Quick! Go post the above anecdote in the nearby Baader-Meinhof moments thread!
What struck you as so horrible about living like that? The surroundings are beautiful. He’s got electricity and apparently the other important amenities. Yeah, the interior looks terribly cluttered (very reminiscent of a picture I saw of the interior of one of the Duck Dynasty trailers, I think), but that’s just him. What prevents one from fixing the place up to be at least as nice as any trailer of similar square-footage?