Homeless people coming to your favorite campground!

Trekkar wrote:

MrWizard wrote:

The vast majority of homeless have issues that defy solutions. Mental illness and substance abuse is the underlying causation of homelessness.

Yes.. but most of those are on City streets

Not with family in RVs at campgrounds.. Those people have financial problems

X2. Too many jobs don't pay enough to pay all the bills as well as the sky-rocketing rent and housing costs.

X3!
It is a fact that housing cost are going crazy especially on the left coast. As a park host we see this often many work and are clean, but can’t afford rent or payments.
We full time as host right now, we are houseless, not homeless.
Most of the ones we see are good people down on their luck.
Oregon gives Veterans 10 days a month free for their service. So if husband wife are both vets they can get 20 days a month for no charge. They do need to change parks every 14 days same as any other campers.
We love what we are doing, currently in a closed park on the Oregon Coast, we are about 50’ off the beach with a great ocean view. We are protected from all winds except direct from the west and that just rattles the slide toppers.
We change parks every one to three months so the view is always changing.
We love dealing with campers and really enjoy the lifestyle.

CavemanCharlie wrote:
I didn't read all 4 pages of this thread.

I have a 27 year old Travel Trailer. I don't have a pit bull right now but, I've had one in the past and it was a great dog. I suppose you could call me unkempt and disheveled. I would love to camp next to you just to piss you off.

On second though, I don't want to camp next to someone with a RV that cost more then most houses, who has one of those annoying little ankle biter dogs, and is playing load opera music all night long. People like that are jerks.

I went to far with this post and I apologize.

After reading the OP's post I jumped to the conclusion that a lot of people on this site think that if you are a working class person with a older RV that you must be homeless, a drug addict, a person to be feared, a person with a mean dog, or, in some other way, a bad person in general.

I should not have generalized all RV owners like that and I'm sorry.

MrWizard wrote:

The vast majority of homeless have issues that defy solutions. Mental illness and substance abuse is the underlying causation of homelessness.

Yes.. but most of those are on City streets

Not with family in RVs at campgrounds.. Those people have financial problems

X2. Too many jobs don't pay enough to pay all the bills as well as the sky-rocketing rent and housing costs.

The vast majority of homeless have issues that defy solutions. Mental illness and substance abuse is the underlying causation of homelessness.

Yes.. but most of those are on City streets

Not with family in RVs at campgrounds.. Those people have financial problems

2oldman wrote:

MNRon wrote:
People that “love to piss others off” are hurting our country regardless of where they are on the socioeconomic ladder.

x2, even from the very top.

X3. We certainly have enough hate, intolerance and lack of respect in this country these days.

MNRon wrote:
Sorry, not trying to turn this political with my last post...but...trying to get each of us to look at ourselves in the mirror and try to help advocate for improvement for this segment of our population instead of just trying to push them into a corner we don’t have to see...

With the economy the way it is, it is highly likely the problems these people have run deeper than just offering a helping hand. Does anyone actually know people who are at a minimum high school educated and physically capable who cannot find employment? The vast majority of homeless have issues that defy solutions. Mental illness and substance abuse is the underlying causation of homelessness. Treatment options exist, yet most of the homeless either unwilling or unable to seek out and accept that treatment. Our society does not, and perhaps should not, allow for the forced incarceration of these people into institutions and treatment facilities keeping them there until they can rejoin productive society. If anyone has an answer, I am sure there are plenty of people willing to listen and implement a truly workable program.

If these people are complying with all the campground rules and regs, they have every right to have a space and occupy it UNDER THE RULES. Age of their rig, beauty or ugly, makes absolutely no difference other than it offends your finer sensibilities. On the other hand, if they are not paying their rent, violating campground rules or local zoning or health department ordinances, you have every right to be upset. The rules are for everyone and should be applied equally, regardless of their appearance or the age of their rig. If the rules are not being applied equally, you have the option to move or to make your displeasure known to the owners/managers.

MNRon wrote:
Moderators - unfortunately might be time to shut this one down. There are jerks across the spectrum in America, just like there are good, kind people across the spectrum. I would love our country to be kinder and more empathetic, but don’t think we should tolerate intolerance. People that “love to piss others off” are hurting our country regardless of where they are on the socioeconomic ladder.

Yep, this thread was bad from the get go. However, more sympathetic posts than usual for nasty General RVing Issues threads. There's hope.

MNRon wrote:
Moderators - unfortunately might be time to shut this one down. There are jerks across the spectrum in America, just like there are good, kind people across the spectrum. I would love our country to be kinder and more empathetic, but don’t think we should tolerate intolerance. People that “love to piss others off” are hurting our country regardless of where they are on the socioeconomic ladder.

Well said.

MNRon wrote:
People that “love to piss others off” are hurting our country regardless of where they are on the socioeconomic ladder.

x2, even from the very top.