>Restricting your employment options to a small, say cyclable area around where you live can be extremely limiting for your employment opportunities You're mis

>Restricting your employment options to a small, say cyclable area around where you live can be extremely limiting for your employment opportunities You're missing the forest for the trees. If you live in a mid-sized city in the Netherlands and want to limit yourself to a 1 hour commute by public transit, there are just as many, if not more opportunities than if you live in a mid sized city in the US like Richmond because the Netherlands is that much denser, and transit optimizes for commercial centers. The difference that in the Netherlands, you still have the option of commuting by car, whereas, in the US you'd have to move.