Their choice came down to: "they were willing to live in congested dwellings without safety or security just so they could walk to work" (Gopalan 1998)11. Other studies have found similarly very limited mobility by the urban poor. Some of the urban poor have to make a different trade-off by accepting long travel distances from a peripheral location in order to obtain affordable but secure housing. The relative immobility of the urban poor, especially poor women is a central fact in their lives and severely limits their employment options. It has already been mentioned above that the poor must trade-off the time and cost required to access livelihood opportunities against security and quality of housing.