Drive out any back road around here and about half the dwellings will be mobile homes. Not alot of good paying jobs in these rural areas so alot of folks don't have much money. Upstate NY ain't exactly warm in the winter, hell it's 20* here right now and it's been snowing on and off for the past week. You can count on a few days of negative 10-20* with wind chills of negative 30-40* most winters. Folks get by just fine in mobile homes and alot of them are nicer inside than most of the houses in the area.