>>713625558Lemme see if I can break it down.
The most important aspects of a trailer park tend to be that 1, a trailer park is technically an insular community. It's not really gated or anything, but there's relatively low thoroughfare of people who don't live there.
2, a trailer park is usually made up of extremely low quality housing. A lot of pretty basic infrastructure will often be out of alignment with what's considered normal, and things are cramped
3. Between the low housing quality, and while low absolute cost compared to proper housing, abysmal ratio of housing quality to cost, generally the only people who actually live in a trailer park are people with very limited income or other compounding factors.
GENERALLY, but not always, the "point" of a trailer park is actually not even to be long term housing, it's a temporary cabin that people with RVs (I think they're called caravans elsewhere? Mobile homes) camp at for a bit for whatever reason. This is a bit of a historic artifact, though, since they are sometimes put up with no real respect to that fact, especially.
Basically, you have a bunch of people with some level of economic hardship, coralled together in low cost, but abysmal quality housing that often isn't even really intended for long term residence, that tends to be far enough removed from other people that they tend to be somewhat isolated. The stereotype, as it pertains to youth oriented narratives, is that you have a bunch of neglected, borderline unsupervised kids, whose parents are all either working shit jobs or abusing substances, and these kids develop something of a unique in-culture as a result. These are going to be kids who are surrounded by human suffering and depravity, who learn hard knock lessons that isolate them culturally as well as physically.
In the worst cases, this is a pattern of generational poverty and enculturation, that tends to double and triple down on some of the more strange emergent cultural notes of the park.