Get a closer job or move closer to your job if it’s a good reliable job. I did and it’s fucking wonderful! Took a long time, a lot of work, and some luck but I can’t recommend it enough.
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Xanis@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Be American Living paycheck to paycheck Need job Good worker Work overtime when needed Trying to pay off car Smug biker does a driveby near open car window Rethink my life Realize U.S. infrastructure often requires vehicles In middle of daily 40min commute, one way Realize the same distance on bike would be two hours Depresso
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
drislands@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
just get a job closer to your home
just moveIdk man, not sure either of those are the easy solutions you’re implying them to be.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Go reread what I posted then because you clearly missed the part where I said it wasn’t easy but worth it.
suction@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Everyone employed is living paycheck to paycheck; you just spend it all
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Some lucky few still get to build up an emergency fund, possibly retire, or even become independently wealthy, but yeah, most of us are working class stiffs.
WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is why we need good public transit on top of good biking infrastructure. The two working together let’s you get anywhere a car can go while not taking a lot longer.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I miss Japan’s public transport. Never felt like I needed a car while in the city.
suction@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ohh ahh yes, that’s so unique to Japan!
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Chill bud. It’s possible to compliment an aspect of a society without going balls deep on the rest of it.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
They missed their chance, now it’s the Chinese 😁
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You’re not wrong, but that’s not going to work over the entire country. There’s just too much space to cover; the country would go bankrupt trying to provide mass transit everywhere that it’s needed. So while this could be, if you could convince people to actually do it, a solution in urban areas, it’s never going to work out in the thousands of miles of country and they have the exact same problems. They just have less traffic and more empty space to cross.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
We didn’t go bankrupt making a car-centric infrastructure, we won’t go bankrupt building adequate mass transit and micromobility infrastructure. In fact, we will probably profit greatly in myriad ways.
Piece_Maker@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Acktually a fair few counties in the US have gone bankrupt building car-centric infrastructure, because it’s ruinously expensive and doesn’t even come close to being covered by the taxation they put on cars. Mass transit and bike infrastructure costs are miniscule in comparison and sometimes even actively gain money.
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
I just spent a week in Texas in places that had plenty of people living and presumably working close together. The infrastructure is a hellscape of concrete and asphalt and monstrous pickup trucks. It has nothing to do with being a big country and everything to do with culture and policies.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
You realize the US used to have a comprehensive rail network, right?
WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I was specifically addressing people commuting to their job and traveling within their immediate area. That kind of stuff could definitely be covered by biking and better bus/light rail investment without having to go everywhere. The only people who wouldn’t be covered by that are people living in the country and they are a minority compared to those living in suburbs or near big cities and could still be served by public transit using park and ride stations if they have to travel to a bigger city. They would just drive to the closest park and ride station and then use the public transit to travel within the metro area. Of course if they’re traveling entirely within less populated country areas then public transit won’t serve them that well but at that point you can just use cars as a backup. But public transit investments could easily serve the majority of people for their daily travel needs and even if they do have a high cost the economic benefit of making it easier for people to commute to work and to cities for fun day trips will create more economic value over time being a net benefit in the long run.