Is a stigma attached to one who is forced to move to a trailer park due to personal finances?
I just read a blog where someone is moving to a trailer park and is worry about the stigma attached to living in one.
I think it’s silly that there’s a stigma for moving into a trailer park. Living in a trailer is nothing bad and there should be no shame attached to it. Not everyone can afford a regular home. I’d prefer to pay on a trailer rather than throw my money away on rent and make someone else weathy. 2D
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absolutely – people call them trailer trash.
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I think it’s silly that there’s a stigma for moving into a trailer park. Living in a trailer is nothing bad and there should be no shame attached to it. Not everyone can afford a regular home. I’d prefer to pay on a trailer rather than throw my money away on rent and make someone else weathy. 2D
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I’m a successful professional. I handle a company’s money and a lot of their legal compliance stuff. I’m respected and treated with kindness and friendliness. And I live in a trailer park. It’s all about your frame of mind.
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Yes. Poor people live all over, but the thing with a trailer park is that trailers are generally considered a very bad investment, but the people who buy them were often conned into it. They often end up stuck there because they can never sell and get their money back out of them. It is very sad.
Before everyone calls me a snob, I should mention that I have many family members in trailer parks and I DO have personal experience with it.
I think the exception is retirees. I think it is a good idea for them and there is no stigma.
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If you are referring to "trailer trash" or something of that nature, yes, it probably will by the ignorant jerk offs that think everyone is beneath them. Sad but true.
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There is a stigma, but in my mind, the view someone takes of the person also depends on the type of park the person moved in to (is it well-kept by good people or run-down and inhabited by white trash) and the type of person himself/herself.
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No, not if it’s due to a financial situation that perhaps one had little to no control over. I think the stigma attached to someone living in a trailer park is more for people who are stuck there and stay on welfare and foodstamps and never want any better for themselves. You have to live where circumstances will allow, if someone judges you on that, then just feel sorry for them because they are close-minded.
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I had to move to a trailer park due to financial reverses and I find it far preferable to nosy rude condo neighbors, to being told what I can and cannot do, and being around noisy nasty people. I am very happy here, I have wonderful neighbors and I have no complaints; at night it is very quiet, even on the weekends, and I am so relieved not to have people stomping on the floor above me and condo associations, etc
Stigma? Yes, I suppose so, but it doesn’t bother me…and to those who worry about a stigma, it beats the streets and you should be thankful to have a roof over your head no matter where it is…more than many have.
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I have clients that live in mobile homes in trailor parks. Have you guys seen some of those places?? Some of those places are absolutely gorgeous! Jacuzzis, game rooms, two and three baths. The stigma is slowly fading. There will always be some trash whether in trailor parks, in apartments, in huge mansions…(Ehem..Paris Hilton…)
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I personally wouldn’t care to live in a trailer, however if I had no other option I would rather buy a nice trailer instead of renting. There are some very nice and affordable trailers, if your finances will only allow you to own a trailer so be it. It wouldn’t be the end of the world at least you have a place of your own that provides you with a roof over your head and payments that you can afford. Everyone has to start from somewhere.
Who cares about the "trailer trash saying" that stigma is only as good as the person who said it. If you know that you are comfortable making those payments for something that you will own all the power to that person.
Just my thoughts!
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I guess it depends on the trailer park, there are some very nice ones with beautiful trailers (i’ve always wanted to live in one, I always thought it would be like camping year round!). Generally speaking I don’t think there is a stigma attached to living in a trailer
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