[Tagging] Tagging a site with "Luxury Lodges"

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 6:24 PM Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I personally would not tag a >20 foot wide manufactured home as a static
> caravan
>

I'm just amused that staying in a trailer park is considered a high end
tourism/glamping experience in the UK instead of a cheap form of permanent
housing.  Granted, my exposure to this phenomenon is limited to this thread
and Damn Dog Games covering Furcation 2018 on YouTube.


> I thought that building=static_caravan was meant for (single-wide)
> trailers / “mobile homes” without permanent foundations, since these could
> still be moved without demolishing a foundation or breaking the building
> into pieces.
>

I would tend to agree.  Or like the situation I was in for a few years in
the middle of this decade where it's *literally* a caravan that is
permanently parked.  I've not exactly considered them permanent enough to
warrant tagging (even though the specific one I lived in for a few years is
still parked in the exact same spot it was when I lived there, and I
legitimately question whether or not the landing gear is actually capable
of retracting or the brakes releasing if they even wanted to move it at
this point, since I believe it's sat on the same spot all but the first two
years after it was built).  I consider "mobile home" and "manufactured
home" to be synonymous.

If a manufactured home is placed on a permanent foundation, on land that is
> owned rather than rented, then it is just a different way of building a
> house, no?
>

I would classify a mobile/manufactured home as a permanent building,
whether or not the owner took the wheels off and built a foundation.
Entire multistorey buildings are only slightly less likely to ever move
again than mobile homes, and about as likely to survive transport (based on
Mercy Hospital Joplin being picked up and moved around 3 meters by a
tornado a few years ago, and seeing old mobile homes being moved; in both
cases the only real next stop is a garbage dump).

Similarly, a fancy modern house or apartment building might be built out of
> prefab modules or modified shipping containers.
>
> I’d say the defining difference is whether or not there is a permanent
> foundation
>

I think that's not a bad starting place, though I'd be willing to call any
mobile home not rigged up for immediate tow to be a permanent structure.
See also: Portable classrooms.  The leaky, 20 year old one I went to 6th
grade in (along with it's sister unit that was planted immediately
adjacent, scheduled to be removed "any year now" back in the 90s) is now
about 45 years old, basically a black mold lawsuit waiting to happen and
still in daily use back in Portland.
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