Xander ,'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
You won't find anyone who owns a home for $200,000 and up who needs to ride a bus or train into work.
Speaking as someone who lives in Manhattan and takes public transportation exclusively let me say that I don't think I KNOW anyone who's home costs a paltry $200,000.
Not only that, just this morning I saw black people on the train. And no one died.
Anti-urbanism, bah
Hi, have you met Texas? Only poor people and us dirty hippies like the city (unless you Disney-fy it and charge an arm and a leg for rent, but even then it's kinda hipster or yuppieish and they're not to be trusted either).
msbelle, you'll likely need a car, though depending on where you are maybe not all the time. I haven't seen the inside of my car since last Tuesday. Friday I found out it was dead, so I just kept walking up to the bus stop at the corner.
Book Titles, If They Were Written Today
Then: The Wealth of Nations
Now: Invisible Hands: The Mysterious Market Forces That Control Our Lives and How to Profit from Them
Then: Walden
Now: Camping with Myself: Two Years in American Tuscany
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Then: The Prince
Now: The Prince (Foreword by Oprah Winfrey)
Hee!
I just saw a job opening that sounds fantastic, but also like it would require a car. Not to get to the office, but to do the job. Hmmmm. I mean, of course I'll still apply, but hmmmm.
As part of their Real Pirates exhibition, the Field Museum is pulling out the stops for International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19) with pirate re-enactors, sword fights, treasure hunts, and more. Can I hear an ahrrrrr?
I'm stealing that P-C.
Toothpaste for Dinner is quite amusing.
I have been told by people that I know that they would rather walk 10 miles home than ever take a bus. And that person lives on a bus route and complains about parking constantly.
Small cities have a public transportation catch 22-- people who have choice won't ride the bus unless is comes more often and goes more places, but they can't afford to expand without more people riding the bus.