I'm sure other people will have good advice to give you, but i can tell you sleeping rough in cities is generally pretty easy, and fairly low-risk. I typically bury my wallet somewhere I can find it again in the morning, and then sleep somewhere fairly central. Look at google maps for big parks with vegetation to hide in.

>>2850331
how good are your blowjob giving skills?

>>2850331
What kind of weather do you expect? If it's gonna look like typical late fall, I would recommend you to find a possibly warm building where you can sleep in a staircase or somewhere

>>2850331
I have some experience staying for free in towns, just from when i do thru hikes and hitch into town near the end of the day and decide to spend the night but dont want to pay for a place to stay, the main thing is just finding a low light, low travel area, most places you can just lay down and nobody will notice you but sometimes it feels like public areas are built to be anti homeless when you are trying to find a spot

underneath a staircase, under a picnic table, in a bush, alleyway, public park, gazebos, homeless shelter, picnic shelter one time i even just asked a person if i could sleep on their porch and they said yeah

my only other tip is dont set up your bed while its light out or people are around, just hang out and then once its dark enough set up your bed and be sure to get up and go before dawn

Serious reply here from one of those obnoxious backpacker types..... stay in an airport, they are open 24/7, very secure and warm compared to a train station or bus station. Even if you aren't flying you can get a bus there.

>>2850331
I don't know what the fuck everyone else is smoking but I disagree with pretty much all of the advice here so far.

If you're traveling to take an exam, you 100% have to prioritize your sleep, comfort, nutrition, and overall wellbeing so this whole trip isn't a complete waste. Maybe on the leg home you can be a bum, but absolutely not the days or hours leading up to it.

Do not sleep on a bench, do not sleep in an airport (that will be so so far from where you're going anyway, it won't save you any trouble to go to the nearest airport for a few hours, that anon is literally retarded), do not find an alley or a dry piece of concrete. If you're legit traveling to take an exam (assuming attaining some kind of qualification) I can guarantee you can find people to look after you overnight, even if it's just finding a hostel (c'mon like $30 a night some places, depending where you are).

Or just borrow money temporarily from anyone. DO NOT DO A FUCKING HOMELESS WEEKEND just to make this work. You'll be dead tired to your bones and that defeats the whole point. Don't do any of this shit, please.

>t. someone who has been a traveling backpacker for years, and then nearly homeless for a year, and then actually homeless, and then after so much toil I crawled back into society. the moment I hit a bench in a state park I was 100% gone forever, one day playing homeless wrecks your whole place in life. if it wasn't for two very caring friends I wouldn't be back to good.

Anyway my point is, if this one thing on one day is important, just do it properly.

>>2850378
Have you been to an airport in the last 23 years? They don't let you past the ticket counter anymore unless you have a ticket. Sleeping in the terminal doable but where the fuck are you going to sleep in front of the ticket counter and baggage drop off?

>>2850382
>the moment I hit a bench in a state park I was 100% gone forever, one day playing homeless wrecks your whole place in life. if it wasn't for two very caring friends I wouldn't be back to good.
ok nancy reagan. let me guess you took one hit of meth and became addicted for life too..

>>2850331
This exam, is it at a college or university?
Whats the rough temperature you're dealing with?
Do you have a car to work with or you're on public transport?

>>2850389
ive slept at the baggage carousel area a few times. if you look like a normal person its even comfier. if anyone messes with you just say you took an early flight cause it was way cheaper and your friend wont be up until like 8am to come get you or some shit.

>>2850378
Seconding this. I've been all over the US and Europe living in airports. Once spent a year living in an airport when I was younger and very poor. Airports are the way to go.

>>2850394
I’m not him but I can tell you haven’t experienced what he’s talking about.

The worst part of being homeless is the sleeping. You can’t let your guard down ever and you train yourself to become hyper aware of everything. I haven’t been homeless in 10 years and I still haven’t gone back to normal sleeping patterns and I’m an extremely light sleeper. There’s a reason every homeless person looks like they age 5 years for every one normal year and it’s not the drugs and alcohol. The lack of comfort is insanely unhealthy

>>2850432
Bro it's just camping with a little more hiding than usual.

>>2850331
Depending on where you are, there might be some anons who can lend you a couch for the evening. I know I would, and taking an important exam on shitty hobo sleep is a bad idea. I assume you're totally broke, but if you have the money, you shouldn't try to save it by sleeping outside.
Whatever you do, don't go to shelters or anything. Concealing yourself is your biggest priority.

>>2850378
This is what i did, staying in a train station actually, open 24/7
>>2850382
All hotels are full
>>2850446
Problem solved, thanks anons sleeping in train station

>>2850447
Let me know how that goes. Train stations are bastards if you even miss a train and try to fall asleep in a chair from exhaustion.

>>2850447
not hotels, hostels.

>>2850404
You'd get thrown out

>>2850436
And being woke up by a cops spot light or waking up with a tweaker trying to light you on fire

>>2850331
i can't say these might work but you could try :
> go to a church and ask someone nicely
> if your tinder game is decent then find a chick and stay over her place for the night (possible additional benefits)

>>2850382
>the moment I hit a bench in a state park I was 100% gone forever, one day playing homeless wrecks your whole place in life
can you elaborate on this?

