Oct. 02 Better Homes and Gardens has an article....sm

[Myra]

on a couple who wanted to downsize before retirement and they bought a manufactured home and put it in a mobile home park. It was an interesting article, if anyone is interested. The park was beautiful. It was in California. Of course, there is no equivalent to anything like that right now where I live. Maybe there will be by the time I retire.

[Peggy]

I just read the article you referred to and I wish a lot more people would read it. Did you notice the former occupations of the couple who bought into the mobile home community? The wife was a clinical psychologist and hubby was a medical doctor. That certainly breaks the image of "trailer trash, doesn't it? Their house and the surrounding grounds were very nice. I'll bet we're going to start seeing more and more people "turning on" to manufactured housing - it's just a matter of changing the image and running off local Nazi zoning boards.

[Myra]

sold a 4,000-something square foot home to downsize to the manufactured home.

If I had money and wanted to invest or start some sort of business, I believe I would check into building a mobile home park like that one around here. It was really nice.

[Peggy]

Yes, that would be a good idea, but - - - again - - - - you'd first have to battle the Nazis on the Zoning Board who are heavily "influenced" (or is that "influen$ed") by the site-built developers. It takes lots of money to do this, and it's not a matter of how many people might want to buy into such a housing development (I agree that the community featured in Better Homes looked very nice!) - you'd also have to battle the ignoramuses out there living in tract housing that is shoddily built who are deceiving themselves that they are the ELITE and don't want "trailer trash" next door.

Which only proves that everybody has to look down on somebody else in order to delude themselves that they are the upper crust. These tract-house dwellers don't realize that the brick-sided-one-acre-lot-custom-built-homeowners don't want tract housing in their area. It just keeps going up the food-chain.