NOT EVERYONE WHO LIVES IN TRAILER PARKS ARE "TRAILER TRASH"!!!

Yes, I live in a piece of shit trailer, in a trailer park. We just try to make the best of it. And there are legitimate reasons why.

I had to laugh...I went outside to smoke a cigg. and what do I see? The neighbor to the trailer park I live in. Is putting up a privacy fence. I guess he doesn't want his renters to see through the tiny little area between the garage and the house, and have to look at, God forbid...A trailer park. So I have two big dogs, (Pits to be exact) and we don't have much grass in the front yard, and they do not provide a watering system for the park, so we have to water our yard off of the County system. The County charges you sewer charges for every ounce of water you use, whether it goes down the sewer or not. Many of us can not afford to water our yards as a result. It's mostly people on fixed incomes, people like us, who ended up here, because we refuse to live in something we really can't afford, and yes some folks who are "trailer trash."

Due to medical conditions, my husband and I can not do much with the yard, and must hire someone, or try and get our son to do it. (Yeah right!) No, we don't have a shed for our "outside" stuff, so it is stuffed in between the front porch and the house for easy access, but I guess is an eyesore to some uppity people. We try to keep it neat and organized, but there is not much room, and we also have to consider my husband's back, which could go out, and possibly disable him at any time, also. So if we put it behind the front porch, or the back porch, he can not get to it to get it out, and has to drag it across the sandy yard, and kill his back. So sorry Mr. Neighbor, but we can't afford to risk it.

They already put up a big privacy fence in front of the Trailer Park when they built the apartments across the street, so the renter's would not have to look at us. That was totally fine with me. If they are willing to put up the fence, go for it, it gives me more privacy too.
Our County Commissioners are a bunch of uppity snobs, and are trying to close down all the trailer parks in the County. They allowed a developer to take out a large trailer park, that was in fair condition, forcrd everyone to move, and built a whole bunch of luxury apartments. Arrrrrrrggg!!!!I just wonder where they expect all the people who are on fixed incomes to live, and those people who are working the menial jobs, and are underpaid for the cost of living, and therefore can't afford $1200.00 per month rent. What about single mothers trying to raise the kids on their own, because the father is in jail for not paying child support. Now THAT makes a LOT of sense!!! Put the father in jail where he can't work and can't make his child support payments. Thats a real intelligent solution. A lot of thought must have been put in to THAT one. Geese Louise. It doesn't take a Rocket Scientist to figure this shit out. Just a little brain power and common sense.

How do they expect young kids to get started out on their own, if there is no affordable housing left in the County? I know it's a resort community, but let's get real here! Either the wages must come up, or the rents must come down. One or the other....(both would be really nice for a change, ha ha) They use absolutely no common sense when they come up with these ridiculous ideas, and are only thinking of themselves and the tourists. Just run the "riff raff" out of town. So what I want to know is, who do they expect to work at the gas stations, the local pharmacy, the grocery stores bagging their precious groceries, the hospital doing their admission paperwork, cleaning their hospital rooms, changing their beds, emptying their bedpans, etc...?
And they have this huge Mortgage and Credit Crisis going on right now, and wonder why? A...because people were swindled into living beyond their means by preditory lenders promising them the American Dream? Now the interest rates suddenly go up on the adjustable rate mortgages, and if they make a late payment on ANYTHING, the interest rates on their credit cards go up, and all of a sudden they are stuck in a house they can no longer afford, is worth less than what they paid for it, and are in debt up to their eyeballs, because they were living on their credit cards, and can't even afford the minimum payments anymore.
So once again history repeats itself, and we end up in another Recession. Didn't people learn the first time?