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Which is a sinister part of the whole "buy a nice house far away & commute". The further from work, the less time you even get to spend at that nice house...

• niftich 9y ago
  The benefits of that nice house (and the neighborhood, schools, etc.) are ostensibly more so for the benefit of the family than the long-commuting employee themselves -- whether misguided or accurate. When one is single and (relatively) unattached, the calculus is different, as Silicon Valley neatly shows.
• sjg007 9y ago
  A faster train would help but everyone is upset about building the boondoggle.
  • eru 9y ago
    Or more housing in LA? The sky's the limit for that. (OK, in practice NIMBYs are the limit.)
    • sjg007 9y ago
      That would help too and robust telecommute options as well, although for some government office workers that may be more difficult.