BOULDER, Colo. - Here in the heart of one of Colorado`s most expensive cities, Isabel Sanchez bought a mobile home seven years ago for just $6,000. Her four-bedroom bungalow now sits on a lot she rents for $355 a month. The mobile home park Sanchez and her family live in offers a glimpse of Boulder`s hippie past. Small houses and trailers, many dating to the 1960s and `70s, sit close together on tree-lined streets. `I love the space, I love the location, I love the community here,` Sanchez, 55, said recently, relaxing in a blue armchair in her spotless living room. Affordable neighborhoods like these have become hard to find in Boulder and cities across the country where home prices are...
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