Drive to get anywhere

can you imagine if you lived in a place where you had to drive in order to just leave your house? seems so depressing to be so attached to a car

from a washpost story on inflation:

"We've had to cut back on a lot of stuff," said Stephanie Green, 30, of Mount Airy, N.C., after returning from a trip to a Bottom Dollar grocery store, where shoppers bag their own groceries to help keep food prices down.

"I used to spend about $120 a week to buy food. To be honest, now I spend anywhere from $200 to $220 a week," said Green, who has three children. And with the price of gasoline at $3.67 at her local service station, she said: "We're basically not going anywhere. We're going to get the kids, and besides that we don't go out of the house all week."