Going out requires a car. Money to park a car, money for the event itself, money for drinks, money for games, money for food. THEN you can have fun. If you’re broke too bad.
America used to be wealthy, and developed a culture that expected that. Then more and more of the wealth was funneled into fewer and fewer hands. If America had maintained and grew its distributive structures, the impacts would still be a problem but the basic elements of survival wouldn’t feel so difficult to obtain.
There isn’t anywhere to walk (safely) in my city. We don’t even have a park. Never mind a severe lack of sidewalks. This city was founded in the 60s and the car-brain really shows in its planning :/
My mil lives in a town that you need a car to get everywhere. They’ve got beautiful woods tho. The hiking is gorgeous. She’s just too decrepit to take advantage of it
Yeah. I posted a little while ago about trying to get my town to plant more trees because my god there are entire streets that might as well be a desert with how little shade they have. It’s unbearable to walk anywhere if it gets to be anywhere near 80+.
I’m slowly making tiny bits of progress since then, but nothing concrete. I emailed multiple gov reps/officials and got no response. However, my mom just happened to run into the chief of staff or whatever for the town’s supervisor at a concert at a park, who is apparently sympathetic and said we could talk with him sometime. He said they had a tree program and were planting what they thought were trees that wouldn’t disrupt the sidewalks but when that didn’t work out they just gave up.
I’m gonna try emailing him with some more info on options to avoid root damage and see if this can get anywhere.
This is something my friend group does. We’re lucky to have some good parks and walking trails nearby and we just put in some good shoes and walk around. It’s good to catch up with them and we tend to run into the occasional deer or bunny or dogs on walks
Going out requires a car. Money to park a car, money for the event itself, money for drinks, money for games, money for food. THEN you can have fun. If you’re broke too bad.
The cost of the goods and services has increased faster than salaries, as elsewhere in the economy.
Yeah, there’s a place I wanted to go last night, but not only is it a two hour round trip, I have to pay for gas and mileage. So I stayed home.
We’ve really fucked ourselves as a society, building infrastructure that requires everyone to be wealthy.
America used to be wealthy, and developed a culture that expected that. Then more and more of the wealth was funneled into fewer and fewer hands. If America had maintained and grew its distributive structures, the impacts would still be a problem but the basic elements of survival wouldn’t feel so difficult to obtain.
You bet. We are like the moose covered in ticks. Ever sector of the economy has been parasitized by oligopoly.
walks are free though.
There isn’t anywhere to walk (safely) in my city. We don’t even have a park. Never mind a severe lack of sidewalks. This city was founded in the 60s and the car-brain really shows in its planning :/
Sorry to hear :(
My mil lives in a town that you need a car to get everywhere. They’ve got beautiful woods tho. The hiking is gorgeous. She’s just too decrepit to take advantage of it
In 100F weather? No thanks.
Yeah. I posted a little while ago about trying to get my town to plant more trees because my god there are entire streets that might as well be a desert with how little shade they have. It’s unbearable to walk anywhere if it gets to be anywhere near 80+.
I’m slowly making tiny bits of progress since then, but nothing concrete. I emailed multiple gov reps/officials and got no response. However, my mom just happened to run into the chief of staff or whatever for the town’s supervisor at a concert at a park, who is apparently sympathetic and said we could talk with him sometime. He said they had a tree program and were planting what they thought were trees that wouldn’t disrupt the sidewalks but when that didn’t work out they just gave up.
I’m gonna try emailing him with some more info on options to avoid root damage and see if this can get anywhere.
Assuming you live somewhere with sidewalks.
even without sidewalks walking is free
Sure, but there are places where it’s just not safe to walk.
This is something my friend group does. We’re lucky to have some good parks and walking trails nearby and we just put in some good shoes and walk around. It’s good to catch up with them and we tend to run into the occasional deer or bunny or dogs on walks
Good for you and your friend group! This is the way.
And then you actually have people being upvoted on here saying that they should be expensive because “they are a luxury”.