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Before cars, people lived convenient for work
People got a job in a local factory and worked there all their lives, and the wives didn't work.
So good for transport, not great for life experiences IMO. I'd go mad.
The people who work in the area that at the moment have to commute from towns
Oh, right. They'll become villages again. I wouldn't guarantee they'll be any more affordable though. Retirees, footballers, high tech types will probably see to that!
People got a job in a local factory and worked there all their lives, and the wives didn’t work.
First part true, second part not so much. One side of my family didn't travel more than a few miles from where they started nearly 200 years previously. You could wave at about 30 relatives on one bus route.
The wives all worked though, they had to.
So good for transport, not great for life experiences IMO. I’d go mad.
These day with telecommuting etc, you can have all the good but avoid most of the bad.
Some of the answers were early in the thread.
I commute a whole 2 miles to my office, pick up a van and then travel the UK and a bit of Europe. I do around 30 kmiles a year. Traffic isn't that bad but then I like to start early and finish early.
That's fine until I turn up at offices where I can't disturb the staff as they'll be on the phones so can I arrive at 5pm?
So I then have to travel in rush hour, add to the the queues just because companies insist the staff are there, when in this day and age it's just not needed.
I'll be using equipment that weighs approximately 60kg so public transport is out.
The office monkeys can I assume use a phone/computer that since the 1980s pretty much every home has.
So why the need to travel into a major town/city to operate those devices?