A nonplussed character wearing a feathered leather hat and a backpack full to bursting says to a disgruntled man “aight it’s been real but im disappearing into the woods forever.”
The would-be hermit turns only his eyes toward the man as he raises his arms in frustration and shouts “you can’t just fuck off into the woods, you have to stay here!”
The man’s expression softens into confusion as his conversational parter’s backpack comes to the fore of his vision as he simply departs. A narrator adds “but he could. And he did.”
The traveler is seen at great distance as the man continues looking on. The narrator continues. “And no one ever saw him again.”
When the cops bust a homeless camp… they don’t just let the homeless people go. Also, after they find one, they patrol the area periodically… there are common sites they crop up. Sorry, it’s just not that easy to escape to unoccupied land, that is unpoliced. It’s a nice dream, but it’s not the reality of the world.
i think you are mixing two things together. these homeless people are not adventurer types that want to get off the grid for the sake of it - they just don’t have the roof over their head, but need to camp as close to civilization as possible, so they could still scavenge its scraps. they could go further, but there would be no supermarket to dumpster dive to.