My fiance and I are soon moving out west. We’ve looked at countless ways to live in a small and affordable living situation. The reason we’re moving in the first place is for me to go to medical school in the Seattle area. I come from a small suburban city in New Hampshire. She’s a country girl through and through. We also enjoy our privacy with some sort of property, and we have two cats and two golden retrievers. All that said, she’s very picky as to where she wants to live. We have found however that it’s hard to find an apartment that accepts so many animals. But her being picky about having privacy throws apartments out the window any way, even in the slim chance we could find one that takes animals.
She feels downgraded and of a lower class just thinking about living in a mobile home park, or "trailer" park as some call them. Us being engaged, she want’s that higher sense of living. All I want to do is get through medical school in any living condition that’s good enough to make that happen so I can then afford a better home for all of us. Us being in our late 20′s get’s rid of dormitory’s, especially since we’re together and with animals.
We don’t want to buy a full sized house, but we also feel limited with renters limits, even if we got lucky and found a good house to rent.

What’s it like to live in a mobile home/trailer park? From pictures of homes for sale, they look quaint and simple, but I can’t say I’ve ever known anyone who’s lived in one. All I know is they have some of the most affordable houses on the market right now, even newer ones. I suppose I’m looking for a way to prove to her that they aren’t as bad as she feels they are, but of course that rests on the facts of reality, the pros and cons.
Do they tend to be very strict with rules?

Thanks for any help.
If I bought an affordable mobile home in a park for say 25,000 and had a mortgage for that, do I pay that mortgage plus the amount to rent the lot?