The only Rom I knew well was thinking of leaving the road and settling down. He didn't like the company that was on the road with him, he didn't like the total shit they left on the sites where he had once been used to stopping, and he didn't like the way that he was 'tarred with the same brush as them'.
However, he also didn't like to pay income tax, he didn't like the fact that his kids had to be registered at every school that they attended, and he DID expect to get free medical treatment on the National Health. (This was in England, when treatment was mostly paid by the taxpayer.)

In a book I once read, the locals were very much against the Navigators who were building the canals. It seems they were violent, drunks, thieves, and they left shit behind them. They were also mostly English, born and bred.
It doesn't take much intelligence to see the pattern, does it?