If your shelter in the city is a portable tent with no permanent living site you are viewed as a lowly, suffering, marginalized loser. If your shelter is a portable tent with no permanent living site while you're on a backpacking trip in the wilderness, you are lauded as an intrepid adventurer to be admired.  Funny how primitive camping can provoke diametrically opposite reactions depending on whether one is camping in a city area or a wilderness area.