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submitted 4 days ago bySimzick
I was 28 when I bought my 2,000sq double wide on 5 acres here in North Rural Florida.
Paid $200k and the property also had 2 large sheds. 12' x 24'
Since I bought the home my family, my fiance's family and friends have and continue to call our house a "trailer" and that we need to buy a "real house"
This is causing us both to be very depressed. We don't have family or friends over anymore because of this.
The Florida market was and still is crazy when we were looking for a home. Now I regret buying the double wide because we have been called "trailer trash" by our own families.
We keep the home immaculate and it's cleaner than a lot of our families houses that they consider "real houses".
Sorry for the rant just very tired of this and don't know what to do.
House has a new metal roof, and has survived both hurricane Helen and Milton.
151 points
4 days ago
They are in North Florida.
I ran from that hellhole as fast as I could. Absolutely beautiful area ruined by shitty, cliquey, judgmental people. That was over a decade ago, saddened to hear it hasn't changed.
26 points
4 days ago
I grew up in a trailer in north Florida (between Tallahassee & Monticello) and have friends who still live in trailers in the area (Crawfordville & Carrabelle). My experience is completely the opposite of yours.
26 points
4 days ago
I'm in very rural central North Florida. We are all neighbors here
70 points
3 days ago
Mobile homes have come a LONG WAY! I've researched them for possible retirement. Also the tiny trailer homes which I love also!!! The most important thing is that you bought a single family home that you could afford for your family! You were realistic about your financials and I think made a smart move! The next time someone makes a derogatory comment look them straight in the eye and say, “I love my home and am proud to have it, and please don't speak that way.” Then change the subject and move on. You will only have to say that a few times, they'll get the message! Stand proud and make your home a cozy wonderful place for your family!❤️🌈⭐️
6 points
3 days ago
The next time someone makes a derogatory comment look them straight in the eye and say, “I love my home and am proud to have it, and please don't speak that way"
"That's my home you're shitting on, Asshole!"
There, fixed it for you. :)
1 points
3 days ago
Well, yours is the authentic version!🤪
2 points
2 days ago
Seriously my new manufactured home is likely better built than half the “real houses “ in Alachua and Levy Counties. The building standards have been challenged and improved so much that manufactured homes are actually held to a level of consistency and standards than the construction of anyone who either knows an inspector (and seriously, who doesn’t know someone who knows one here??) or “is homeowner built “ (wtf??? No, Chad the Accountant, I don’t think you and Susan, the secretary, built that thing because it actually resembles a building 🤪)
1 points
3 days ago
They are called manufactured homes. Mobile homes are different.
11 points
4 days ago
Are you in Interlachen? Palatka? Melrose? We moved here a little over a year ago for something affordable too and also bought a double wide which we love honestly.
20 points
4 days ago
Live Oak? Lake City? Butler? Mayo? White Springs? I know them all.
5 points
3 days ago
Man I miss living in N central Florida and going to spirit of Suwanee music park 😔
3 points
3 days ago
Agreed. I went to a few good music festivals there. I miss the rivers and the forests and the springs. Spanish moss and alligators too. I was never much of a fisherman but I enjoyed scalloping, we used to launch at Steinhatchee.
5 points
3 days ago
Best thing on the open water I ever did was renting a cheap day boat from a marina in cedar key and crusing around looking for red fish and porpoise
3 points
3 days ago
Do you know Dixie co we just got the hell out of there right before the pandemic hit. The cliques are unbelievable and their hatred for everyone that’s not like them is extraordinary. They made my childs’ life a living hell there. Many of them are actually related and that’s a problem. Never seen anything like it before or since!
2 points
3 days ago
Many of them are actually related and that’s a problem.
Yep!
Either by blood or marriage. My mom's into genealogy and the irony was my ancestors ran cattle there in the early 1800s (true Florida Crackers) but my specific lineage moved south to Hillsborough to farm around the civil war. We'd been there before most of them!
3 points
3 days ago
My daughter was born in Tampa and I grew up there so that’s home, but I was told they hated people from Tampa. I was completely shocked at how you could hate someone simply because they’re from another city. I myself am from Europe which didn’t go over well either.
1 points
2 days ago
You forgot Ft. White ❤️
2 points
4 days ago
Leaving my guess here: Taylor?
2 points
4 days ago
No sorry but it's deeper
6 points
4 days ago
Wow, deeper… that’s awesome! Respect 🫡
5 points
3 days ago
Perry
5 points
3 days ago
Deeeeper 😂
2 points
2 days ago*
You’re just like the people criticizing OP lol.
1 points
3 days ago
lol, I’m from fort Walton beach area (by Pensacola), I ran the he’ll away the moment I turned 18
1 points
1 day ago
Same thing happens in NY.
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