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Bugg4h families, it's because they're reproducing that more housing's needed!Graham_Devon wrote: »Maybe the childless should have to live in them, leaving the proper houses for families
Still a good idea Hames?!
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Don't know whether this is a fairly local thing to me, or more widespread throughout the UK, but there are quite a few trailer parks around here- a lot are used for temporary housing for those on social housing lists.
Agree its not the type of housing but the land cost in the UK whih i the issue- and therefore the obvious solution is flat blocks not container homes- unless they are stacked 30 high We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
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Aren't the trailer parks the US equivalent of our traveller sites?
But then that is generally a lifestyle people are born to, are trailer parks in the US more about anyone who is down on their luck?
Love to be a snowbird:)
Trailer parks are interesting.
They range from the stereotypical "trailer park trash" sites as discussed on the thread already, through to very nice "retirement villages", with amazing facilities and organised activities, and everything in between.
The "trashy" trailer parks are for the down on their luck, unemployed, extremely low income, etc.......
Not nice, but realistically no worse than some dodgy UK council estates or tower blocks.
The cheapest places, in the worst locations, would cost around £3000 to £5000 to buy the trailer, and the monthly land rent would be around £75.
They look like this......
The best places are quite upmarket, with swimming pools, restaurants on site, nice people, etc, and just as comfortable as a house.
Prices would be more like £40,000, and land rents of £150 and up.
They are quite often set up as retirement villages, and are completely stigma free.
They look more like this.......
Of course you can also get a long term lease of a plot of land in a larger park (like a small suburb), and put one on it as a permanent home. These are relatively stigma free.
£25,000 or so, and a monthly service charge.
Like this......
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Those are just mobile home parks Hamish ... we have lots of those in the UK. But they're expensive. My first home was one of those (30'x10'), but you need a personal loan to buy one (with a larger %age deposit than a mortgage), then the site owners are quite often little h1tlers in enforcing not only the rules, but variations of the rules they suddenly invent. Also, the site mine was on was cleared and brand new vans put on... if I'd still been there I'd have been given notice.
Where I am right now, mobile homes to live in can easily cost £100k for an old one.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Those are just mobile home parks Hamish ... we have lots of those in the UK. But they're expensive. My first home was one of those (30'x10'), but you need a personal loan to buy one (with a larger %age deposit than a mortgage), then the site owners are quite often little h1tlers in enforcing not only the rules, but variations of the rules they suddenly invent. Also, the site mine was on was cleared and brand new vans put on... if I'd still been there I'd have been given notice.
Where I am right now, mobile homes to live in can easily cost £100k for an old one.
Interesting.
But I query your prices...... Does that include the land?
Heres a UK dealer with something for sale from them that looks perfectly livable for £24,000........ http://www.joalleisure.com/mobile-home-details.html?id=2056
How much would site fees be to put it in a mobile home park?“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Interesting.
But I query your prices...... Does that include the land?
£120k
There are cheaper ones here around £30k I think, but these are literally caravans, and they are on holiday sites not residential sites: the annual service charges are iro £8k and you have to move out for several weeks per year (usually january & feb) for site maintainence. Think they are mostly aimed at investors but I now some people who live in them.We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
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Mobile Homes have become extremely expensive. Plenty of areas round here which have their own facilities / rules / wardens etc, and mostly filled with retired people, many of whom enjoy the lifestyle.
We have no "trailer" parks like the US does because we have a welfare system. No doubt without a welfare system, we would have a lot more trailer parks.
At the moment it will never happen though, as you'd have the situation where those claiming benefits are housed, and those working are in trailers. Little too far on the annoying scale for most I should think.0 -
The joys of living on the South coast- old people come here to die
Haven't seen you about for ages GD We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
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Makes a change I supposeGraham_Devon wrote: »Not really been around, been stupidly busy! Hope all is good in Dev land We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. Carl Jung
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