which really gets back to housing once again. with the housing bubble, people ended up moving further and further out into the desert, and commutes of 1-2 hours each way for both parents became common place.
while the parents sit in traffic, the kids sit in front of the TV.
the parents get home with pizza or fast food in hand, or pop in sodium and fat rich microwave dish from Costco. after they eat, it is pretty much bedtime because the whole family got to get up at 5 am to do the commute all over again.
where is the exercise? you don’t.
that’s the true cost of the bubble. it eliminates all hope of home ownership for families in established areas. families react by moving to the boonies. result? you end up with millions of morbidly obese families knocking down the doors of Big Pharma looking for the next diet pill.
which really gets back to housing once again. with the housing bubble, people ended up moving further and further out into the desert, and commutes of 1-2 hours each way for both parents became common place.
while the parents sit in traffic, the kids sit in front of the TV.
the parents get home with pizza or fast food in hand, or pop in sodium and fat rich microwave dish from Costco. after they eat, it is pretty much bedtime because the whole family got to get up at 5 am to do the commute all over again.
where is the exercise? you don’t.
that’s the true cost of the bubble. it eliminates all hope of home ownership for families in established areas. families react by moving to the boonies. result? you end up with millions of morbidly obese families knocking down the doors of Big Pharma looking for the next diet pill.
