Immobile Homes
99% Invisible
SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars
4.8 • 28.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars. |
| 0:05.3 | The state of Utah has about 3 million people and a third of them live in one valley |
| 0:10.7 | surrounded on three sides by 7,000 foot mountains and to the northwest, by a great |
| 0:17.2 | salty lake. |
| 0:19.1 | The valley is home to the state capital, Salt Lake City, and a bunch of other small cities and towns that over time |
| 0:25.2 | have grown together into one big mass. |
| 0:28.8 | One of the towns amid the sprawl is Midvale. |
| 0:32.0 | Okay, we are in Midvale, Utah. |
| 0:35.0 | Producer Emmett Fitzgerald recently took a trip to Midvale, Utah to visit a mobile home park. |
| 0:40.0 | I am standing outside of the Applewood community. |
| 0:45.0 | Applewood is a small mobile home community for seniors. |
| 0:48.0 | You have to be 55 or older to live there. |
| 0:51.0 | It's about 7 acres with 56 lots, and it looks a lot like the rest of suburban |
| 0:55.6 | Midvale except the houses are smaller and closer together. It has its own little road with |
| 1:01.0 | its own speed limit, 10 miles per hour. |
| 1:03.4 | It's a very quiet community. |
| 1:05.4 | Except for that, a wheat lacquer. |
| 1:08.4 | The houses are, you know, just a few, a few feet apart, but they all look nice you know they're in really good shape |
| 1:15.6 | little gardens out front of each one some daffodils let's see should I use this |
| 1:21.7 | side entrance to the front engine? |
| 1:24.0 | Hello! |
| 1:28.0 | Hi there, come on me! |
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