Privacy?

0rion wrote:

Jloucks wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
Let's put it another way to try and get a definite answer.

If there's a 200 site campground and all the sites are alike - no rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. They're all the same length of site and are all in the forest - no views. Say it's off season and there are only a handful of campers there.

So the question is, why would someone in the above circumstances, park right next door to another RV?

If they did, I think the real answer is because they need the security of people. People nowdays are used to being connected to others - all the social sites, Facebook, etc. and many constantly hold their phone in their hands checking their texts and waiting for it to ring. Folks seem to need ready access to people. That's my theory.

I think it is pretty much a known fact that humans are social creatures. Funny thing is.. camping humans, on average, sway the other way. ...sometimes. Other times, they park right next to you. It really is just that simple.

So, technically, the anti-people people are the exception. ...there are just more of this exception when camping.

Look where most people work - Jammed in with other people
Look where most people live - Right next door to other people
...school...
...sports...
...movies...

So camping is a surprise?!

to explain the anti's I think you need to look at the actual act of camping. When people camp they like to think they're bonding with nature or somehow making do with less than they normally would. Of course this is after they've spent 30 minutes setting up their $40k rig and putting out all the tiki torches, entrance rugs, folding gravity chairs, awning lights, hooking up to 30amp shore power, water line, and sewer. After that though....it's all about roughing it.