If its wrong to live a long way from where you work so you need to drive there (climate change etc)?

Question

but you have had no success finding a job nearer home or your local area has high unemployment

Is it then ok to live in benefits? Or does that still make you a sdirty scrounging scumbag
? I guess you can't win really!

(This is a rhetorical question by the way - I am NOT in this situation - so leave the personal BS out of it please, I just wanna see what answers it gets)

Stralight - I totally agree that people on benefits are not scumbags -I was trying to attract comment from the type of moron who posts on here that anyone who claims benefit is a lazy good for nothing blah blah. Just wanted to see what they had to say about it.

acegunner - yeah there are ALWAYS jobs on offer, but you won't automatically get a job because you apply for it. If there are two or three other applicants and only one job what then? Someone's gonna go home empty handed. The whole reason people are unemployed (when they don't want to be) is not because there are "no" jobs but because there NOT ENOUGH jobs to go round. A situation not being made better by high immigration but thats another question.

Like I said, this is not a situation I'm personally in, although I was once in this situation a few years ago and it sucked!

Answer 1

I wouldn't say it's "wrong" to live a long way from where you work. Say, you buy a house and you have a job close-by...say you lose your job and you gotta work somewhere...you can't always find work close by. It's not always feasible to sell your house and move closer to your job. I don't understand the second question.

Answer 2

There are many reasons for living far from the residence.

1. Family. Educational facilities for the family, safety and a bigger house to live in may cause some people to buy a place outside the city but still work in the city.

2. Emotional ties. The person may have a strong bond with the place far from work.

3. Job stability. The available job is satisfactory.

4. More affordable cost of living. It may be cheaper to live outside the city.

Public transit, bicycles, car pools can minimize the effect on the environment.


An honest work, no matter what it is, is important to society.

For example: imagine the filth we will be in if there are no people who collect our garbage.



It seems that I misunderstood your second question. Those who live in (government ?) benefits may have a valid reason to do so. For instance, the elderly generation should be looked after because they were the ones that shaped the country.

But the program should not be abused. Only the deserving should receive material help. The rest should get assistance through a job network, or counseling.

Answer 3

Obviosly their are limits to how far you can go to get a job. however every local paper I have ever had with a jobs section has always had jobs on offer, they may not be great jobs but surely anything is better than just picking up your money for free while others are paying for you to live eat etc.

Once you have a job and are actively working you become more employable, as you prove you can be reliable thus making it easier to improve your job situation.

I drive a fifty mile round trip to work everyday, but it's worth it for my family and my self respect.

As for climate change anyone who thinks our country is going to make a difference on it's own is pissing in the wind. Without the US,China,India etc we cannot acheive anything, except to heap more tax on ourselves.

Answer 4

I find it hard to believe that the type of people who live so far away from their places of work that they couldn't make the journey by bicycle/public transport are the same type of people who would need benefits if they gave up their jobs.

You're right though, you can't really win! Do you cheat your kids by destroying the natural enivronment for them or by not being able to provide such a positive family environment for them?

I'm not trying to say that all people who live off benefits provide crap environments for their kids, but in the circumstances you describe it would not be a particularly positive thing, unless you gave up work to become self-sufficient and devoted your time to growing your own food and harnessing renewable energy sources. But, I suppose, if you did that you wouldn't need benefits.

Answer 5

The scum bags are the people who drive 4 litre "Chelsea tractors" up and down the motorways every day. The government should scrap car tax and put it on petrol and sack the pen pushers at the DVLA - and the pen pushers who do the TV licence - they could even scrap income tax if they taxed aviation fuel!

Answer 6

we all have choices and compromises to make in this life. everything has repercussions.

But I've been in that very situation, so I'd be the last to tell you what you should or shouldn't do.

Economically and environmentally, moving closer to work makes sense; but if your roots in your current resident community is strong, that is also a value to consider.

I don't see it as a definitive right/wrong scenario. All I would advise is weigh all your choices and do the best you can.

Answer 7

Absolutely not, driving a car does not contribute to the so called climate change. It is a FACT that if all the cars in the world were to run their engine's at the same time at maximum Rev's for 1 hour the effect on the climate would be 0.01%

Answer 8

People on benefits are not scumbags, But if possible they should try to get work. If your working place is very far away, think about to move closer

Answer 9

Your premise is flawed, but as usual for those only looking for attention you do not notice.
A rhetorical question is one that is not expected to be answered.
Winning, as you put it, may require effort. If your only solution is go on welfare, you aren't searching for a solution. Have you heard of car pools, buses, bicycles, buying a more fuel efficient vehicle, etc.

Answer 10

Like the chicken and egg thing. Which came first the job or the house? You find work where you can and then you buy or rent a house you can afford as close as you can (if that's what you want).