doingthestuff

Where I live 90% of the homeless have cars, or are at least in a relationship with someone who has one. Many of them sleep in them. Because here you can live without a house but you can't live without a car. Walking or biking the roads is deadly. Like you WILL die. Poor people have cars.

It's probably not anywhere near the same situation. I lived a year in Nijmegen in the Netherlands and a year in Duesseldorf in Germany. I've ridden my bike from Duesseldorf to Belgium and back, including rural areas.

Where I live, the nearest bus route is 7km away, and it only goes downtown. I almost never go downtown except for concerts or sporting events, but that bus doesn't run after 6pm.

I can't bike. I've been stuck in this house since the market crash that happened in 2007-2008, I've been here 18 years and in that time I've seen two people try to commute on bikes, they both disappeared after less than a month. I hope they're alive.

I have seen more than a dozen bikes on the roadside in memorial of people who died. It's just deadly for bikes. Tons of huge trucks on narrow curvy lanes with no shoulder, just a ditch. And high speeds.

Rural houses around me are all on well/cistern water and septic systems. I'm not even clear how you'd run sewer way out without elevation gain towards the rural areas, isn't it largely dependent on gravity?

Eh, they'd just raise taxes to pay for it.

Ah. See, you're able to ride a bike and not die. My community is not there yet.

I'm not disagreeing with the post, but mass transit is completely non-existent where I live. We have so far to go.

It's also a weight decision. If you bring five American friends along, you just doubled the weight of the car.

We can't afford bigger burgers now anyway, the price of beef is insane. And when bigger burgers are desired, they'll sell "double quarter pounders". Not that Americans generally need bigger burgers anyway, but that's a different topic.

I haven't bought orange juice in over a year because the price almost tripled. I look at it longingly in the store sometimes though.

Narrator: they did not deliver the package.

When it's cold AF you love turning on the oven. My family eats crazy pizza, but not in the summer. The take out places near me aren't great. Of course cold places love pizza!

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