Reply #24: What bothers me [View All]

[laundry_queen]

as someone who once lived in a trailer - most of them are every bit as nice as a 'real' house. And you can get a lot of options that you could never afford in a real house - large walk in closets, ensuites with jacuzzi tubs, lots of extra square footage...The only downsides of owning one are 1. Tornadoes and 2. They don't keep their value like stick-built homes. I find that a lot of towns and cities shun trailers but then lament how all the kids are moving away because they can't afford the housing. Where I live, they are trying to come up with all kinds of new housing developments that are going to keep the young people from moving away. Trailers are never mentioned. As it is, homeowners in the area are FREAKING out because there is row housing going up. They want their McMansions shielded from anything 'lesser' than them. It all disgusts me. Trailers are convenient, very affordable, and nowadays are built fairly well. Most trailer parks in the next town over from me are very clean, well kept and it is ordinary people who live there. Trailer trash is about as descriptive of people living in trailers as is any other sterotypical slur descriptive of any other stereotyped group.