I have to privately smile when I read the comments such as here. What comes around, comes around.
As is known, I am a cattle rancher and a long time RVer. I have noticed that from time to time, in fact often, I find someone camped on some of our property here in the Mountains of Colorado, and almost always from some town or city. Since our privatly owned ranch land is mostly mountain land and there are no buildings in sight of 99 percent, city people usually think that it is OK to just drive on, and set up a camp. And rarely do they ask permission. Almost never in fact. They just pull off the county road in a night grassy spot along a creek, with some trees, and set up camp.
Yet, it seems to be getting more common that when my wife and I arrive in a town or city, we find that it is frowned upon for us to park on the side of a public street even if we are out of weay of traffic. Fortunately We almost always find parking overnight at a Wal Mart, a truck stop, and sometimes even in a city park. But not on a public, low traveled street. Recetnly we pulled off hte highway onto a side street in a small town, parked off the highway around the corner from a local restaurant to go in for lunch. When we returned in less than an hour, there was a parking ticket on our truck stating, "No campers parking permitted". Naturally, although we travel through that town 4 or 5 times each year, we will never stop or do business there again.
So long as the campers on our land have considerqation, do not cause damage, and do lot leave trash, I usually just stop and visit with them and try to make friends. But, I sometimes privately wonder what they would do if I stopped and camped in front of their property in town, even on a public street.