ValuyMost Americans would rather live in a big house in a car-based community than a small house in a walking-based community.
I’d say most people move out of the city into a big house because the land value and house is much more affordable than close to the city. However the lower price is then offset by the extra travel time to and from work, costs for car, petrol and maintenance.
In the end you don’t really save any money, you just spend it on either car and time or land value.
Time is the most valuable commodity you will ever own.
Anyone that chooses a life with loads of transport are sort changing themselves big time.
Time is exactly why a lot of people in America choose to drive. Public transit practically doesn’t exist, or would take two hours to go about a 30 minute drive bleeding away all your time. I just checked, and there’s not even a bus that runs close to when I go in. It costs $4 and over two hours. I’d have to arrive more than six hours early to take the bus. And that’s with the bus stop, literally in the parking lot of the business.
America needs to decuple their public transportation spending for about a decade just for us to catch up with the developed world.