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And you keep a toolbox by the bed with everything you need to repair the shitty grey plastic pipes when a joint lets go in the middle of the night. You can usually hear the small sound when it lets go and it will now wake you from a dead sleep. There was a class action lawsuit but it was settled before you even bought the trailer. Underside of the trailer is covered in mold from the leaks and the mud under it is never dry and mixed with sewage.
Oh, and you're working sixty hours a week for not enough money and supporting a family of four. Your spouse has untreated mental illness or a personality disorder and is unable to hold a job. Sometimes she keeps you up all day screaming while you're working graveyard, sleep deprivation, you think she does it on purpose.
The trailer park is built on a swamp so when it rains the septic backs up and the backyards are all full of sewage. Don't let the little kids play in puddles.
The trailer park owner gives you shit if you work on a vehicle in the driveway, but you ain't buying anything while you can keep these running. Sometimes you sit in your truck at the gas station for 15 minutes because you don't want to go home.
This sounds like personal experience... I know because it sounds almost exactly like my experience of trailer life for 3 years, aside from the kids. It was cheap, but I do not recommend it.
Also, you forgot the 96Kbps internet for $100 a month from ATT.
I've said, ever since, that I'd rather live in a cardboard box than a trailer. It was pure hell.
IIRC, NetZero was $25/mo., this was the aughts. There were some months I couldn't pay it.
There is very little I look on with fondness from back then. My twenties were the most miserable time in my life.
My time was from a couple years before and until a decent way into covid. People outside of the park were enjoying modern internet, we were stuck in the past. I used a Verizon jetpack which was awful, but good enough for remote work at least.
Not to mention, the park ended up being bought up by some big ass megacorp in a hostile takeover. They bought enough smaller shares to gain control, then fucked over the elderly woman who ran it prior who'd inherited it from her dad and raised prices just to meet inflation, not to make a profit. Her dad started the place in the 1920s. She only owned 40%, but was the largest individual percentage owner before the company managed to collect the other 60%. They literally said she had to start paying them $4000 a month to stay there or hit the road. She left for Oregon and never came back. Then they jacked up the prices for everyone else and the place started bleeding tenants, either not willing to pay more or sick of how management treated us like we were subhuman.
0/10 overall, do not recommend.
Ain't that the fuckin truth.