Long Term Unemployed Discuss Lack of Mobility -- PBS
03-02-14, 04:48 PM
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Whenever I hear stories of the recently unemployed, it seems there is a certain disbelief to them. Like they expect to be able to maintain the same kind of lifestyle they were living beforehand, without taking immediate drastic action to downsize their lifestyle to fit their new reality.
There's talk of having enough cash stashed for 3 months of unemployment, like during that three months, certainly by the end of it, they'll be employed again at a job making what they were, and can maintain their accustomed lifestyle with just a blip in their employment history and a relieved "*whew*" at the end of it.
How often does that happen?
Versus getting to the end of whatever emergency savings, general savings, and even retirement savings and finding out that there is no job at the end of the rainbow making what one was before sudden unemployment. Or having to be "underemployed," with a slower, but still sure, depletion of savings until a lifestyle is not manageable.
If that job of similar salary level does not materialize, there's bankruptcy and foreclosure to face.
Better to chuck it all and downsize? Or hope for the best and drain your assets?
There's talk of having enough cash stashed for 3 months of unemployment, like during that three months, certainly by the end of it, they'll be employed again at a job making what they were, and can maintain their accustomed lifestyle with just a blip in their employment history and a relieved "*whew*" at the end of it.
How often does that happen?
Versus getting to the end of whatever emergency savings, general savings, and even retirement savings and finding out that there is no job at the end of the rainbow making what one was before sudden unemployment. Or having to be "underemployed," with a slower, but still sure, depletion of savings until a lifestyle is not manageable.
If that job of similar salary level does not materialize, there's bankruptcy and foreclosure to face.
Better to chuck it all and downsize? Or hope for the best and drain your assets?
https://priceonomics.com/what-its-like-to-fail/
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03-02-14, 05:31 PM
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It's not just the buses that require big roads. Big cargo trucks require that too. My point is simply that the trade-offs involved in road design, and the requirements that the road must meet, don't just include cars and buses. If a road is big enough for a large truck, it's big enough for any bus too.
So if you accept that roads must accommodate large trucks, then the cost of having the road also accommodate buses is pretty minimal.
So if you accept that roads must accommodate large trucks, then the cost of having the road also accommodate buses is pretty minimal.
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03-02-14, 05:34 PM
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You're probably right. But you should not be. People are such f&c*ing wimps! If the bus system is well run (my Atlanta/Marta seems OK) then I can hardly see what's so "unpleasant" about it. And in your car you're unlikely to strike up an interesting conversation with a stranger, which makes the trip so much faster seeming and "pleasant".
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03-02-14, 05:36 PM
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And yet the EU has resolved that all European cities will be carfree by 2050. A number of cities, like Hamburg and Nancy, are on track to be carfree much sooner--as you yourself posted a few days ago. So thinking about what a "bus road" will look like is a realistic concern to many city planners and traffic engineers.
Routes from remote areas to cities lose some of those economies of scale simply because not so many people will be on the bus. Routes from remote areas to other remote areas are unlikely to be financially viable at all.
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