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How to live on $432 a month in America

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526 points cactusplant7374 | 2 comments | 23 May 25 16:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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999900000999 ◴[23 May 25 20:15 UTC] No.44076233[source]▶
>Though I and my wife do not presently live in Massena, we live nearby, and we’re doing exactly this — we do not have an automobile, nor do we want one. We use the rural county transit bus, which we have found to be extremely cheap and quite reliable; and it has certainly saved us thousands and thousands of dollars by liberating us from the onerous expense of keeping a car.

This part has me screaming shenanigans. Unless you basically don't leave the house, you need a car outside of like 8 American cities. More believable would be a pair of used bikes.

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bombcar ◴[23 May 25 21:45 UTC] No.44076913[source]▶
That’s obviously not true, if you change what you “have” to go to.

There are thousands of American towns that are about 10k population - large enough to have a Walmart and other stores, small enough to walk across in an hour or so.

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999900000999 ◴[23 May 25 22:23 UTC] No.44077156[source]▶
Once it gets cold you won't be walking much anywhere. I guess grocery delivery from Walmart can mitigate this, but that fundamentally changes the situation.
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cozzyd ◴[23 May 25 22:34 UTC] No.44077206[source]▶
Why not? You can walk plenty in the cold with the right equipment. I walked 2+ km a day at the south pole ...
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999900000999 ◴[23 May 25 23:00 UTC] No.44077365[source]▶
It's really dangerous if you don't know what your doing. I'm about .5 km from the closest supermarket.

If it's snowing or just cold out I'm still ordering food.

If I'm mildly sick, ordering food.

I'm going to guess that you're a really good shape that a 2 km walk isn't a big deal, but I don't think most Americans can do that.

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1. xboxnolifes ◴[24 May 25 08:51 UTC] No.44079764{5}[source]▶
> I'm going to guess that you're a really good shape that a 2 km walk isn't a big deal, but I don't think most Americans can do that.

Most Americans would be able to do it if it became a regular occurrence for them. 2km of walking is not much even if you sit around 24 hours a day.

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2. npodbielski ◴[24 May 25 11:23 UTC] No.44080345[source]▶
I am sitting in front of PC probably around 10hours a day and drink and sit rest of my day (excluding sleep) and still it is not a big deal for me to have a 7km walk to the city or back is not a big deal.

I think in US it just cultural. "You are walking?! With your feet?! How?!". Unless you more likely to get shot walking via some neighbourhood I can't understand that.