Current Events > I don't understand people that live more than 45+ minutes away from work.

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Hell, even half an hour one way is already pushing it for me. Sure cost of living is far lower than living closer to the city you work in but shit.... you'd pretty much just be working, doing errands for an hour or two, then sleep and repeat.

Some people can't find a decent paying job where they live.

30 minutes tops, I live like 15. Feels ordinary, anybody needing to engage in daily journey to make a paycheck is a sad desperate person
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yeah that sounds fucking awful
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Yeah that commute is bad but if the pay makes up for it I say go for it.
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see if we all had self-driving cars the commute would be much better and we would be way more relaxed coming in to work and coming home
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It makes sense in huge urban sprawls. Tri state area for example.
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i knew a coworker that had a one-way 2 hr commute. Property prices are horrible in GTA, forcing families to buy cheaper suburb houses at the expense of longer commutes
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KillerKhan420 posted...

Yeah that commute is bad but if the pay makes up for it I say go for it.

How much should one get paid for the commute more than an hour one way worth it?

A lot of teachers in HS lived in Portland but drove 40-45 minutes everyday to teach in Salem
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i switched jobs and went from a 75-90 minute commute to a 25 minute commute. much better quality of life
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It's obviously a balance. At one point I was commuting an hour into New York City each way. The tolls were ridiculous and parking fees were equally so, but it was a company truck and fees and fuel were paid for, so I didn't care. If I had to take my Camaro across the bridge and pay for parking myself every day... no fucking way I would have worked that job.
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If it's in traffic I couldn't deal with that. If it was just that far by distance and it's a clear drive it'd be fun enough to zone out to music or listen to podcasts and audiobooks while going on a nice drive.

My normal commute is 19 minutes but with my current schedule traffic in the morning makes it 30 minutes and I hate it. Changing my working time soon luckily.
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3 days a week i am waking up at 5 AM so I can keep my commute down to 30 minutes. If I didn't wake up until 6 it would an hour those days. and i am super not a morning person.

other 2 days a week, and where my home office is (the 3 days a week will end in March and go to 1 day a week) its only a 12-18 minute commute depending on traffic and lights.
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I had a 30 minute commute and now it's 10-15min. Even that small amount makes a crazy difference
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FFVII_REMAKE posted...

you'd pretty much just be working, doing errands for an hour or two, then sleep and repeat.

I get home at around 5 pretty much everyday. I have plenty of time for whatever I wanna do.
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A lot of people in high paying salaries take that drive all the time. They drive into the city, or downtown, work and go home to the suburbs or far suburbs. Sure, maybe if they were still in their 20s/30s and single making the same money, they would find a trendy expensive condo/apartment in the area of their work. But a lot of people want a large lawn, two stories and 4 bedrooms.

If the city isn't an "all incomes and family sizes live downtown" type of big city, then this happens a lot.
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When I lived in Tacoma I worked up in Kent. On the way there it was like 45 minutes but on the way back with traffic it would be 1-2 hours depending on how bad it was.

I don't mind doing 45 mins or so if traffic isn't too bad. even if there's a lot of cars as long as it's moving steadily its fine. I used to get stuck in 2 hours of traffic leaving boston every day though if I didn't get out of dorchester by 2
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Kamala_Harris posted...

When I lived in Tacoma I worked up in Kent. On the way there it was like 45 minutes but on the way back with traffic it would be 1-2 hours depending on how bad it was.

i had to drive past lakewood yesterday. ugggh hate that stretch of i-5. im off exit 152 and from like exit 138(? a few before hwy 18) to exit 162 (think its normally about 2 miles before seneca st exit that it gets bad in seattle but i avoid doing i-5 into seattle) its mostly smooth sailing.
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It's only a pain if you drive.

I had a job that had a two hour bus ride there and back. Those two hours could be spent doing whatever I wanted. Playing games, watching shows on my phone, reading books, trolling gamefaqs, etc.