[old curmudgeon]

I suspect that I am the oldest poster here, so a little lesson on how things once were:

I am old enough to remember when the fellows who left the farm to work in town ended up living across the road from the plant in which they worked.

They could not afford a car. In fact, there were very few cars and the roads were mostly dirt and gravel.

They walked across the road to work in the plant..

When they needed groceries or clothes, the walked to the company store.

Remember that famous line in Ernie Ford’s song....”I owe my soul to the company store”?

That was the real world.

When Henry Ford made the T Model and gasoline became available at a price the working man could pay, the world changed.

Now he could commute to a nearby town and a better job.

If you want to go back to those days.......

[hanamizu]

I suspect that I am the oldest poster here

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I don’t know. I’m older than I’ve ever been before. But you are right. In the “good old days” you walked or rode a trolly to work. No real freedom of movement. And if the factory or mine was in the middle of nowhere, like Pullman’s, then you lived in company housing and bought at the company store.

[Elsie]

I suspect that I am the oldest poster here, so a little lesson on how things once were:

No way to know unless you tell us your age.

[Flaming Conservative]

Much of the world still travels by bicycle. Or walking. Wouldn’t be a bad idea, if you’re not FORCED to do it. Do people in the U.K. still have a high percentage of cycling?