Comments on: Living in the Country is Expensive! http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/16/living-in-the-country-is-expensive/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Mon, 15 Sep 2014 01:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Deanne http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/16/living-in-the-country-is-expensive/#comment-52241 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:35:51 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-52241 Yep. You’ve perfectly summed up my sister’s life in the burbs. Don’t know how folks do it. Just one day of trying to pitch in with carpools is depressing. Always in the car? Never able to predict what’ll happen? Ugh!!!

]]> By: meropa http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/16/living-in-the-country-is-expensive/#comment-52238 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:20:07 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-52238 I do the reverse; live in East Lake and schlep to Jonesboro 5 days a week. Ugh.

]]> By: Ridgelandistan http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/16/living-in-the-country-is-expensive/#comment-51982 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:22:02 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-51982 That’s a very reasonable question but moot.
Postwar suburban residential developments are distributed, isolated, enclosed, connected only by speedways with a few access points, they feature curved internal roadways and cul-de-sacs and by design (and often law) do not permit commercial businesses within their perimeter. This pattern forces residents to access nearly all of their daily needs, education, employment and social contacts exclusively by the use of a personal automobile. A very wasteful and expensive mode that is fast becoming unsustainable.

]]> By: dantesvalley http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/16/living-in-the-country-is-expensive/#comment-51961 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:20:59 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-51961 I just took a quick look at this and wondered–is it useful and representative of actual behavior to assume that people live in the suburbs and travel to work downtown?

]]> By: cubalibre http://www.decaturmetro.com/2010/08/16/living-in-the-country-is-expensive/#comment-51959 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:10:27 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-51959 Even so, my answer still stands. Even if I added in maintenance & other extraneous costs (on two not-brand-new cars, mind you), it’s still nowhere near that. Further, if we, the owners of said vehicles, would find it very difficult to separate the proportion of these costs attributable only to the to/from work transport from that accruing from all of our other trips & such, I don’t believe this site would be able to do that with any amount of accuracy, either. Just from what’s posted there, it’s not really clear how they can arrive at such specific figures, because their methodology is by no means narrow.

I’m not saying the site doesn’t give an interesting point from which to project, or to get people thinking, I’m just saying that its actual utility seems limited.

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