Trailer park for billionaires

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"An off-market listing for an 800-square-foot oceanfront Montauk trailer is in contract to sell for a record $3.75 million, which equates to a cool $5,000 per-square-foot, The Post has learned."

"In the past year alone, and apart from the previous record sale, at least 10 mobile homes there have sold between $675,000 and $1.4 million. And trailers closer to the beach are even more expensive."

nypost.com

A trailer in a Hamptons billionaires’ bunker sells for a record $3.75M

Montauk Shores, long a summer playground for the ultra-rich, is known for its high-priced mobile homes — and a new sale just broke another record for the area.
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I've always failed to understand what draws people to live on the water. I'd be especially curious to know what would draw somebody to pay millions to live in a mobile fire trap just to be close to an ocean that's been irradiated, full of garbage and too cold to swim in. Real estate has turned into pure insanity.
 
WylieCoyote said:
I've always failed to understand what draws people to live on the water. I'd be especially curious to know what would draw somebody to pay millions to live in a mobile fire trap just to be close to an ocean that's been irradiated, full of garbage and too cold to swim in. Real estate has turned into pure insanity.
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Could be worse:
www.independent.co.uk

Drone video captures house nearly falling into sea after bomb cyclone hits East Coast

The owners of the house have been petitioning to move it further back from the shore
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk

In seriousness, wife and I have debated uprooting and living on a coastline or within walking distance of a beach. Like the idea of being able to take the kids to the beach after school or a run on the beach in the morning, etc. rather than just a vacation or weekend thing. I'm not an ocean swimmer or beach lounger but I enjoy walking on the water. I can see the appeal, but I'm not price shopping on Montauk either.
 
Yes, this is Long Island Real Estate.
Always amazes me, born, raised, spent most of my life there. Great times, great friends and wow, when I say great times (meaning I lived through them *LOL*) but I bailed out 15 years ago. Its doesnt matter your income the standard of living isnt that great for what you get other then traffic congestion and maybe bragging rights to an income that buys you nothing but high taxes in modest homes.
Anyway, here is the full story! Amazing ...

nypost.com

Inside the Hamptons trailer park that’s become a playground for millionaires

“When you read about the history of Montauk, it was a village of the workers. Now, they’re being priced out and pushed out,” one local told The Post.
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Direct_Rejection said:

All Mobile Home Listings: Listing Report | Ren Smith

mobilehomesmalibu.com mobilehomesmalibu.com
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Yeah I get this, pretty amazing too! Though these areas are in prime "city" areas and would be more equal to condos I think in NYC.
Still I am amazed by your post dont get me wrong but not a direct comparison being the CA homes have facilities, HOAs, ect and outside a prime city. https://mobilehomesmalibu.com/listing-report/All-Mobile-Home-Listings/889861/

The Long Island Location is a rural area that takes well over two hours drive from NYC and only one way to get there at the tip of Long Island. Well, I guess you could Helicopter possibly plane into MacArthur Airport or Seaplane.
 
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Number_35 said:
Wasn't there a Nelson Demille novel about that? It was pretty weird, as I recall.
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Sounds more like a Dean Koontz novel.

EDIT: I see what you're saying. Plum Island is a DeMille crime novel involving the murder of biologists working at the Plum Island facility. Plum Island is not a good place to visit.

 
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