Telling people to keep on having kids, while living in a 600-some square-foot tin can ... yuk, what chaos! Went to school with a girl who had grown up in that :/ It wasn't that mom and the girls were lazy - what it precisely was: there was NO ROOM to put anything anywhere - ever! And, like waay too many places, no back yard to speak of either - for the boys to even throw a football.
Anyway, i get so tired of hearing the same-old gas-lit accusations - that americans want the 3k square feet and the 2 car garage. Uhm, yeah! It's called having enough living space, so that in winter, the space heater in the living room has its three feet, and won't catch the place on fire. It's called having enough counter space in the kitchen to prepare a meal - and using the range for cooking only...not storage, either on or within, or even too close by.
As for the 2 cars, guess the quiverfull-pharisees didn't get that email, either...in short, if you live in America and want to make your dentist appointment, you'll most likely need to get there by car. Oh, and by the way, people (sisters, neighbors) are busy enough with their own situations, and really, absolutely, do NOT need the extra burden of playing taxi.
Pretty sad that two cars are necessary for a basic life in 95% of the US. Seniors are prisoners and being disabled means you will live a marginal life unable to go anywhere without great difficulty. In 1922 nobody anywhere was a prisoner without a vehicle. You could pay much of a mortgage today with the money you need from maintaining two vehicles. Never mind the wasted land mass on "free" parking, sprawl and the huge obesity crisis caused by nobody walking anywhere.
ReplyDeleteDear VeraL, if i didn't need a car to get to the busstop, to church, the store and such, i'd give it up in a second. The gas, insurance, maintenance and such is a money pit. But it is what it is.
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