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[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

My job is 18 mountainy miles away, and when I show up drenched in bicycle sweat everyone in the office says I smell bad

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

People shouldn't live that far away from their workplaces. They didn't used to, before we invented shitboxes.

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would love to live 5 minutes away from my workplace

But I saved about $300,000 on my mortgage when I bought a more rural house that isn't near the city/my office building

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If it's cheaper to live in the middle of nowhere, with water and electricity and internet needing to be piped all that way out there, and the gas bills, and the road wear, then the government has failed. High and medium density housing costs the government less in maintenance, stimulates the economy, and is cheaper to build. Any functioning economy would price those homes cheaper. If you're saving 300,000 by costing the government all that extra money and polluting the environment, someone fucked up on a colossal scale.

[–] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Welcome to every modern country, but especially North America.

[–] spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Spoilet alert: someone fucked up on a colossal scale.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saved about $300,000

Sold your own future lol.

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

How so, I have a place to live now

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