wanderlyst said:
Do you/full time nomads like to be "stealthy" around normal/housekeeping folk? Does it really matter if they view you as "low life scume" as MrNoodly said earlier? What else can come of house folk knowing you live in your vehicle, RV, or trailer?
There was a thread here some time back about a guy who was taking pictures of anyone on the street who had an RV or could conceivably be in a vehicle they could be sleeping in. They were on streets they legally had free access to, and it wasn't an issue of them being dirty, loud, or obstructing anyone or anything. He simply was incensed at the idea of travelers in his neighborhood, even though his neighborhood wasn't a particularly remote or private one.
Anyway, if I recall correctly, he was publishing those photos on the web and complaining vociferously even when told that those spaces were not restricted and nobody was doing anything wrong. I think he pushed it to other extremes, but don't want to expand on that too much because my memory is a bit fuzzy. However, one of our best-known contributors here bumped into him and laid it out in greater detail.
Anyway, all that is to say that there are people who will get upset for bad reasons or no reason as well as good reason, and you have to take them into account too. They may do anything from annoy you to frighten you to vandalize you to complain to you about the cops and even lie about you. So it makes sense not to let people get themselves wound up about your presence. A lot of people feel angry about life in general, and it hardly matters who you are or what you did or did not do to people like that: if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, you're going to take it in the neck and they're going to love giving it.
So ... if not being attacked or screwed over is important to you, proceed with caution when it comes to ruffling people's feathers. A lot of people were born with excuses to behave badly, so you don't want to trigger them or give them another one. If nothing else, you can count on their local community to support them right or wrong, as opposed to a stranger.