Turns out, spending 40 hours a week driving makes you pretty good at driving.

The world would be a better place if people spent more time recognizing and admiring skilled labor. Like even people who mostly just move and make things. The level of dexterity alone is just 👨‍🍳🤌💋

Literally the only people in vietnam who use their indicators and take care to avoid bikes. I'm more comfortable lane-splitting between 2 buses than being within 100 feet of a construction vehicle.

CANYONERRROOOOOO

And if we're going to go that route, I prefer "embrace the suck" as a more fun and helpful thought terminating cliche.

My husband is blue collar. He goes where things need to be fixed. Sometimes his commute is 15 minutes, but it's often 2 hours, when you factor in distance and traffic. A lot of blue collar deals with this, and yeah. We choose that shit over being homeless. His tech field laid him and everyone else off a few years ago.

The specific circumstance is your religious family indoctrinating you into thinking you have to have at least 6 children and then you have to move somewhere that you can afford that much space on one income. It’s extremely common in the US.

Sometimes you don't want to go for a walk, it can be because you're tired, or because the weather sucks. At that point public transit is best, but depending on how big your town/city is it may not be feasible to fund it properly.

In a walkable area, you don't buy for a week at a time, you buy what you need for a meal or two. Popping into the store is a pleasant, 10-minute diversion where you're likely to see friends and neighbors, not a 2-hour safari overland to the edge of nowhere. It means buying fresh, healthy food, rather than the giant pallets of highly-processed product that I see folks haul out of the CostCo.

its a subsidized transportation (bus), distance is around 80 km(49.7 miles) from where I live, its a semicon factory and I used to work there as an all around IT starter(support, basic admin, dbms, machine coms, etc.), I enjoyed what I did there thats why I stayed there for 3 yrs and endured that nasty ass commute.

I decided not to rent a nearby place because that would eat like 60% of my monthly salary.

sry for (kinda)trauma dumping , bit weird to do in a shitpost thread :) and yea...im kinda stupid

Can't play candy crush on the bus because then something bad could happen while I'm distracted

I don't bike unless I have to carry cargo or it's going to take more than an hour to walk, because of how hostile and aggressive drivers have become. I miss just getting on my bike without a care.

I used to have a grocery store that was about a 5 minute walk from my house, and even with a 5 minute walk, there were many things that I couldn't buy from the grocery store and walk back. Heavy things or bulky things. So I brought my own cart for those things. I also once lived a 15 minute walk from a grocery store, and I simply biked there.

What I'm saying is that people figure these things out. A 15 minute walk isn't bad for most people, even for groceries, but if it's only 15 minutes, they can probably figure it out.

Even when I lived very close to the grocery, I still frequently took a bus to go to a different grocery store that I liked. So, that's another option, living close to transit.

That's especially weird, since Piefed usually shows comments from crossposts too but didn't this time!