conversation: User (noble_neckbeard): "My wife and I live in Southern California, and pay $1475 a month to rent for a two bedroom near the beach.  For where we live, this is an insanely good deal.\n\nHowever, I am looking to cut our expenses down some so we can save a bit more.  The housing market here is completely insane.  It's impossible to find a home in an area we want to live in for under $450k, and even those homes aren't in very nice areas.  Even with our high earning potential ($130k), these home prices seem out of reach.\n\n...unless we were to buy a mobile home.  I know there's a negative stigma against mobile home parks, but I've never understood why.  The areas we would be looking are nice areas, low crime, great schools, wealthy communities.  If you're in the ghetto and living in a mobile home park, I can understand why people might look down on you, but not in the towns we're looking at (Torrance and Redondo Beach CA).  \n\nYet the mobile homes in these cities still sell for $60k and sometimes less.  What gives?  I'm considering buying one in a nice part of town so I can still have a two bedroom that's not in the ghetto, but pay approximately $200 a month on the mortgage instead of $1475 on rent.  It seems like the ridiculous savings along on living cost would be worth it.\n\nThoughts?  I feel like I'm missing some information here about why I wouldn't want to live in a mobile home park.  My wife and I could care less about social stigma and just want to live somewhere reasonably safe."
  Self: "I'm not sure how they would stand up to CA natural disasters,  but where I grew up (tornado alley), mobile homes/ manufactured homes were looked down upon because they were just plain not safe in a tornado."
  User (noble_neckbeard): "The only natural disasters we have here are earthquakes...occasionally flooding during horrible storms but that only affects homes that are in areas where water would pool.  I guess how well they would stand up depends on how sturdy the manufacturing is, what type of ground they're on, and the topography of the land."
  plantstand (plantstand): "You can give them extra bracing for earthquakes. Look it up."
  