I've been playing through as my survival character, it's pretty fun if a bit frustrating at times (the Mechanist's lair was a total fuckfest for me, since there's only one bed in the entire building and that's 4/5ths of the way into the level, kept dying and reloading at the East Boston prep school nearby and had to sit through two loading screens to get back into the lair.)
Apart from that I know where most beds are out in the wastes now, there's a nice one to the east of the South Boston military checkpoint, up on the bridge there's a little camp with a few cats and a good view of the surrounding area.
I'm playing as a raider guy, Starlight is my raider camp and most other settlements i've just killed everyone living there. Hoping the Nuka World DLC adds more functionality to that (and hopefully the option to give your settlers raider names, but i'm not expecting that.)