McDonald's suggested employee budget.

[Shane for Wax]

Yeah. I have lived near some kind of water all my life except when I was in North Dakota.

The one place I lived where I could walk to the beach in about five minutes was Hawaii for obvious reasons. Oahu isn't that big at all. You can circle the island in a couple hours.

[worlder]

Hmm, ok suppose one doesn't get broadband internet or perhaps even goes no Internet at all.

Would public library internet suffice if one is willing to put up with no computer gaming or Netflix for the foreseeable future?

[Askold]

Gaming and Netflix aren't as important as email and news.

Job applications and merely staying in contact with other people often requires an internet connection these days.

[Witchyjoshy]

One of the things about employers who use your e-mail is that they probably won't make allowances for only being able to read your e-mail at certain times.

Like, said, they send you an e-mail at 2:00 AM in the morning informing you of something that has to be done before you go to work.  You go to work at 8:00 AM.  You can't check your e-mail before leaving because you don't have the time to go to the library, assuming it's even open that early.  They blame you for it.

[DiscoBerry]

Gaming and Netflix aren't as important as email and news.

Job applications and merely staying in contact with other people often requires an internet connection these days.

Internet access is a must have for job applications.  No, buts about it.  I went to a job fair recently and all the companies did was handout cards with online application information.   

[chitoryu12]

Also, almost all companies communicate nearly exclusively through emails and occasionally cell phones nowadays. I'm currently a Universal Studios Orlando seasonal employee: all of the application process was done online (though they provided computers), but I had to register online for the audition in the first place. Information about literally everything, including when the timekeeping schedules are posted for the week, is sent through email. Last year I got a phone call with my HHN role, but this year they switched to emails to avoid trying to play phone tag with people. All news regarding the company is simply posted online with the assumption that everyone will see it in a timely manner.

[worlder]

So personal internet access is needed as public internet access tends to run on its own schedule.

[chitoryu12]

So personal internet access is needed as public internet access tends to run on its own schedule.

Pretty much. Public computers aren't always available and may be a good distance away from where you live and work. A lot of employers assume that you simply have a computer and internet at home and will expect you to notice and respond to emails or online updates in a timely fashion, rather than waiting a few days for you to get to the library or internet cafe (unless you're in Florida, where internet cafes are illegal because Rick Scott is a dingleberry).

[DiscoBerry]

So personal internet access is needed as public internet access tends to run on its own schedule.

(unless you're in Florida, where internet cafes are illegal because Rick Scott is a dingleberry).

WTF is the reasoning behind this?

[MadCatTLX]

So personal internet access is needed as public internet access tends to run on its own schedule.

(unless you're in Florida, where internet cafes are illegal because Rick Scott is a dingleberry).

WTF is the reasoning behind this?

They're casinos apparently, and someone on his staff got in trouble with gambling, so he banned the entire internet.

[Sigmaleph]

Has that actually been put to effect, or is it just the letter of the law?

[chitoryu12]

Has that actually been put to effect, or is it just the letter of the law?

Okay, what happened is that his Lieutenant Governor was caught up in a scandal where the non-profit firm that she used to work for (which operated a chain of internet cafes) was found to be illegally operating online gambling sites. She resigned, and Rick Scott's government decided that the proper response was to ban all internet cafes and slot machines in the state of Florida.

That's already pretty stupid, but the problem is that the bill was written to simply ban "any device that can connect to the internet". Which means that for the past several years, Florida has technically banned the internet. This didn't come up until very recently when a lawsuit was filed against the state.

[ScrappyB]

^This, this, and this again.  I can't believe how many times I've been asked by people from other countries (mostly Britain) why we don't just take mass transit everywhere.
Our country isn't approximately 70 miles at its widest, y'all.

I've noticed that as well. When I lived near Seattle, one of my friends had some relatives visit from the UK for a week. About the fourth day into their stay, they asked if they could borrow one of the family's cars to take a road trip to visit some people they knew. People who lived in Detroit. They honestly expected to drive from Seattle to Detroit, visit with friends and drive back in three days.

[chitoryu12]

^This, this, and this again.  I can't believe how many times I've been asked by people from other countries (mostly Britain) why we don't just take mass transit everywhere.
Our country isn't approximately 70 miles at its widest, y'all.

I've noticed that as well. When I lived near Seattle, one of my friends had some relatives visit from the UK for a week. About the fourth day into their stay, they asked if they could borrow one of the family's cars to take a road trip to visit some people they knew. People who lived in Detroit. They honestly expected to drive from Seattle to Detroit, visit with friends and drive back in three days.

You could do it if you drove fast and only stopped when you had to, and only spent a little while visiting with your friends. I've made it 1000 miles in less than 24 hours.

[dpareja]

^This, this, and this again.  I can't believe how many times I've been asked by people from other countries (mostly Britain) why we don't just take mass transit everywhere.
Our country isn't approximately 70 miles at its widest, y'all.

I've noticed that as well. When I lived near Seattle, one of my friends had some relatives visit from the UK for a week. About the fourth day into their stay, they asked if they could borrow one of the family's cars to take a road trip to visit some people they knew. People who lived in Detroit. They honestly expected to drive from Seattle to Detroit, visit with friends and drive back in three days.

You could do it if you drove fast and only stopped when you had to, and only spent a little while visiting with your friends. I've made it 1000 miles in less than 24 hours.

I recall that when my sister and I were rather young (she's younger than me and I don't think either of us was over 10), my family made it from Greater Vancouver, through the Peace Arch crossing and to somewhere just south of the OR-CA border (over 1000 km) in maybe 15 hours. Can't recall if we stopped anywhere on the way.