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One of my friends lives in a shipping container in Oakland in a trailer park. She loves it and pays around $250/month for the space. When I was visiting, the p
by mruts 8y ago
One of my friends lives in a shipping container in Oakland in a trailer park. She loves it and pays around $250/month for the space.
When I was visiting, the people there are so nice. It’s a community in which people help each other, not like the upper class neighborhoods of my youth. In a span of one day, I got some weed, some beer, and an popsicle.
A far cry from many upper class neighborhoods in which no one is willing to talk to each other.
- MiddleEndian 8y agoAs a heavy introvert, I'm happy not to live in such a situation. I say "hi" to my neighbors, chat a bit sometimes, and other than that we live entirely independent lives. And that's what I like. Even living with close friends can be exhausting to me.
- ecshafer 8y agoYour experience is the opposite of most people's experience. I am from a poor rural area full of trailer parks. My experience with them is a place with heavy drug use, domestic abuse, extremely frequent robberies and violence. Definitely not a place most people would like to live given the choice.
- protomyth 8y agoDepends pretty heavily on the place. South Dakota has some really good ones and some really bad ones. Checking the light poles generally tells the tale.
- RHSeeger 8y agoThere are plenty of middle and upper income neighborhoods where there is community. There are plenty of low income neighborhoods where everyone treats everyone like an enemy.