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> "Greg Procter" ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:4802327E.3D6549A3@ihug.co.nz...

>> 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.

>
> Motor homes? Travel trailers? Pop-up campers? Park models? Double-wides?
> Er, there's only two of those categories that *usually* but not always stay
> on forever at their first site. See can you guess which, dipstick.....