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> For the off chance that once a year they might need to take some extra large load (e.g. help a friend with moving) This sounds like something a caucasian sin
by lhorie 8y ago
> For the off chance that once a year they might need to take some extra large load (e.g. help a friend with moving)
This sounds like something a caucasian single person would say.
Anyone with small kids would immediately have to think about the logistics of child car seats plus a stroller/wagon (at a minimum), plus whatever else would be appropriate to bring to the target destination (e.g. chairs and a cooler box for a picnic). Those are certainly not thing people do in an off-change.
Also don't forget cultures with tight-knit families (e.g. indians) where it's not uncommon for grandparents to live with you (and by extension travel with you) as well.
- michaelt 8y agoAnyone with small kids would immediately have to think about the logistics of child car seats plus a stroller/wagon [...] Sure, but you can fit a 4-person family [1] into a Toyota Corolla, even with car seats and a stroller. I've seen it done plenty of times. My theory is the increasing car sizes are driven by increasing waist sizes; a 220 lb couple could be cramped in a car their 140 lb grandparents might have found plenty large enough. [1] The average family is 3.14 persons in the US in 2017 according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/183657/average-size-of-a-family-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/183657/average-size-of-a...
- lhorie 8y agoOh sure, but "plenty of times for a subset of people for a subset of destinations" is a different thing than "every time for everyone for all destinations" (and a very real reason why people buy big cars in real life). When I was a kid, we could fit 4 of us (me, my 2 brothers and my grandma) in the back of a Civic since we were all scrawny and lol what's a backseat seatbelt in Brazil in the 80s, but now as an adult with 2 toddlers and their grandparents, a whole-family trip in a Civic to Costco to buy diapers and paper towels would be interesting to say the least.
- jpindar 8y ago>caucasian WTF? White people don't have trucks (or SUVs) and families?
- lhorie 8y agoMale caucasian singles often don't realize that there are cultures where your parents or in-laws come to live with you (often for several months) when your kid is born. Of course caucasians buy SUVs too...