WOHMs - could you afford to take 3 mo...

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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
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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:29pm
No one hates a long commute more than me.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-06-2004
Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:33pm

What do all these ethanol plants being built mean to her business?

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Registered: 08-29-2002
Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:33pm
Let me re-phrase: I grew up in a comfortably middle class. I grew up with a lot of choices: choice in university, choice in career, the choice to take financial risks, the choice to turn down jobs that didn't suit our needs. Many people don't start out with those choices, and the lack of choice follows them throughout their lives. They might get lucky and find something close to where they live, but many people really don't have the luxury of saying "I will live in x community and pick a profession that ensures I can live and work in the same community". Well, except if one is willing to take jobs at places like MacDonalds, Walmart etc., since those are the jobs that can be found in any community.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:39pm

Ethanol is going to be a huge part of her business.

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Registered: 12-07-2003
Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:41pm

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


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:47pm

Yes and Angie is one of them.

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Registered: 12-07-2003
Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:53pm
There are definitely people who don't have choices. But I think that there are many middle class people who have had the opportunity to make choices about college, career, and housing, and still choose to commute.

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Registered: 12-06-2004
Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:55pm
It is going to be huge.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2002
Fri, 11-09-2007 - 12:58pm

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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Registered: 12-07-2003
Fri, 11-09-2007 - 1:00pm
73% of commuters live and work in the same county.

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