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No snark intended, but 3 hours per day is a tremendous expenditure of your time... is that really preferable to working close to where you live or living close
by nullc 7y ago
No snark intended, but 3 hours per day is a tremendous expenditure of your time... is that really preferable to working close to where you live or living close to where you work?
Other than a brief period where I was commuting between Florida and DC I've never lived more than a 15 minute drive from my office (or worked from home)... I can't imagine sinking 3 hours a day into a commute. There are plenty of decisions in my life that I'd make differently in a redo, but the commute distance decisions are not among them.
- kevingadd 7y agoIt's prohibitively expensive - if possible at all - to live close to the main campus of a company like Google or Facebook. If you're lucky your commute is maybe 30 minutes, if you're unlucky it's much longer. Self-inflicted harm, perhaps, but if you're already working there cutting down your commute basically means you need to quit your job because most teams won't let you go full/heavy WFH.
- nullc 7y agoUp until a couple years ago I used to live within a very short commute from the google campus. My rent was ~$2000/month for a two bedroom apartment in Mountain View. I can't imagine that SF is much cheaper.