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2 hours each way sounds absolutely, life-alteringly, macro-level awful to me. It boggles my mind that someone would consider that "a little on the high end for
by gabbo 11y ago
2 hours each way sounds absolutely, life-alteringly, macro-level awful to me. It boggles my mind that someone would consider that "a little on the high end for a commute" - it might be a worthy tradeoff all things considered, and "totally do-able" in that one can do it...but personally (and I'd expect for many people), I wouldn't be happy if I was in a position where I had no choice but to be commuting for 4 hours.
Yeah you can fill that time up with podcasts or audiobooks or that sort of thing, or work for a Bay Area tech company with a work shuttle and maybe-kinda-sorta-work along the way, but you're still giving up 2-3 hours of free/unconstrained time (one might make the argument "but I would be doing the same things at home anyway" but in my mind there's a huge difference between those two situations).
- ljk 11y ago> but you're still giving up 2-3 hours of free/unconstrained time It'd actually be 4+ hours a day since it's 2-3 hours each way.. sounds crazy to me
- gabbo 11y agoOh I meant 2 hours each way (or 4 hours per day) is an extra 2-3 hours on top of what most would view as a typical North American commute (ballparking at 30-60 minutes each way, or 1-2 hours total per day). The absolute level of craziness of 4 hours commuting daily is pretty high, but the incremental craziness on top of your typical commute is really what I meant here. :)
- mesozoic 11y agoHead off to work. Work 3 hours on bus in. Eat lunch have standup. Head off to home and work 3 hours. If you want an 8 hour day. My bet is that's frowned upon.