housing is in such configurations.

They are not necessarily inexpensive nor cheaply built, either. Nor are they all narrow and flat-roofed. Most have some sort of footers and foundations, even without basements. Neither do they house miscreants. Most are privately owned, not mobile and not on rented pads.

Mine comes with exactly as much land as an elderly person would want to maintain. I have privacy, wildlife, (too many) trees and it is not a *lot*. So far, it is more than adequate for my needs and wants and not much different than a ranch-style home.

I am 5 minutes from wonderful natural lakes and rock formations and surrounded by forest. I’ve lived in mountains and no longer find them, the humid, frost-pocket, flood-prone valleys and the steep, winding roads my particular cup of tea, especially at my age. Ridge-top winds are also a challenge, as are extremely deep wells in times of drought. I have visited deserts and find the landscape monotonous and ugly, while 120-degrees of dry heat perfectly describes an oven. I adore vacationing on islands, but the people born and raised on them are well-aware of the vulnerabilities and limitations. Not that all island-dwellers ae fortunate enough to occupy the beaches.

I spent 45 years in a 100+ year-old home with many additions. on 80 pristine acres of rolling (and sometimes steep) hills. Stick-built is not necessarily best or even comparatively better than manufactured, especially those built more recently.

Neither do I resent California and its *perfect weather* that includes flood, earthquakes and fires. They do have lovely beaches and the rock slides that come with steep coastal lands. I’ve noticed, though, how quick the authorities are there to close beaches and restrict both beach use and access. Not that the vast majority of California is coastal or has beach access nor that the majority of the coastal counties residents have any hope of living on one.

What I resent is the idea that living in a particular geography endows the residents with superior intellect or morality, to say nothing of ethics. The same arrogance is found in abundance in urban conclaves throughout the country, most with winter and no real beaches.

It is leftists everywhere who denigrate the middle and lower middle class in the rural areas everywhere. They resent us because we do not cave to their inflated self-esteem and fanciful notions of utopia. They also resent that we occupy the land they prefer be left wild as nature preserves for the few times in their lives when they _might_ wish to visit. Oh, they dress that up with *needs* of wildlife, but, like all progs, it is really out of selfishness. Note that in the past 4 months hordes of Californians, Oregonians and Washingtonians have been frantically purchasing land and homes in the interior.

Finally, I wonder how much manufactured housing is in California? Have they banned that, too, or just enacted so many regulations that the cost puts it out of reach for the despised masses?