They had noplace else to go; that's why they were living in the ruins among the detritus of war.

You got noplace by running from them.

As Maniac considered what to say, the urchins peeped from behind him: “We wasn’t noplace, John. We was right here. With this here kid. And he ain’t no cop neither. We checked him out.”

“It’s an ugly, windswept noplace for 90% of the year.”

Only after he was starving and sleeping in flophouses did he tell them, “I’ve got no money and noplace to go,” and they were angry with him.