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Are you assuming most homeless people own cars? Or are you just looking at gas prices/distance as a proxy for "ease to get away"? Maybe it'd be better to look

• brudgers 7y ago
  Gas money smells relateable to broad spectral segments. Cars are how Americans usually get places. Most people know the price of gas. But I'm not assuming that the population in the article own cars. It's the unsheltered. They sleep rough. A car would be a step up in terms of shelter. On the street, gas money is still more than a proxy. For the carless, gas money is an ordinary way to get a ride in someone else's car. Just now, the lowest fair on the Greyhound website for San Francisco to Atlanta six months (4/20/20) from today was $186 and 62 hours. I used six months because that seems like a reasonable lead time for a planned relocation. I used Atlanta because it is a lower cost metro with a lot of opportunity and moderate weather. The lowest cost ticket to Atlanta tomorrow (10/21/19) is $217. Denver is $156 and leaves at 11pm. Chicago is also $217 at 11pm. I'd need convincing that Denver or Chicago is a better unsheltered living option than San Francisco. On the one hand, even a Prius is unlikely to get you to Atlanta for $217. On the other hand, you can't take a lot of worldly possessions on the bus and two or more people can't share the cost of transportation.