On 17/04/2021 15:27, Steve Walker wrote:
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?

By building houses for them.


^What when a worker's spouse needs to be at their
employment

Workers spouses didnt need employment. They kept the home and looked
after the children and actsed as community policemen as well.


in another location? What when work and affordable housing
are not available in the same location?

Then you move the work or pay the workers more. Why the **** do you
think that the northern industrial towns even exist? They are built
where water power or coal power and sheep were not far away. People
moved there or starved.


What when someone changes jobs
and their spouse must change theirs and their children change schools?

People didnt do that, then.

What when suitable work is some distance away, but you have caring
responsibilities that require you to live where you are?

Then move
Or get another job

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.

********. The industrial age had **** all transport. You mean
retreating from a post war consumer society rat race. Well it would be
no bad thing


and with the internet work doesn't need to be further away than a laptop


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