Many large cities have residency requirements for Police, Fire and EMS employees. A significant number pay 'rent' to someone on the job who owns property in the city. This allows them to provide a lease, water and electric bill, etc to prove residency. This has been going on for over 50 years. You guys are just new to the game!

So I would assume from your comment that you consider all sub-orbital flights useless. That they have no value. If that is the case, then under your line of thought we can shut down NASA Wallops Island and all the suborbital sounding rockets that are launched every year with various experiments. Then there is the sounding rocket launches from White Sands, and Poker Flats, and Regan Test Site and Andoya Test Site and Esrange Space Center and Woomera Rocket Range. All launching experiments on sounding rockets into suborbital space. Some missions from NASA, some from Universities, some from private industry. Are they all worthless simply because they are suborbital?

Now think about the folks who design the experiments carried on these sounding rockets. If routine access to suborbital space is possible not just on sounding rockets, but through human rated rockets, how might the experiments change? What if the persons creating these experiments could now ride along with them? How does such a new dynamic, never before possible, change how you design your experiments? What new experiments can be designed that need human interaction that could have never been flown on an uncrewed sounding rocket?

Just because something was done 5-10-25-50-100 years ago doesn't mean its worthless to do it today.