Janie, I don't think it would be good for your spirit, at all. I understand wanting to be "practical" but I know it isn't anything I could deal with and from what I know of the beauty you make of your gardens, etc. I just don't think it would be good for you.

My brother lives in a senior mobile/manufactured home park and hates it. He cannot have a vegetable garden or plant a flower garden. He has to mow his own grass and water it, but he cannot let it go, even for a week, without mowing or the "association" will fine him and come round with a notice. The one thing he likes about it, is it is his own space not shared with anyone else, i.e. no shared walls, ceilings, floors, etc.

On the other hand they have come a long way in mobile homes, etc. I just finished a freelance copy editing job for a new magazine in California called Upwardly Mobile Home which will have upcoming articles on some really swanky places costing hundreds of thousands, including one owned and lived in by the actress, Minnie Driver, in a beach community. The magazine aims to show a range of mobile and manufactured housing and what it can be besides what most folks think of with the stereotype of "trailer trash."

I would imagine there must be some grief at leaving the home you are in. What you go to will be an important part of dealing with that grief as well as can be. I wish you well and send you lots of {{{{HUGS}}}}}.

kat