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Well I commute by car for 30 - 60 minutes (one way) per day. It is about 30km distance. I know the costs, as I pay them into an account for repairs, gasoline an
by sdoering 11y ago
Well I commute by car for 30 - 60 minutes (one way) per day. It is about 30km distance. I know the costs, as I pay them into an account for repairs, gasoline and so on.
On the other hand the alternative would be 90 - 100 minutes (one way) of commute by train with (included) 20 minutes of walk. I would have to switch trains twice. Cost would be about half to a third of above cost.
My time and my sanity (sitting in a car, listening to podcasts and not encountering the mass of idiots in public transport) is easily worth that much to me.
So for me the math works - that my tl;dr.
- hudibras 11y ago> On the other hand the alternative would be 90 - 100 minutes (one way) of commute by train Well, another alternative is to move somewhere closer to your current workplace and a fourth alternative is to get a job that's closer to your current home.
- megablast 11y agoI have turned down jobs before because they were no in cycling distance. Do others just take anything anywhere?
- lorenzhs 11y agoNot everyone has as much choice as a typical HN reader. Personally I'm completely on your side, I currently have a 15min bike ride to work. I only take the bus when bringing cake to work, everything else goes in the saddlebags :)
- ghaff 11y agoThe slice of the population that can just take their pick of an arbitrarily large pool of choice jobs within cycling distance is really tiny. Others will choose to move around which works somewhat if one rents and has less stuff than I always did--and don't have SOs, kids, etc.
- matwood 11y agoDo you have a family and kids? Do you enjoy living in the city? I cannot bike to work, but I'm sitting on the back porch looking out over the marsh on this amazing Sunday morning. In the city, if I even had a porch I would be staring at someones back yard or the building next to me.