Sometimes you have to live where you can afford. If you are a public teacher in San Francisco you likely have a very long commute. Sadly this isn't as uncommon

Sometimes you have to live where you can afford. If you are a public teacher in San Francisco you likely have a very long commute. Sadly this isn't as uncommon as you think, we're basically pricing out whole classes of people from living nearby their jobs. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/realestate/supercommuter-longest-commutes.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/realestate/supercommuter-... Where I live, Boston/Cambridge, there are many people that commute into the city because they pay slightly more than the suburb cities but at the cost of tremendous commute times because they can no longer afford to live in the city.