“The last time I had to find x was junior year at college. The real world doesn’t care where x is.”
You want to take the family to grandmas house.
Grandma lives 250 miles away.
Your car gets 23mpg
Gas costs 3.83 per gallon
You have $75 spare cash in the bank
Do you have enough money to buy gas to get to grandmas and back?
First, Grandma lives within walking distance so don’t need gas. Second, that $75 would be going toward the electric bill to save the freezer from being cut off. Third, no one is going on a trip since they’re needed to help tend the garden to put food on the table and to do some major diy home repairs since there’s no spare money to pay a professional. That’s my real world.
Some people’s real world would be to dump the his/hers/theirs kids off at grandma’s because they can’t afford them even with foodstamps. Then bum $200 off grandma for gas, beer and smokes to get home.
Still no need to find x.