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Originally Posted by LSTOWELL
No vehicle that you use to sleep and camp etc can be kept at your house..rent an RV spot..you can have at your house to load and unload 72 hours..don't take the chance of trying to park at your house..it's not your everyday vehicle
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This is where semantics can mean the difference between having to move your vehicle and not having to move it.
Anyone can sleep in any covered vehicle. There are students who can't afford room and board at their universities, who have been sleeping in their cars. There are homeless people who live out of their cars. Not vans, not trucks, not RVs. Cars. Just normal cars. Maybe hatch-backs. And as I said previously - I lived in my VW bus, on a twin mattress. The back set pulled down flat, and the mattress fit perfectly on top of it. There were 2 drawers underneath the seat, where I stored my clothing. I had a portable cooler - the kind you had to put ice in to keep it cool, for soda and juice. I parked it in a field that belonged to a farmer who I paid a few dollars every day for the privilege, and used his outhouse and outdoor shower to clean off.
It was not a camper. It was not an RV. It didn't have a pop-top or pull-outs or awnings, no plumbing, no electric hookup options. Just a passenger vehicle. And I lived in it for a summer in Canada.
I could've done the same with my subaru station wagon, though it wouldn't have been as spacious.
A normal car can absolutely be lived in, if circumstances required it.
The point is - "if you live in it or sleep or camp in it" is not criteria for what constitutes a camper. A camper is a very specific thing. It is distinguishable from any other car not by how you use it, but rather by how it was purposely designed to be used.