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Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents

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Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents

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Post by amiga_500 » Sun, Oct 06, 2019, 6:36 PM UTC

wil421 wrote: post #56

amiga_500 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can imagine Americans living abroad will be shaking their fist at the parent poster. They have to pay taxes in the USA even when working abroad, never mind in the USA!

Sigh, this always comes up and I’ve never met a single person who actually had to pay taxes. My brother in law was out of the country for a decade and a few other friends lived in Europe and never paid. Has anyone on HN paid US taxes living abroad?

I worked with a guy in the UK who constantly lamented this.

Re: Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents

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Post by foxyv » Tue, Oct 08, 2019, 7:25 PM UTC

Average commute distance is 20 miles or so. At $0.25 per mile in depreciation, maintenance, gas, etc... you are spending about $10 per trip. With 260 work days in the year that costs the average American about $3,000 extra at a minimum. If you make less than $30,000 a year that is 10% of your budget gone before even rent is calculated.

In states with higher road taxes and fuel prices, and if you drive a less economical vehicle, that figure can get as high as $10,000 pretty quickly. I'm always surprised at poverty level families driving vehicles that cost them 25-40% of their yearly income. Often they have to use Uber and Lyft to help cover the car's cost and end up depreciating it even faster.

Imagine, being a slave to a freaking car.

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