Do you look down at people who live in trailers? Is it okay to ridicule people who live in trailers?

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58. Well, some can't resist, but smart people who aren't wealthy themselves

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might wonder if some of those in nicely maintained MHs might be as or a lot more well to do than them. Because some are.

Of course, although we can name a few, most are not sitting on a fortune. Very common is a need to live independently and nicely on less money than before. Retirement, forced or otherwise, after medical bills cleaned out savings is a very common story. These days, selling "the house" and buying a MH in a nice neighborhood of people of middle class backgrounds typically leaves a good amount to stand squarely on their own feet and enjoy life with. Someone we know of rented out the big house after divorce, and moved into a MH, to finance education for new lives for herself and her daughter.

Of course there are the vacation MHs whose owners have their main home elsewhere. Lots of those.

It really matters whether MHs and the neighborhoods they're in tend to be low-income rentals or are mainly owner-occupied. A quick glance is usually enough to guess. But a lot of those clearly very modest may also be nice family communities. Lol, though, remembering a couple in the back woods we ran across while looking for our own "fish camp" that I would not care to visit alone. "Deliverance" comes to mind.

But, different people make different choices. Including the many who live without a nickel to spare in "respectable" subdivision homes because that's what's important to them, or declining apartment buildings in declining neighborhoods that people in straitened circumstances may choose because they don't realize that MHs can be a way to set their lifestyle standards higher.