On 17/04/2021 14:47, tim... wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 17/04/2021 13:31, Steve Walker wrote:
I have the "choice" of car (20 minutes each way) or train/bus (1-1/2
to 2 hours each way ... allowing for them not connected to the times
I need to arrive and leave, connections between them, etc.) Not using
the car would simply mean having little time to get anything done in
the evening, to spend with my family or to go out. Life would just
turn into a constant round of getting up, going to work, coming home,
cooking and cleaning, going to bed ready to get up early the next
morning. That's no life.

Before cars, people simply lived on bus or train routes.

before cars

people lived within walking distance of work

Yes and lived **** lives because they could not get decently paid jobs
or spent many hours of the day travelling back and forth.

How is an engineering design company, needing qualified and experienced
engineers and designers, to work if it can only recruit people that can
walk to the office? What when a worker's spouse needs to be at their
employment in another location? What when work and affordable housing
are not available in the same location? What when someone changes jobs
and their spouse must change theirs and their children change schools?
What when suitable work is some distance away, but you have caring
responsibilities that require you to live where you are?

Just accept that work, home, family cannot easily all be in the same
location these days and people have to travel - unless we are all to go
back to a pre-industrial, agrarian society.