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And yet somehow, back in the days when family sizes were larger and car ownership rates were lower, people managed. I think our baselines have shifted: We've
by bunderbunder 12y ago
And yet somehow, back in the days when family sizes were larger and car ownership rates were lower, people managed.
I think our baselines have shifted: We've become so accustomed to living in places that are designed around the assumption that everyone owns at least one car that it's becoming hard to even imagine things that were just everyday life less than a century ago.
- tsotha 12y agoPeople managed because women didn't work.
- sukilot 12y agoWomen worked, as full+ time homemakers. For example, by hauling groceries like an ox instead of using a car.
- bunderbunder 12y agoYep. And the distance they'd have to haul them could be as great as 6 whole blocks, judging by the density of former neighborhood groceries in the historic neighborhood I used to live in. Conversely, I suspect the density of Snap Fitness locations was much lower. But you have to take the bad with the good. Incidentally, in my (currently) single-income family I'm expected to pick up groceries on the way home from work. When we were two income, we'd share that responsibility. Historical chore assignments were a product of more than one factor, and I don't think anyone would suggest that all of them were desirable.