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I work about 3 minutes walking from home and it's amazing. Just move close to where you work!

by yread 7y ago

clarry 7y ago
I work to live, not live to work. Jobs change and move offices around, but my heart is with the places where my family and memories and good scenery is. I'm glad that remote work is an option today and I can choose to live where I want. One day, hopefully, it'll be out of town and I have my own quiet little garden, with apple trees.
mdszy 7y ago
Yeah, because that's a solution that will work for everyone. The majority of people do not have that option. Saying "Just move closer" is reductionist bullshit.
- yread 7y ago
  OK, I meant "Just move closer to where you work, if you at all can". Of course it won't work for everyone but what does. Find a nice work you like, move close to it and keep doing it for 10 years
  - mdszy 7y ago
    If you mean "if you at all can" you should probably specify instead of sounding ignorant to the fact that few people can actually just up and move closer to work on a whim.
    - yread 7y ago
      Tell that to all the postdocs how it's impossible to move every 2-3 years with a family
      - mdszy 7y ago
        Kindly tell me how postdocs is a superset of literally everyone.
adwn 7y ago
Are you suggesting that we should move whenever we have a new job? What about people with partners who are also working?
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- souprock 7y ago
  I would say so. It works. Partners working is not always a profitable endeavor. People often forget to include housing costs in the calculation. If you are forced to live in a large city, your costs go up.
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ttul 7y ago
If only it was possible to have a family with three kids anywhere near the office. Instead, decades of bad planning policy have jacked housing costs beyond all reason, forcing people like me to move very far from work.
- souprock 7y ago
  I have twelve kids just 0.9 miles from the office. Between home and office I pass houses on 0.25 acre lots that go for about $250,000. That is paying a premium to be by the ocean. Just a few miles away, where there are more jobs, similar houses go for about $150,000. Choose a small city in a low-cost state, and you can have this too.
kps 7y ago
I once worked about 3 minutes walk from home. That was five job-location changes ago.

I work about 3 minutes walking from home and it's amazing. Just move close to where you work!

by yread 7y ago

I work about 3 minutes walking from home and it's amazing. Just move close to where you work!

I work to live, not live to work. Jobs change and move offices around, but my heart is with the places where my family and memories and good scenery is. I'm glad that remote work is an option today and I can choose to live where I want. One day, hopefully, it'll be out of town and I have my own quiet little garden, with apple trees.

mdszy 7y ago

Yeah, because that's a solution that will work for everyone. The majority of people do not have that option. Saying "Just move closer" is reductionist bullshit.

yread 7y ago
OK, I meant "Just move closer to where you work, if you at all can". Of course it won't work for everyone but what does. Find a nice work you like, move close to it and keep doing it for 10 years
- mdszy 7y ago
  If you mean "if you at all can" you should probably specify instead of sounding ignorant to the fact that few people can actually just up and move closer to work on a whim.
  - yread 7y ago
    Tell that to all the postdocs how it's impossible to move every 2-3 years with a family
    - mdszy 7y ago
      Kindly tell me how postdocs is a superset of literally everyone.

adwn 7y ago

Are you suggesting that we should move whenever we have a new job? What about people with partners who are also working?

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souprock 7y ago
I would say so. It works. Partners working is not always a profitable endeavor. People often forget to include housing costs in the calculation. If you are forced to live in a large city, your costs go up.

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ttul 7y ago

If only it was possible to have a family with three kids anywhere near the office. Instead, decades of bad planning policy have jacked housing costs beyond all reason, forcing people like me to move very far from work.

souprock 7y ago
I have twelve kids just 0.9 miles from the office. Between home and office I pass houses on 0.25 acre lots that go for about $250,000. That is paying a premium to be by the ocean. Just a few miles away, where there are more jobs, similar houses go for about $150,000. Choose a small city in a low-cost state, and you can have this too.

kps 7y ago

I once worked about 3 minutes walk from home. That was five job-location changes ago.