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Some folks can't help living like this. It wasn't their fault! Is this how most "Baby Boomers" will have to retire??
I understand that the meaning is not dirty but it has a very naegative connotation. Using a monotone voice it only becomes more serious of negativity. Some people have very nice mobile homes trailers or fabricated homes. We may have been misconceived by outwsiders such as movie makers and producers that people living in a trailer are associated with bad things and that is not true.....I guess those same people believe that the $40,000 to $150,000 and more handmade motorcycles belong to gangs..........We as a civil society need to grow up and smell the roses.....unless that person is perfect...
I live in a house but lived in a mobile home park for 30 years. I always have ignored negative opinions of "trailer" living. I lived in a very nice mobile home park with yard on all 4 sides, 2 car carport, 9' x 15' three season room, bath and a half and 1,100 sq. feet. I moved for safety concerns, closer to my sister, but I really liked my mobile home.
As Tek Freek says, my neighbor down the street, with old tires by the garage, junk all around, looks way worse than the oldest small mobile home (10' x 50") in the park where I lived.
I have a brother who's house core is a trailer. You can't tell that anymore. It is now fully enclosed and is simply part of his regular house.
The only real negative to living in a trailer is that they typically are not tied down to a solid foundation so in severe weather, they are more prone to being destroyed. We joke about them being tornado magnets but really, it is just that it doesn't take as strong a storm to destroy them as it does a stick house firmly tied to the foundation and roof. That's why people who live in a trailer are advised to get out of it in a strong storm and go to a better shelter - in a tornado, even dive into a ditch is better. Your chances of survival are better. In places where such storms don't happen, a well insulated trailer can be a good living abode that is perfectly safe.
I lived in one when in college and it was quite comfortable. The park was also well kept and not junky at all.
I have heard others spoken of referring to them as trailer trash or a Walmart-whatever and understand that what they trying to say is that the person being spoke of is coarse and ignorant. It may be true of the person being spoke of but the labels do not evoke the image of such a person in my mind. I guess we do not have a common frame of reference as where you shop and what you live in doesn't define who you are.
There are certainly trashy people who live in trailers....as well as in apartments and houses. However, not everyone who lives in trailers are trashy. There are some great looking mobile homes out there that I sure would be proud to live in!!!
I think this is just another silly term that people use to try a lump a whole bunch of people under one pointless category. Like the term "Baby Boomers" made up by the media and marketing industries. I for one dislike labeling people like they were canned goods.
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