>>2850331
You can't spell shit, so you're probably an idiot who won't pass the exam, whatever it is. Going to another city will not make your shitty situation any better.

>>2850331
You're in the city, go to the nearest hospital, find one of the surgery waitng room, nap.

Enjoy.

>>2850331
> great advice to look homeless
bad idea you will be treated worse by both homeless and regular people.

>>2850331
what city? cant give good advice without knowing

>>2850447
train stations are heavily policed to keep out bums and vagrants trying to sleep there, the ones that arent heavily policed are already filled with homeless people

>>2850993
It's just a level of resignation you don't want to cross. Once you become comfortable, and accept, being a bunch bum it means you're already most of the way down a slippery slope.

>>2850382
lol I went camping in a cave then the next morning I went and passed the theory test to drive a heavy goods vehicle

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>>2850331
$19.95/day you can rent this motherfucker. I get some cheap tape & paper for the windows from walmart. Can get an inflatable mattress & sleeping bag too for cheap. Hostels aren't an option in Canada and your cheapest airbnb will be $150+ in a major city.

>>2850331
can't you time your trip so that you sleep in the coach on the way to said city and then take the coach back that same day? or is this a multi day exam?

Did a bunch of this while backpacking.

Firstly there are places where it's just accepted people will squat if they're in transit. Train station foyers, airport waiting areas, depend on the location but they're usually well lit, well supervised, anywhere open 247 attracts this for security. I find that if you don't unpack anything, you're seen as someone in transit, they won't move you on because they figure you're gone the next day anyway, and don't want to try to move on a hundred people a year all of whom are just in transit.

Second, related, circular transit. Just staying on a train or bus loop, actually being in transit just to get somewhere safe and comfortable to sleep.
Drivers often accept this if it's locals they know, but you can boost your chances by telling the driver where you're getting off eg. Promising you will actually get off and not trying to force them to take you to the depot, paying for a ticket, not taking drugs. Even if you're not in drugs at the time, people can tell.

Not having anything that looks like trash, not littering, not smoking. Individual workers who are forced to clean up after hobos hate hobos. You either get that, or you don't.

Things to avoid:
End of the line. Never camp somewhere where people would get stranded, people in distress who have no plan, no options. So if you're sleeping at a bus stop, never pick the last one on a line. Hospitals, police stations, people end up there unexpectedly and are distressed and unpredictable.
Places people sell drugs. Not even drug addicts loiter there, drug dealers beat up people who loiter. You might not see a threat, but it's there. Psychos who prey on drug addicts will cruise these places, they are emphatically not empty, vacant, or supervised.
Sleeping on the ground. You'll get tuberculosis. Sleep sitting up.

Drinking till you pass out because you can't sleep. Easier said then done, but bad things happen to unconscious people.

Other things:
Informal accommodation.
You can offer people money for anything, you can pay a security guard who's stuck somewhere anyway, to not move you on. It's more that if they didn't care to begin with, they won't have to approach you later.

So for example near a train station if you loitered the guard might have to come over, wake you up, demand to know what you're doing. But if you approached the guard and just told them that you've got a five hour wait for your train, they will be like....OK...and? And then you can just go sit down and they'll be like...oh this MF going to sit for 5 hours in my lobby, damn. But they know why you're there, know that you'll leave, either they stop you straight away or won't bother you at all. They might offer you a smoke or a coffee if they're bored.

There are many businesses where loitering is fairly accepted, gyms, bath houses, gaming cafes, ok maybe you can't afford a room, but often it's not about the money it's about not having a booking, etc etc. Many people in certain countries, industries will just offer to put you up for the night. Gaming cafes open 24/7, if you book 5 hours or whatever at night they often just straight up ask if you want to sleep because they'd rather the computer free. Very Japanese, Chinese sort of thing.

You can beg anyone who's probably local and honest for a room, if nobody has ever asked them, they'll often say yes. Various gifts and good manners is key. I always carry gift items. That's the homeless guy who's homeless by choice, isn't distressed, isn't going to stab you.

I tend to advise against camping gear because that marks you as long term homeless, people think drugs, squatters, trash. So you don't use, or don't get seen with dedicated camping gear. Sit up against your bag, zip your spare clothes into your bag cover and use that as a pad, wear a jacket backwards. That's a dude who's waiting, in transit, a traveller, on the move.

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>sleep in city
>no reason at all just passing through and it was my chosen destination for the day
>normally go out innawoods but its at a real nice lakeside and it was a special milestone on the trip
>investigate
>find picrel right on the pier at the lakeside

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>>2853725
>go back to the city
>there was some fucking protest or idk what earlier that day
>pedestrian barriers everywhere
>well... here's my personal pedestrian barrier
>get all my shit up on that platform
>set up my barrier at the bottom so none of the lovevirds and drunks on the pier come visit
>didn't expect a flock of boomers all coming out at 4 or 5 to go fishing but other than that great night
>wake up like picrel
You got this OP