Trailer parks

Trailer Parks are an odd phenomenon. You own the trailer, but rent the lot, with no guarantee of what the rent will be. I live in a State Park, and we kiddingly call our house "the brick trailer" as it is an unimaginative ranch home. We rent the land from the State of Georgia. It is not a big deal, the lot lease goes for 80 years at this point, and our annual lot rent is less than $500. (Before you cry outrage, I do have to pay a $640 fire fee, $2500 in property taxes, a parking fee of $90 a…

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by Tim Gilmore, 6/21/2012 You can’t understand a town like Jacksonville without understanding some things about trailer parks. Jacksonville has a kind of noplace to it, an impermanence, a sense tha…

2 bedroom, 1 bath trailer that has been remodeled and they are finishing up a few items. Large covered deck. Lot rent is $100 per month in Krebs Park, selling the trailer only, no land.

Trailer Park Princess(aka trashy coquette), combines elements of eroticism, poverty, and Coquette/Nymphet femininity to create a feeling of nostalgia, unease, and deviancy. It incorporates many elements of Camp and Kitsch; it is a total subversion of what is deemed to be good taste in contemporary American society, as it openly celebrates identities that are shamed in American society: the poor, drag queens, sex workers and the kink scene, and rural "uncultured" communities. The users who…

Trailer parks have a seedy reputation. But for more and more Americans, they're a source of affordable housing.

For the full gallery and write up about how this trailer park came to be http://southsiders-mc.blogspot.com/2010/10/shady-dell-vintage-trailers-camp.html

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