Does South Carolina Have Alot of Mobile Homes Like North Carolina do??

[Rahlee boy]

Unless you have been all over a particular state and visited every city, it's kind of hard to say that a whole state has a lot of mobile homes without statistical data. Some areas of this state may have trailers, the other areas may have no trailers at all.

[Cedge1]

Am I detecting "No Love" for those hard working blue collar stiffs who put a roof over their families the best way they can? I'd rather see mobile/manufactured housing than to have all those proud lower income folks sitting around in governemnt housing and living of the dole. They may not be rich, but working to pay a mortgage is still an honorable thing.

[WiseManOnceSaid]

The have made mobile homes in Mt. Pleasant unlawful to put on your property. You can have one that's been grandfathered in on the property, but once you replace it, you have to either put up a stick built home or a modular, they have almost completely eliminated mobile homes in Mt. Pleasant.

[Cedge1]

Wiseman...
Makes sense for the coastal areas. Hurricanes and tornados just seem to have a natural affinity for mobile homes.

[mrpeatie]

The problem is not mobile homes of today per se- it is that mobile homes have traditionally not been fully secured to the ground. And stick built houses were typically not much better but they a tleast had more mass. Currently they are doing a much better job devising ways to anchor mobile (and modular homes.) And many modulars are pretty similar to mobile homes- they simply lift them and set them down as opposed to driving up and leaving the home with the wheels/axels still attached.

I actually have a funny mobile home story courtesry of my first boss. We had a project in his home town- cannot remeber if it was Varnville or Hampton but the city limits are ringed with trailers but not in the city. My boss' father was the former mayor and his mother convinced them to zone trailers out of city limits because she and others felt it detracted from the ability to sell themselves to outside business and created more problems. So the town rewrites their zoning to accomplish this. And the end result was literally a mobile home doughnut with the town as the center. My boss always got a big kick out of this since before the trailers were fairly well scattered but the result was basically massing them all in a tighter area where it was much more noticeable. He pointed it out on the way into and out of town.