To be honest, this really fucking bugs me, but it seems to be 100% true from my experience. Especially in busking or street performance, get some snazzy outfits and refine your act and now you have performance art, not dirty beggars. You will be amazed how much more you pull down, and will actually start being offered paid gigs! This whole election cycle has seemed to really polarize the country, and both sides are against our sort of people. This scares me. So, I decided that I need to try and blend better since my living situation is sort of grey area. Shaving, clean shoes, and going the extra mile to make sure my boat looks neat and tidy has transformed my acceptance by the boating community. With scraggly beard dirty pants and sandles I am a transient, but with decent shoes, shaved, and cleanish pants, slap some cheap paint on the boat now people call me a "yachtsman" and solicit work for me to repair their boats, which I begrudgingly decline do to health issues. My situation is that of if the community I am in atm dispels me, I am shit out of my last luck. The thing is though, my life has actually transformed. Financially I am tapped out, and morally I am a vagrant. Put on a clean shirt and touch up your varnish, next thing you know you are being invited aboard some really nice vessel for awesome food and free drinks! Also, I really really really do not want to piss off the coast guard in my area. If my boat looks decent they ignore me completely even if someone calls to bitch. Then I know the spot is no good cause they just give me a couple flashes with the strobe to signal to move on in the morning, instead of boarding me to tell me to leave right now. Also I have started to develop a sense of pride for my boat. It works right, it looks nice, and it is because I put the time to make it that way, which makes me feel good.