Yeah, UBI of a certain amount makes it possible for lower income folks to move further from areas they normally wouldn’t. I saw some poor native person break do

Yeah, UBI of a certain amount makes it possible for lower income folks to move further from areas they normally wouldn’t. I saw some poor native person break down the costs of how they wouldn’t need to live near a major metro anymore off of solely $12k / year. Healthcare is important of course but you can’t buy food and shelter with your healthcare unless you go to an emergency room. Hell, I’ve heard stories of some people that will go to emergency rooms and fake some symptoms just to get a bed and a meal. That’s just so damn sad and wildly inefficient uses of systems already overloaded. And really, so many problems in health for poor people come from lack of hope and/or money which BI trials have shown are drastically improved. Long-term I have few doubts that (U)BI will improve health outcomes in aggregate even without any adjustments to the rather shitty US system. Having a lot of the poor simply leave these metro areas can reduce some demand for lower income housing as well as increase wages for the lower skill jobs of a region - it’s been shown repeatedly throughout the past few years in every country basically and how the stimulus checks didn’t do anything to rents either. When our poor don’t stomp on each other they can get some better market leverage through indirect collective action.