> Seth Hammond wrote:

>>

>>>>I think this whole discussion is occuring because of another of those
>>>>terminology shifts:
>>>>To me, a "mobile home" would be a home that is _mobile_, ie movable
>>>>like
>>>>a Winibago or a caravan.
>>>>I'm suspicious that Sarah, Seth etc are talking about a home that is
>>>>"transportable", something like a works site office built into a
>>>>container, although that might better be called "portable".
>>>>
>>>>It can't be that surprising that I've been somewhat confused by a
>>>>description of a "mobile home" that apparently isn't a mobile home?
>>>>When we get this one sorted we can try "manufactured home" and ...
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Greg.P.

>>>
>>> Well, in Florida, mobile homes are commonly called 'trailers.' In one
>>> hurricane
>>> shelter I informed all the displaced folks that they it was deemed safe
>>> to
>>> go
>>> back to their 'trailers.' I caught some flak for saying that from the
>>> mobile
>>> home owners.
>>>
>>> In the US, a Winnebago (or any other manufacturer of a motorized
>>> camper)
>>> is
>>> called a motor home. A caravan is called a camping trailer, although
>>> the
>>> word
>>> 'caravan' has a completely different meaning in the US. A mobile home
>>> is
>>> a
>>> semi-permanent home that can be transported on either permanently
>>> mounted
>>> or
>>> temporarily mounted axles. By semi-permanent, I mean that they can
>>> easily
>>> be
>>> hooked up and transported to a new location, although they are normally
>>> not
>>> moved once set up.
>>>

>>
>> You're wasting your time, Joe. Dumbfucker grog can't learn anything.
>> He's
>> been told those facts over and over. It only confuses him.

>
>
> The "facts" are that "mobile homes" in the US are not mobile and would
> barely qualify is homes in first world nations.