Mattew said:
Not all areas have mass transit tho. I'll admit driving is sometimes a chore & I don't always want to drive. There are times when I do enjoy getting to drive. I'm in a rural area, & I do a lot of back road driving / pasture driving, when I'm checking my cattle or checking on different things.
most areas don't have mass transportation.
although we, here, have fairly good access to road networks, public transport has been something of a ball-ache requiring at least two buses to get anywhere, as would be needed by the socio-economics and infrastructures policies of government (housing, schools, shops and places of work are only where they are because of government say-so) and meaning that any reasonable trip takes at least an hour.
even going to the next two villages down the road requires one to go in another direction to the main interchange to get another bus to the villages from the other direction, taking about an hour; you can walk to the first village in ten minutes (great, if you're not elderly or infirm).
the enforced commute [by government] is also copied by employers, who refuse to employ 'local' folk.
and i say 'local' suchwise because of the way in which it's used on a criminal level by government and employers to mean anything they want. but 'local', meaning 'this place', is very specific and the english words for it show so: here, spot, stow.
'local' refers to a specific place, complete with it's place-name; it's not some vague area or area of bureaucratic governance [which can be changed willy-nilly], it's a physical place and described so in it's place-name.
as you see, one of my pet-hates, but only because there's loads of work in our village, just none for local folk.
and then throw-in the shift-work that we're forced to do and public transport is non-existent.
