What's it like to live in a trailer?

It is a lot better than being homeless, or living in a shelter. I bet I would be constantly surrounded by a sense of being poor, but I would feel glad that I have a place to live in privacy and dignity.

I assume you mean to ask about a *mobile home*?

I did not live in one, but my best friend growing up lived in a mobile home with her widowed mother, who lost her husband when my friend was just a year old.

I stayed over with them plenty and it was just like living in house, but smaller I suppose. They lived in a very well kept family park, in a beautiful city. Her mother made a lovely home there decorated with antiques and family heirlooms and she had an incredible garden in the front yard. We called it their "little cottage".

Living there allowed my friend to attend private school and have a very nice life in a place she and her mother could call their own. I've always admired her mother for how well she did with what little she had.

Damp and cold in winter.
I did it for two years and enjoyed the closenness to nature. Could hear the birds singing every morning.
High summer was noisy with kids and drunks though, if its a world cup season forget it!

I've lived in a trailer for almost 24 years. It's my home and I'm attached to it. However, we were young when we bought it and didn't know just how flimsy they are made. Leaks are rare tho. The wiring is bad, we can't use outlets in certain combinations. Only three of the original windows open anymore. One window we put in from a house. The floors had to be covered with plywood because the original particle board was falling in. It's on cinder blocks (with a rock underskirting) so the temperature changes over the years has shoved it out of square, meaning doors don't close properly and one window is difficult to open. It gets hot when the sun hits it and we freeze in the winter due to the very thin layer of insulation (thickness of a blanket). We also have another trailer. It's falling apart, holes in the roof and floors. I'm in the country where I don't have to worry about what nieghbors think, lol, thank goodness.

It's great! I would rather live in a trailer in the country than a million dollar house in the 'burbs. I grew up in the burbs and couldn't wait to get out. I need my space, and I finally have it. On weekends, I'll have a fire going out next to the grill, with the TV on the picnic table (watching a game). Dogs and kids are running around playing with snakes and bugs... just loving nature.

You can't do that when your house is 3 feet from your neighbors. Those are the people I call "poor". They're surrounded by concrete. I'm surrounded by trees and QUIET!!!

Or course, we're gonna build on the land one day, but for now it's time to pay off school loans.

fema trailers are terrible, it's definitely a more home-y feeling when you've got your own house.

I lived in one for 3 years with my husband when we first got together it was very small & cold in winter & hot in summer. Was very glad when we finally bought our Condo that we lived in for 10 years

damn what kind of trailers did you people live in,I would say Itsgood depending if you own your own land and or live in a so to speak upscale mobile home park which would depend on where you live.It would also depend on how much you can afford for one ,some are like small boxes and some are like a house,like they say you get what you pay for ,I wouldnt say it is a good choice to make if you plan to live in it for the rest of your life they will eventually fall to pieces,like anything else just a little faster than a real house.If you have children a new mobile home is idea if you want a roof over their heads.Its really what a person prefers to live in its not for every one but they are home. Best thing i could suggest go to a mobile home dealer and walk through one or two

I stayed in one for 3 weeks and felt very claustrophobic.

Although it was quite nice nothing like the large American trailer homes just a holiday park.

It sucks I lived in on growning up it was cooled, the roof leak the walls would get ice on them in the winter moldy and most of them have a wierd smell to them. I had to live in one for awhile as an adult I hope my kids never have to live in one again.

We lived in a double wide for over 30 years, redid all the windows, raised the roof in the bedroom, added skylights, decks, total new kitchen after about 15 years. All drywall and new insulation throughout. Never on a foundation. Paid just like a trailer license thru the DMV which kept our property taxes real low, around $250 a year. Loved every minute of it. We had 60 acres around us which belonged to our family surrounded by 300 acres on one side and 600 acres on the other. Had a horse ranch, every kind of critter. It was heaven on earth:-)

Rather like a living in a small house...

It made me feel "trashy".

(So I burnt down the trailerpark) lol

the roof leaks,the floor creaks.,there's a man eating clam in the backyard!

Lived in my tin can for 1 year.Heat and cold expands the metal and it makes a lot of noise when the temp changes.It sounds like someone is hitting the back of the trailer very hard and the roof sounded like someone was walking on it.This was in the flight path of the AFB and the noise level was out of this world.
The neighbors were nice as well as managers.Had two bedrooms.Slept in frontroom as it was the warmest.Fought ants,saw wild turkeys,went for walks in the cemetery across the road.One big party!I saw some very run down trailers on other sites that would make you want to throw up.

I love em.