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Without having to depend on the job market, people are free to move to areas with no work and a very low cost of living, and not be bunched up in the areas with the best handouts.

The net result will probably be higher costs of living everywhere, but in the US there is so much space that the effect is diluted.

[ticviking]

Add to that the increased demand for basic services in those areas, and you'll wind up with something that looks an awful lot like economic growth in those areas.

Add to that the ability to grow food for oneself, and I bet we see lots of people move somewhere they can rent a home with a large garden, and turn their basic income into a small scale farm with extra earned income at local farmers markets. As that money moves around in a community, even if %40 of every pay cycle is extracted by walmart, the local economy has people who have time to build small bussinesses. Now a mom and pop store doesn't have to support the family, it just has to pay the rent on the store and bring in enough extra money and or good will/personal satisfaction that mom and pop keep it running.