A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting

The United States, with its enormous highways, sprawling suburbs and neglected public transport systems, is one of the most car-dependent countries in the world. But this arrangement of obligatory driving is making many Americans actively unhappy, new research has found

  • Verdant BananaEnglish
    21•7 days ago

    do logistics and it takes me sixteen hours to get to work and sixteen hours back to home with lots of driving while at work

    only way out is for the United States to become an actual United States that have the same living wages and worker rights in all states, caps on housing and food costs in all states, require same environmental protections across all states, up education standards across all the states to the same levels, upping the funding amount on public transportation inside and out of states

    car dependency is centered around where you live as travel is intentionally hobbled by high costs and other barriers because people that are stuck where they are at and dependent are unable to travel to see or share to other people and ways of life thus keeping the old ways going and the populace contained