Actually I have.  I have moved between WA and CA and now back home.  I do understand the costs around moving.  I made a comment to someone else that the individual needs a plan.  It could be as simple as go to shelter, get job, save, move out to rental, save, move to mainland.  Many don't even think that way.  They find resourceful ways to bend the rules rather than working a regular job and being an able-bodied individual contributing to society.