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I know for a while there was a guy living in his camper in the Google parking lot (and was an employee). They were even nice enough to allow him to hook up to their power, and he was in range of the wifi. He basically just went inside to shower and eat (and work of course). Not a bad deal. Not sure if they allow that anymore though.

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There have been many such people. You have to do it stealthily though, because if Google finds out, it has to kick you off campus due to zoning issues.

Any support the company gave is in the long past now.

I wonder, can you get away with it at the Mountain View Walmart? In most of the country Walmart is ok with letting people sleep in their cars/rvs there. But I could see the Mountain View location having different rules

This has actually changed and a fair amount of Walmarts don't allow this anymore. Which is sad because it was a big ideal of the founding of Walmart.

Wal-Mart likely intended for you to stay in the lot overnight after some shopping during your trip, not live there. Which is why a lot of Wal-Marts (or by new city ordinance) don’t allow it anymore.

Shit, I have sleeped in at least 15 walmart parking lots over the last year, and I have never had a problem.

Many Walmart’s have banned this type of activity due to people dumping raw sewage and trash everywhere. A few stealth camping YouTube channels talk about stuff like this.

During the boom, the Williston ND Walmart had to end the practice, but other Walmarts still allow it.

Walmart generally allows it, but if local ordinances don't, you can't. You can't in the Mountain View Walmart, I assume for that reason. I ended up there once on an 8 month road trip and they asked me to leave.

But there are so few good places in the valley that they may have had to disallow it in order to not become an RV lot.

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