No offense, but number 7 sounds ridiculous to me. What kind of awareness of local geography do people even cultivate on a 40 minute commute? You're going for s

No offense, but number 7 sounds ridiculous to me. What kind of awareness of local geography do people even cultivate on a 40 minute commute? You're going for speed and consistency, not novelty and aesthetics. You see only a tiny amount of environs on your commute (most of it non local), and I'm not sure people develop that kind of relationship with the neighborhood at mile 38/49 that they'd care if it's trashed, whatever that means and however they'd notice. I've had both long and short commutes, and I don't understand what you're talking about.