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Alternative Housing Solutions
Mar. 9th, 2005 01:56 pmWe're pretty well decided on Parkway Village, a well-kept mobile home community. That's right, boys and girls: I's gettin' me a trailer.
I somehow missed out on the "trailer trash" thing. I mean, I know what trailer trash is, and the mother of some of it dated by grandfather for a while. But the idea of moving into a trailer park doesn't upset me or look like a step down. It'll be bigger and cheaper than an apartment (at least, an apartment in good neighborhood). We may or may not get any lawn, depending on the lot, but we don't share walls with anyone or have people tromping around upstairs. We have friends in the community and visit Sunday nights - it's quiet. No re-enactments of "COPS." It's across the street from an elementary school, so there are a lot of young families there. There's a park office that enforces yard codes - some of them might veer into tackiness by virtue of too many cement statues, hummingbird feeders and windchimes, but there is nary a car on blocks nor a sofa in the yard to be seen. The cats look sleek and well-fed, not like half-wild strays.
We'll own the trailer, so we can decorate it as we like. We can have cats or a dog if we like. That will be nice.
Most nice of all is that we can keep saving money. We'll want a stick-built house eventually, I expect. And once I settle into a post-graduation job, we may find out that Parkway Village makes an inconvenient commute. But from them til now, we can keep adding to a nest egg for a home downpayment without having to give up as much of our fun money as we would in the apartment. (That also means that, if/when there are children, there is more money to go around.)
I have a good feeling about it.
I somehow missed out on the "trailer trash" thing. I mean, I know what trailer trash is, and the mother of some of it dated by grandfather for a while. But the idea of moving into a trailer park doesn't upset me or look like a step down. It'll be bigger and cheaper than an apartment (at least, an apartment in good neighborhood). We may or may not get any lawn, depending on the lot, but we don't share walls with anyone or have people tromping around upstairs. We have friends in the community and visit Sunday nights - it's quiet. No re-enactments of "COPS." It's across the street from an elementary school, so there are a lot of young families there. There's a park office that enforces yard codes - some of them might veer into tackiness by virtue of too many cement statues, hummingbird feeders and windchimes, but there is nary a car on blocks nor a sofa in the yard to be seen. The cats look sleek and well-fed, not like half-wild strays.
We'll own the trailer, so we can decorate it as we like. We can have cats or a dog if we like. That will be nice.
Most nice of all is that we can keep saving money. We'll want a stick-built house eventually, I expect. And once I settle into a post-graduation job, we may find out that Parkway Village makes an inconvenient commute. But from them til now, we can keep adding to a nest egg for a home downpayment without having to give up as much of our fun money as we would in the apartment. (That also means that, if/when there are children, there is more money to go around.)
I have a good feeling about it.
