only 50 years ago hardly anyone had a car and we used to manage,
but now we're all supposed to need one each, that's what I can't get my head round. How has that happened? It seems like things have got worse.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:18, archived)

Presumably because people now are happy to live a long way from where they work, and therefore 'need' a car to get there.
Personally I like living near where I work, and would hate to lose a couple of hours of every day to a commute.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:20, archived)

me too,
apparently people now travel twice as far to work on average than they did only 20 years ago, or something like that. It's competition in the job market that causes this sort of thing.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:22, archived)

Um, because industry has changed. People used to live where they worked, which is why we have row upon row of terraced housing in big cities.
Given a choice, would you live right next to a factory you worked in? I doubt it. Car = option to live somewhere not shit.
( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:21, archived)

I wouldn't mind living within two miles of it,
which is easily walkable.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:24, archived)

Indeed.
My journey to work involves a two-mile walk both ways, which is about 25 minutes.

Of course, I "cheat" and travel the other 16 miles by train.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:28, archived)

What if it's a foundary or an abbatoir?
Bear in mind that if everyone lives near to their work then all your neighbours will also be your colleagues. You'll never get away from them. You'll inbreed and the freaky offspring will all work at the same place and so it goes on. Outsiders will be feared. The cycle will never be broken. If you want to see it for real visit a pit village. Then hurry back to lovely cosmopolitan Edinburgh.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:29, archived)

I grew up in a pit village.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:31, archived)

That explains a lot.

( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:31, archived)

I wasn't born in one,
fortunately.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:35, archived)

You can fit a hell of a lot of people in a 1-2 mile radius.
You'd only be likely to bump into colleagues if you worked in an enormous place, in which case you'd barely know any of them anyway.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:33, archived)

I don't know what it's like where you work,
but there are plenty of nice areas within 2 miles of where I work, despite it being fairly close to central Sheffield.
( my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 19:35, archived)