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The situation seems a bit more nuanced than that: https://daliaresearch.com/the-countries-with-the-longest-and-shortest-commutes/ https://daliaresearch.com/the
by gwright 8y ago
The situation seems a bit more nuanced than that:
https://daliaresearch.com/the-countries-with-the-longest-and-shortest-commutes/ https://daliaresearch.com/the-countries-with-the-longest-and...
- TulliusCicero 8y ago...is this data reliable? It seems to contradict other studies I've seen. And I don't just mean that it contradicts the parts that support my point. I was under the impression that Japan had generally longer commutes than the US, for example. But in any case, it doesn't seem to contradict anything that I said.
- gwright 8y agoI make no claims on the reliability of the data. I just tend to get a bit suspicious when problems are described as being particular to the US or worse in the US than in other places. I find that in many cases that is just not true. So I tend to poke around and see what I can see.
- TulliusCicero 8y agoI wasn't saying that the length of the commute itself was unusual, but rather that it was a lengthy car commute that was unable to be replaced by public transit. In the case of many other countries, like Japan or Germany, most people's commutes can be accomplished reasonably efficiently with public transportation (often public transportation is even faster due to traffic).