If you can

@Heartlander Another bad condition can be faded white lane-markings after dark in wet weather, on street-lit roads. The markings can disappear with the strange optical combinations of street-lamp light, reflections off the wet road, and headlamp glare.

@ArishMell Yep, especially noticeable as city budgets get tightened. Complicated and creative intersections are near impossible to navigate without bright pavement markings.

@RedBaron Commuting by taxi might work by you but it'd have been very expensive for me, with a round-trip of over twenty miles five days a week! :)

@ArishMell I work at home, so I don’t commute. But I live in NYC and use Uber instead of owning a car. Much easier and cheaper.

@RedBaron I see! Thankyou!

I think many living in and around cities like London and Manchester are in the same situation; but of course the number of people able to work at or from home is probably a small proportion of the total work-force.

I think the nature of urban office work skews the perception of journalists, etc. when they report on it, with their glib "now we all work at home" cliches.

There were a very few times when theoretically I could have worked at home for an afternoon; but otherwise my work was not at all portable.

The company carefully differentiated between working at and working from, home. I know some who did work at home occasionally, but none who could work almost entirely from home.


The choice of owning a car is more complicated. We may not need one for our daily lives of commuting, shopping and other local activities, and I walk or use buses for many of those; but as I also do, have interests and social lives very difficult without a car.