"-L." > wrote in message
> All except the last pretty much are choices. Sure, we could have
> bought a home 30 miles from DH's work, the grocery, the library, the
> swimming pool - we chose not to. Many, many people have that same
> choice and do not make it. Then they bitch because they have to buy
> gas.

Many do not have that choice. I moved to my present house to be 3 miles
from work. I'd walk it in good weather. Then the company was sold and my
present job is 26 miles away and moving was not much of an option. And I've
not bitched about the price of gas.