You could get a decent e-bike?
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Mojave@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My job is 18 mountainy miles away, and when I show up drenched in sweat everyone in the office says I smell bad
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 4 months 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.”
Mojave@lemmy.world 4 months 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
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 4 months 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.
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!
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 4 months 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.
suction@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s the downside bike enthusiasts like to gloss over about - and in summer it doesn’t even have to be mountainous.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
People shouldn’t live that far away from their workplaces. They didn’t used to, before we invented shitboxes.
Mojave@lemmy.world 4 months 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
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 4 months 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.
zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Welcome to every modern country, but especially North America.
spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Spoilet alert: someone fucked up on a colossal scale.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Sold your own future lol.
Mojave@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How so, I have a place to live now