Well, of course, you're right, I did pick out a small part, because I figured comparing average with average was logical. It would be easy for me to counter with stats for an average low-income UK family, which would also be different. Lies and damn lies eh?
I still don't understand how you do 24000 odd miles a year. That's the kind of mileage I used to do when I was carrying a tool case, but I was pretty much driving all day every day. You must have a hell of a commute??!??!
Again I'll say, I think the 4.2% figure is below average and I'd like to see where they get their stats from. The people that make more around here travel farther to get it. I think that's true for a lot of areas in the US. Live where you wanna live, work where you have to work.
And 24K miles is actually low for me. Keep in mind that I live 60 miles from my parents, 350 miles from my in-laws, and my commute to work one way is 37 miles. And for the majority of the summer, I was driving an extra 80 miles (it was ~40 miles to the field in the opposite direction of home) twice a week to play softball.
If that's not bad enough, I put 110,000 miles on my old car in 3.5 years, and my car barely moved while I was at college for 6 months out of the year. That's what having a girlfriend 300 miles away and commuting 45 miles one way to an internship will do. And that's before vacations, simply going out, etc.
To say I've driven a few miles in my short time on this earth, is putting it lightly.