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I live in New York and I think it's pretty livable. The massive subway and bus lines allow you to save thousands of dollars on rent by living a 40 minute commut
by eatonphil 5y ago
I live in New York and I think it's pretty livable. The massive subway and bus lines allow you to save thousands of dollars on rent by living a 40 minute commute from Manhattan away. This ends up with a comparable rent per square foot to Philadelphia.
I've only ever visited San Francisco once but from what I've read, it's surprising to see SF end up on multiple lists of highest quality of life cities in the US with no other US city listed.
Are these studies just biased to the wealthiest cities rather than something like the quality of life of the average or majority resident?
- csomar 5y ago> by living a 40 minute commute I mean, that's 2 hours commute everyday or 700 hours per year wasted on commute. That's almost 3 months worth of work wasted on commute. I'm not sure if you are thinking about it.
- eatonphil 5y ago40 minutes where I spend the time reading in my Kindle. I've done car commutes before and I don't ever want to do that again. Public transport commutes are something else (assuming the environment is decent, which I think it is).
- zepto 5y agoTo contrast, the time when I had a 40 minute car commute was heavenly for me. I loved the time to myself and to listen to autidobooks. When I switched to public transport, being jostled with a mass of people made it impossible to read a kindle, and even audiobooks were far less easy to pay attention to.