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I was discussing this stigma with a work friend of mine. I never really actually thought about it but yes I could see how it would be hard for him. Personally, I'd try to put the fact off as long as possible.
Now I admit trailer hood can mean many things. Could mean a pop-up pulled by your Gremlin or in his case, a $75,000 fifth wheel pulled by a $50,000 rig fully paid off. Guy has cash and mostly blows it on multiple vacations and traveling. Now he could buy a house tomorrow but just hasn't found the right girl to settle down with. I laugh and tell him because he lives in a trailer! In all seriousness, I envy his life. I haven't been thinking full blown trailer but smaller house and traveling more.
Should he buy a house to improve his "settling down" potential from women? He is 33, single, no kids.
What would your first impressions be? How much stigma we talking here?
I would think if a guy has a house = responsible, an apartment = getting his life together, a trailer = ????. What do women say?
I was discussing this stigma with a work friend of mine. I never really actually thought about it but yes I could see how it would be hard for him. Personally, I'd try to put the fact off as long as possible.
Now I admit trailer hood can mean many things. Could mean a pop-up pulled by your Gremlin or in his case, a $75,000 fifth wheel pulled by a $50,000 rig fully paid off. Guy has cash and mostly blows it on multiple vacations and traveling. Now he could buy a house tomorrow but just hasn't found the right girl to settle down with. I laugh and tell him because he lives in a trailer! In all seriousness, I envy his life. I haven't been thinking full blown trailer but smaller house and traveling more.
Should he buy a house to improve his "settling down" potential from women? He is 33, single, no kids.
What would your first impressions be? How much stigma we talking here?
I would think if a guy has a house = responsible, an apartment = getting his life together, a trailer = ????. What do women say?
in his case, a $75,000 fifth wheel pulled by a $50,000 rig fully paid off. Guy has cash and mostly blows it on multiple vacations and traveling. Now he could buy a house tomorrow but just hasn't found the right girl to settle down with...
Should he buy a house to improve his "settling down" potential from women? He is 33, single, no kids.
He should definitely not buy a house until he meets a woman who wants to buy it with him. The house is her territory -- she should get a 51% say in which house they choose.
He sounds like he has his life together far more than most guys his age. If he can't get dates, it's not because of where he lives.
Unless maybe he is trying to date women who don't understand financial planning? Maybe that is where he is going wrong.
He is living this way completely by choice. He is a site supervisor/assistant supervisor/quality control officer for construction projects. His company is all over so he can take temp jobs almost where he chooses. Also, he can "grow roots" almost anywhere if he so chooses. His grand plan was to snowbird but the south just doesn't pay according to him. I suppose the company pays according to cost of living. So he spends his winters in a trailer up here in the great white northeast.
He can pull a date here and there. No Fabio but he can hold his own. Just that it is true, there is that hesitation from women when he says, "So yeah, my house has wheels."
I ain't buying no house until I settle / married so the stigma about buying a house while single means responsible to me it is so dumb -_- I'll just never understand it
I originated not quite of the trailer park, but of a trailer out in the boonies.
My life can be quite the plethora of Jeff Foxworthy jokes.
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He is 33, single, no kids.
