The local trailer park has been an eyesore for a long time. The council had talked about demolishing it, maybe replacing it with apartment complexes - but the people who live there objected.
Since most of the bartenders, shopkeepers and other necessary personnel live in these trailers, you really do not want them to get angry enough to go on strike.
On the other hand, it can't stay like this - it's not just that it's a mess, but there aren't enough trailers for everyone. There are currently more than 20 Sims living on this lot.
So the trailer park gets an upgrade, but it will still be a trailer park.
Council wants neat rows, a designated parking space (no cars parked in-between the trailers any more), and a decent administration building. They also want a fence around the entire compound.
Jeremiah Dickson and Joe LaRue are the ones calling the shots (they're the heads of the two largest families), so they get stuck with the task of buying new trailers and making everything look good.
The Dickson family sell their old trailers and borrow money to buy four second-hand trailers of the same design, and put them in a row near the front of the lot.
The LaRue family buy four identical (on the outside) extra-wide trailers
(which, as you can see in the picture, still need a ton of work - but at least they're identical and in a neat row).
And Joe and Jeremiah together buy five caravans - they're cheaper, and easier to tow if necessary...
This is the first caravan that is ready to be lived in.
The others are similar - different woods, different fabrics, slightly different lay-out, but essentially very similar.
Jeremiah and Ella May Dickson are the patriarch and matriarch of the Dickson clan. They have two daughters and four sons.
(Some of the Dicksons are by Nengi at Sims Crosing, some are by frisbud at TSR.)
Maggie Sue Dickson is the town's maid, and her brother Billy Bob is the burglar. Maggie Sue has a daughter (father unknown) called Sweet Pea. Sweet Pea lives with her grandparents.
She has her own bedroom in the trailer - which is bigger than the bedrooms some kids in town have to make do with.
George Dickson runs the local farmers' market, and also lives in town. So does his son Jock, who is the bartender at the local sports bar.
However, George's son Jefferson and his wife Eleanor live in the trailer park, next to Jeremiah, in fact.
(Jock and Jefferson presumably had a mother at some point, but she's not in the picture.)
Eleanor and Jefferson are expecting their first baby.
Biker Dickson is the bartender at the poolside bar on the beach, and Waylon is a bartender on the Lucky Simoleon (the local casino boat). They're both in the NPC household.
Billy Bob Dickson was married, but he cheated on his wife, then stole money from another trailer park resident, and he was kicked out of the park. He currently rents a room at the Lilac Woods Inn (where his Aunt Prude also lives).
Billy Bob's ex-wife, Susie McGovern, lives on the other side of Jeremiah's trailer, with her sons Elias and Joey Dickson.
Susie has a sister, Bunny, and a mother, Betty. Betty recently started working as a babysitter, and Bunny runs the bar at the Lucky Simoleon.
Her father was Joe McGovern, who used to own the dive bar right next to the trailer park. Her brother Joey is the local fireman.
The fourth trailer belongs to Scarlet Dickson.
She lives there with her husband Matt LeStrange, and Matt's daughter from his previous marriage, Letitia.
Scarlet is pregnant - which irritates Matt, because he dislikes children. Scarlet is 43 years old, so she probably felt it was now or never.
Letitia doesn't mind having to share her bedroom with a baby - she's family-oriented and is looking forward to having a half-sibling.
Matt LeStrange has two more children, Jacob and Serafina, also by his ex-wife Beatrice. Beatrice LeStrange now runs the barrista bar at the museum.
(Judith Adams used to work there, but she kept throwing out routing error messages every morning - I'm hoping a homeless role Sim will do better.)
Beatrice is part of the NPC household (so she lives in town somewhere).
Serafina is the town's NPC repairwoman.
Jacob does live in the trailer park. He currently sleeps where-ever he can find a bed, but at some point he'll probably end up in a trailer of his own. Or maybe share one with one of the other young adult males...
He currently works as a massage therapist at the local spa.
Matt is one of the few Sims in the park who has a regular job. He's in the Science career. He will probably end up being the town's new mad scientist.
(He was modeled after the Sims 1 Mad Scientist NPC.)
Ella May Dickson spontaneously started working behind the bar at the bistro.
Jefferson Dickson is married to Eleanore LaRue, and they're expecting their first child. Eleanore is one of eight children.
Franco LaRue is the local mail carrier, while delivers pizza. Francesca works at the museumshop, while Chastity works at the cat cafe.
This is Chastity, in the background, behind the bar. The two Sims at the front are Trevor McGovern and Serafina LeStrange.
Lucille and Traveling Joe live in one of the wider trailers in the middle, with their youngest daughter, Lucy.
Lucy LaRue works as a musician at the Lucky Simoleon. Junior doesn't work at all,while Sarah runs the local consignment store.
Sarah is married to Byron Wilson, who runs the petshop. He's one of four kids. His sister is the town's police officer, his brother is the local preacher, and his brother Bob is a tattoo artist.
So that's most of the trailer park's residents.
Of course there's Mama Hick and her son Elden, who share a caravan in the back.
And then there's the Hatfield family. They live in the last wide trailer (the one on the far left in the picture). Ulysses T. Hatfield and his wife Ruby Ann have three children: Billy, Hank and Elizabeth Elvira. Uysses T. started work at Hillbilly Harry's Rodeo bar, while Ruby Ann started work at the hospital.
This is Elizabeth Elvira.
(The Hatfields are based on a Sims 1 downloadable family.)
