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Bear facts about trailer park life

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five possible solutions. My best solution was that we need to mitigate forestry and farm runoff. This means we need to minimise forestry runoff like silt, dust, soil, bits of wood and bark. Farm runoff is fertiliser­s and soil/nitrogen that runs into the waterways.

I hope you like my solution and people might consider putting this solution into action. she wanted to shop, see a movie or visit her doctor, she could catch one of the local buses from the village gate.

It had cost half the price of an equivalent non-mobile home, and was cheap to live in: the resident’s associatio­n employed three staff to run the place and a monthly fee of US$213 covered their wages plus water, sewer, cable TV, garbage pickup and the upkeep of all common property.

Her home wasn’t as flimsy as the word ‘‘trailer’’ suggests to the New Zealand ear although, even in the US trailers are now called ‘‘manufactur­ed houses’’ or ‘‘modular homes’’.

Her 1782 metre trailer sat on a 5262 metre section and had a living/dining room, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a sun-porch. Except for the fact that it could be picked up and transporte­d elsewhere, it looked very much like an ordinary house.

I was reminded of my trailer park nuptials this week while reading a Time article describing the rise in the US of trailer parks purpose-built as retirement villages.

‘‘How will we live in our golden years?’’ the article asked, and went on to demonstrat­e that if your goal is living well at low cost, ‘‘trailerpar­k life turns out to be a superior way to achieve it.’’

I went on to read features in the Atlantic and the Guardian on the profitabil­ity of the trailer park and mobile homes business.

Warren Buffett owns a

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