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Whenever I'm sat in a four mile tailback at 6pm, I often look at everyone in the cars around me and, if they make eye contact, I give them a little nod and a sm
by KnobbleMcKnees 3y ago
Whenever I'm sat in a four mile tailback at 6pm, I often look at everyone in the cars around me and, if they make eye contact, I give them a little nod and a smile, as though to say, "We chose this. This was a great choice".
- nostrebored 3y agoMaybe you should live closer to work. The choice to live in sprawling cities and partaking in dystopian car culture _is a choice_.
- happytoexplain 3y agoMoving is a burden of a highly varying degree. The implication that it is a non-factor points to a fundamental absence of shared experience between you and the people you are criticizing.
- nostrebored 3y agoI have moved significantly more than the average person to do exactly what I’m talking about here. Without money, with money, without kids, with kids. I feel like I have a pretty reasonable amount of experience. It’s not that bad.
- skyyler 3y agoI don't make enough money to afford a place within an hour of where I work. Any advice? You seem to have answers.
- nostrebored 3y agoTake advantage of the fact that you can change companies to somewhere that provides you with enough compensation to live near your work. This might require a move. People have moved for work for centuries.
- skyyler 3y agoI actually had to move to take my current job. Any recommendations for places I can move to?
- doubled112 3y agoSure, simple. I'll just pack up my family of four and move to a bachelor apartment to save the commute. I choose to have a family, and I choose to work too, I suppose. Maybe $JOB will provide me a raise to do so.
- bluefishinit 3y agoPerfect argument for WFH. It doesn't get any closer to work than that.
- plagiarist 3y ago"Simply emigrate to another country, bud, you are choosing to live with the car culture"
- nostrebored 3y agoYou don’t have to emigrate to another country. I’ve lived in half a dozen U.S. cities with no car at this point.
- outside1234 3y agoAnd then what after he is laid off in 9 months by this job randomly? Buy a new place next to the new employer?
- nostrebored 3y agoWhy buy? Buying houses is a bad idea if you don’t have certainty or value the flexibility of moving.
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoI work for a company that's fully distributed, and do ~2k miles a year, almost exclusively to visit family. Your halfway-house "build your life around your career" mentality appealed to me in my early 20s when I was on starter salaries and was unmarried and childless. That is no longer the case and you couldn't - as I've had the pleasure of telling several interviewers - pay me to return to it.
- tbrownaw 3y ago> tailback I assume this is the thing that's called a "traffic jam" where I live?
- KnobbleMcKnees 3y agoI'm actually British but I was appealing to the er, status quo in this case!