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Old 05-23-14 | 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by sebnukem
All of the above (not quite sure about the heath?). A more interesting poll would be why THE HELL are you using a car when you can bike?
Here you go. That would be a poll for me.

I can't use my bicycle. I live too far in too hilly of an area from work (20 miles average 9 mph.) I don't have 4+ hours per day to be commuting to work.

It is 105-115° with extreme humidity at work, far worse than Florida of which I visited in 2010 when they had record breaking heat and humidity, and am exhausted by the end of 8-10 hours of working in that. All I want is ice cold air blowing directly on me for my drive home before I get to my non-air conditioned house. (The Florida trip, it was like being at work but having fun riding rides at Disneyworld for me as I'm use to that kind of heat from work, but I thought my wife and kids were going to die from it that week, LOL)

If I moved closer to work so I could bike to work, my house payment would more than double, my taxes would more than triple, and I would have a quarter of the property I have if I was lucky. My wife wouldn't bike to work, she had trouble today taking her first bike ride in 30 years with me, so I would still have the expense of a car on top of a lot of expense in a house.
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