THe right to roam is SO precious. I'll never understand how either private individuals or big companies can own land and prohibit people from using it, particularly if it's the coast, rivers, or forests. It belongs to everyone. Parcelling up nature and profitting from it and us complying with it? Yeah nah. I'll always jump the fence. I do - land near me has mushrooms I like to eat! I have to go in ninja mode, but I feel good doing it.

I've lived in the kind of ramshackle encampments you describe. Sometimes it can be people who just don't FIT or don't want to fit JUST YET in the life society has mapped out for them. There's a freedom in doing that - sure, it could be avoiding obligation or responsibility - but to who? to what? All of a sudden you've got a mortage and kids and a job to maintain it all and you're feeling utterly trapped by a life you didn't choose.