Many resort to living in campground

[gillenkl]

Did anyone see on the nightly news last night the story on all the folks who have resorted to living in campgrounds? They spoke to one family where both DH and his wife had lost their jobs and their mini mansion. All the items from their home were in a storage facility and they were living in a campground in a borrowed trailer. The story was just highlighting the jobless plight and people people are making ends meet. Interesting thing in the night before DH and I were talking about what we'd do in an emergency situtation and decided that's what we'd have to do as well.

 

[drafthorsecrazy]

Last Mar. we spent a week at the Myrtle Beach State Park on our way home from Disney. We talked to several campers and one tenter who had wintered there. State Parks can wave the 2 wk maximum stay during slow times. They were full timers. Not just snowbirds. No elaborate coaches; no high end tow vehicles, no golf carts. Just your average joes that the economy kicked in the rear. When you stop to think about it.....where else can you stay for $12 night? ($24 with half off senior discount) $360 month with all utilites--no sewer at this rate but most had the portable blue totes. I can certainly believe there are many people currently living this way.

 

[clkelley]

Some good friends of ours had to do the same thing. Couldn't sell the trailer and truck for what they owed on it, so got rid of most of their stuff, moved out of the apartment, and are now living in the 5th wheel.

 

[ntsammy5]

Could be worse... I suppose

 

[shirley 38]

When we bought our 5'er we always said "if we ever lost our home we have a place to live"

Seems like this is happening. Bless all the people who are doing this and Good Luck in the future.

A pot of gold is just over the rainbow.

 

[stacktester]

The last time we were at Turkey Lake in Orlando we noticed some rv's from the trip a few months before this one and when I asked the girl at the front she said there were about 5 people full timing it there and it didn't look like they were leaving anytime soon.

 

[bigdisneydaddy]

MrsGus lives out of her trailer.

I am sure that history has many stories about people living in temporary shelters during hard times, our trailer is a mansion compared to what some folks have endured.

 

[boettj]

Interesting story. While I don't know all of the details, it sounds like these people are survivors. Ones that have not counted on the government to bail them out. Instead they have made the most of what they have. My family of 5 would do just this. We would not allow a loss of job to stop us.

I hope these people can rebound. The hardest part of hitting bottom is the cleanup process. You need to start cleaning up what you can slowly. To rebuild your credit. This has happened to us without moving to a campground.



Cheers.