> "the commute is actually okay" is the reason people buy houses in the suburbs. No, the reason they do it is to buy a house with three bedrooms and a yard fo

> "the commute is actually okay" is the reason people buy houses in the suburbs. No, the reason they do it is to buy a house with three bedrooms and a yard for $225k instead of, say, paying $4000/mo for a shoebox they can never meaningfully aspire to own. The Commute is only a candidate reason they wouldn't make the move. (And if large cities had sane housing policies and lots of supply, this all might be less of a problem, but, well, that's not our world.)