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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…

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…

The mobile home park industry has been reliably profitable due to its structural advantages that keeps mobile home park supply, tenant turnover, ongoing capital and recurring expenses low.

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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…

By Andy Zipser Read part one of this story here. American housing prices have been on an unsustainably steep climb for 10 years, far outstripping overal