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| Mon, 11-05-2007 - 11:13am |
WOHMs - could you afford to take 3 months of totally unpaid leave?
- Yes, we have enough saved up for that
- Yes, we could save up enough for that
- Yes, DH makes enough to get us by
- No
- other
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And certainly there are people for whom all of those circumstances are true. For me, it would have to be an extreme situation (only one possible job, only one possible place to live, no public transportation, only one possible gas guzzling vehicle).
But that is extreme. For example, I choose to live somewhere with good public transportation. I choose to rent a (more expensive) house, so I can walk and take public transportation to work. I chose a job that is with in a walkable/"public transportationable" distance from my house. Because I made those choices, I can choose not to drive in the snow, but I haven't had problems driving even on terrible WV roads (widing, icy, narrow) in non-4-wheel-drive cars. Not to mention that there are several smaller vehicles with 4-wheel-drive, if I felt I needed 4-wheel-drive.
In some parts of the US, affordable housing may be an hour or more commute away from the actual jobs. It may simply not be possible for people to live closer to the job. I really hate that, but blame years of very poor city planning. Add in a truly lousy public transportation system and people really and truly are stuck.
It's not really even bad yet in the US. We currently pay $7.50 per gallon of gas. If it hits that kind of price in the US, people will be stuck having to choose between gas and food because they won't have any alternative ways to get to work.
we moved to the nw side of town because the commute was getting just too long.
I guess. I'm just used to NH where everything is at most and hour from everything else -- and most of the jobs are in two -three cities.
Yes. We. Did.
It is basically me saying to you that you can give up such and such (something you like and would never think of getting rid of it at all, ever) that I find unnecessary and a waste of money.
Daycare DOES prevent us from saving for 6 months and I will never deny that. There is nothing in my budget that I would cut out for those 6 months and just continue to make interest on my savings during that time. This was our last year so we won't have that problem starting next September.
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