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PSA: The average commute for Americans is about 27 minutes each way [1]. If your commute is 2 hours, you're an outlier. [1] https://www.npr.org/2018/09/20/650

• cableshaft 5y ago
  Lots of people both live and work in small towns or cities. As someone who lived in a city of about 100k population, my commute to anywhere in the city was no more than twenty minutes on a bad day, usually fifteen. Lots of people both live and work from within big cities reasonably close to their job. For those people, their commute is likely less than 30 minutes. For people who are outside of big cities and have to commute in, or live in one city and commute to another, they will have longer than 30 minute commutes, almost certainly. That applies to most people who live in the suburbs. Also note this quote from your article: "Speeds over the five or six years that Uber and others have been in existence have dropped from a very slow 6.5 mph to 4.7 mph," Schwartz says about New York City. 4.7 miles per hour. So that suggests that if your home is as close as 5 miles away from the city, it could take you an hour just to drive into the city during rush hour.