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Honestly, saving 1-4 hours of commute every single day equates to an absurd amount of extra time. People underestimate how long commuting takes away from your
by Draiken 8y ago
Honestly, saving 1-4 hours of commute every single day equates to an absurd amount of extra time.
People underestimate how long commuting takes away from your day. Just the time you take getting ready, waking up early to get breakfast first or even getting out to eat lunch. Normally people don't add those times to the commute total and count only the actual car/bus/metro time.
No matter small those are, they add up and you don't ever get that back. Even if you only take 1 hour a day commuting (rare in my experience) you will get at least 5 hours extra in a week that you can use to... live.
Be it learning time, family time or even just relaxing time, it's 5 hours that seemingly come from out of thin air.
- closeparen 8y agoYour experience is atypical. The median commute time in the United States is 25.4 minutes each way. The HN zeitgeist's insistence on living in major cities and taking public transit has a drastic cost in terms of commute time as well as money, one that most Americans do not pay.
- Draiken 8y agoThe US is only one country in the world. I imagine this median goes up if we include more countries. Regardless, my point stands. with that median we'd have 50 minutes every day which would total to ~4h/week literally wasted moving around.