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Post #14 by Mike Richardson
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateMon, 31 Mar 2008 - 01:25
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/i-know-this-is-a-bit-old-but-i-can-drive-finally.12565/
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Car-centered suburban living is a 60 year old fad, not a natural order of things, and this fad has run out of gas.
What are you supposed to do if you get a new job? Just move to where your job is? WTF?

We moved into a new house in 2002. The location was chosen because it was very close to mom's current job, and the schools were nice. It was a very lucky combination. My mom is getting older, though, and her job was stressful. She chose a new job working downtown. Of course that means driving a long distance to work every day. The neighborhoods surrounding her new place of employment are run down old shanty homes, OR, expensive new apartments built over some of the torn down shanty homes. Do you expect her to live in the ghetto neighborhood, or to pay $2000 a month for a cramped 1 bedroom apartment when she pays $1200 a month for a comfortable 3 bedroom house? Then I'm supposed to go to a school that has no good computer programs and gets maybe half the money per student than the high school I went to? We'll shop at stores frequented by the drug dealers and thugs? WTF?

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