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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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What do all these ethanol plants being built mean to her business?
Ethanol is going to be a huge part of her business.
Did you know that 80% people living in small towns live and work in the same county? Did you know that in metropolitan areas more workers commute from suburb to suburb than from the suburbs to the central city?
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/CIAIIIfacts.pdf
Yes and Angie is one of them.
I'm not sure that really means very much. A county can be pretty big (thinking Iowa counties) and necessitate a fair bit of communting from home to work everyday. It also doesn't say anything about the types of jobs people are doing (may well be mostly of the MacDonald's or Walmart variety).
Suburb to suburb commuting I can perfectly well understand. Take one example: Cupertino (where Apple Computers is located) is a suburb. It is also a completely unaffordable suburb for the vast majority of people who actually work at Apple. In order to be able to afford any kind of housing, most people must live in other, less expensive suburbs...suburbs that have absolutely no companies that employ engineers anywhere remotely nearby.
Bad community planning and a tendency for IT companies to cluster in relatively small, extremely expensive suburbs have combined to create a situation where people really do have to either deal with the commute or be unemployed or work at some local service job. Given how difficult it is to get a job as an engineer these days, "get a new job and move closer to it" isn't nearly as easy as it sounds. And I know for a fact that the people who went to engineering school, say, 10 years ago didn't anticipate the sudden downturn in job availability or the explosion in housing costs close to the jobs. So people suck it up and commute because they have families to support and they can't afford anything closer to work.
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