Stealth Camping or Layovering
This is a related subject to boondocking and dry camping. I'm not sure I've broached the subject here. We have stealth camped for decades and find it works well in cities large and small even with our...
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Boon Docker wrote:I couldn't care less where the guy spends or doesn't spend his money. But people who supposedly live the lifestyle the guy describes are one of the reasons there are incessant rules and regulations in and around the RV industry. Why do you think there are laws against living on the street? Why there are laws limiting the time a vehicle can be parked in one spot? It's because of people like the OP.
Western is just PO'ed because you are not wasting your cash at his establishment. :B
It is nearly impossible to get approval to build a new RV park. Local opposition will intense. Many of the objections will be about neighbors not wanting the homeless living close by. There are many areas where RVs cannot remain on a site for a period of time exceeding 180 days. For some people who want to just leave the rig during the off season at their seasonal site this presents a hardship. But the locals fear of trailer trash living full time in the area brought on that compromise.
Every time someone condones people living in their cars, they re-enforce that belief. With the internet, we no longer live in a vacuum. Somewhere, sometime a thread like this will be presented as evidence that RV parks are nothing more than homeless camps. I think it is safe to say that most everyone who has posted in favor of the guy living in his car would be opposed to it if he chose the street in front of a daycare center or their grandchildren's home as his base of operations. NIMBY is alive and well when it comes to people living on the streets. And unlike certain other things like prisons, drug rehab centers, half way houses, garbage dumps, airports, and all the other things we need but don't want near our homes, places for people opting to live in their cars are not something that is needed. Support it if you feel you must, but be aware it will lead to less actual choices for RVs and more rules and regulations that will effect true RVers as local entities try to eliminate the loopholes that allow people to live on the streets.
