Comment on Anon rides a bike

Mojave@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People shouldn’t live that far away from their workplaces. They didn’t used to, before we invented shitboxes.

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  • Mojave@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would love to live 5 minutes away from my workplace

    But I saved about $300,000 on my mortgage when I bought a more rural house that isn’t near the city/my office building

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    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If it’s cheaper to live in the middle of nowhere, with water and electricity and internet needing to be piped all that way out there, and the gas bills, and the road wear, then the government has failed. High and medium density housing costs the government less in maintenance, stimulates the economy, and is cheaper to build. Any functioning economy would price those homes cheaper. If you’re saving 300,000 by costing the government all that extra money and polluting the environment, someone fucked up on a colossal scale.

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      • zeekaran@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Welcome to every modern country, but especially North America.

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      • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Spoilet alert: someone fucked up on a colossal scale.

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    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I saved about $300,000

      Sold your own future lol.

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      • Mojave@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How so, I have a place to live now

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• RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You could get a decent e-bike?

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “But they’re so expensive, I’m not paying that much for a bike! I’d rather pay 10 times as much for cheap car that’ll sell all my text messages to data scraping companies.”

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    • Mojave@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bro my car cost $4k, has no radio and manual windows, if this 20 year old civic and sell my data, it’s earned it

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      • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Even more reason to get an e-bike lol. Too late I guess since you already decided to pay 4000 dollars for a shitty car. :p

        4k for a top of the line e-bike.

        3k for a decent e-bike.

        Or 5k for the best e-bike in the world.

        None of these have radios either. And you don’t have to work up a sweat by rolling down the windows because there’s no windows!

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• SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can get an E-Bike or other personal electric vehicle if you want. Eco-friendly, inexpensive, fun, and won’t leave you drenched in sweat.

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• suction@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the downside bike enthusiasts like to gloss over about - and in summer it doesn’t even have to be mountainous.

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