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> For those of us who have to commute, it's not exactly the norm to be saving money while commuting This is true. I choose to live within walking distance of m
by _jal 5y ago
> For those of us who have to commute, it's not exactly the norm to be saving money while commuting
This is true. I choose to live within walking distance of my office, and it has vastly improved my life - prior to this job, I commuted 2.5 hours a day, and that was awful.
These choices of course have complex tradeoffs, but you don't have to commute, it is a choice.
- johnmaguire 5y agoAre you not paying more to live near the office?
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- CobsterLock 5y agoI feel like this borders on the kind of insensitive comment that people get when they live paycheck to paycheck. Why don't you just save your money for a month? Why don't you just buy nicer shoes so you don't have to replace them every other month? I feel like the trade off isn't that complex. Walking to work is a luxury of having a well paying job in the city.
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- ck425 5y agoYou're not wrong, but you are discussing this in community full of largely well paid professionals. The majority of is have the financial ability to live within walking/cycling distance of the office, even if we choose not to.
- heavyset_go 5y ago> These choices of course have complex tradeoffs, but you don't have to commute, it is a choice. I have to live near disabled family members so I can help take care of them. It's either work at Walmart, commute or work remotely. I've done the latter for years, but before the pandemic, most non-remote-first employers' attitudes towards remote working was either simply "no", or there was the expectation that you were to spend a year or more working in the office before asking your employer to make a special case for you to work remotely.