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The people who say this usually have a quick walk around the block to the office or a pleasant bike ride through a city park, not a 2 hour slog.

assimpleaspossi 3y ago
The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work. In my city, a metro area of nearly three million, you are 20 to 30 minutes from anywhere.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  This probably depends on where you live. I don't currently work in a large city, but the last time I did, I lived 5 miles as the crow flies from my workplace. The commute time averaged 90 minutes one-way if I drove, and 2 hours one-way if I took mass transit. On bad days, both of those travel times would double.
  - assimpleaspossi 3y ago
    Of course it depends on where you live and I'm saying most people don't need 90 minutes to two hours to travel five miles to work as you claim.
- the_af 3y ago
  > The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work The majority of people where, exactly? Your comment doesn't seem context-aware.
  - assimpleaspossi 3y ago
    On planet Earth.
    - the_af 3y ago
      Ok, I'll bite. Where are the statistics supporting that? In my case (Buenos Aires, IT work) it used to be the case that people all over the city and surrounding areas had to commute to the city's "microcenter" (what we call the financial/historical district), resulting in typical commute times of 1 to 2 hours. Dreadful. So your statement doesn't ring true for us in Buenos Aires.
      - assimpleaspossi 3y ago
        Does it hold true for the rest of the country? As in most of the country?
        the_af 3y ago
        I think it's better in the rest of the country, but since (unlike say in the US) a disproportionate number of Argentinians are concentrated in Buenos Aires, and the major tech companies are here, the rest of the country doesn't really matter in this context (with a few exceptions that don't even come close to Buenos Aires). What statistics are you working with to support your point about planet Earth?
- nec4b 3y ago
  >>In my city, a metro area of nearly three million, you are 20 to 30 minutes from anywhere. Really, you know this for all 3 million people?

assimpleaspossi 3y ago

The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work. In my city, a metro area of nearly three million, you are 20 to 30 minutes from anywhere.

JohnFen 3y ago
This probably depends on where you live. I don't currently work in a large city, but the last time I did, I lived 5 miles as the crow flies from my workplace. The commute time averaged 90 minutes one-way if I drove, and 2 hours one-way if I took mass transit. On bad days, both of those travel times would double.
- assimpleaspossi 3y ago
  Of course it depends on where you live and I'm saying most people don't need 90 minutes to two hours to travel five miles to work as you claim.
the_af 3y ago
> The majority of people do not need two hours to get to work The majority of people where, exactly? Your comment doesn't seem context-aware.
- assimpleaspossi 3y ago
  On planet Earth.
  - the_af 3y ago
    Ok, I'll bite. Where are the statistics supporting that? In my case (Buenos Aires, IT work) it used to be the case that people all over the city and surrounding areas had to commute to the city's "microcenter" (what we call the financial/historical district), resulting in typical commute times of 1 to 2 hours. Dreadful. So your statement doesn't ring true for us in Buenos Aires.
    - assimpleaspossi 3y ago
      Does it hold true for the rest of the country? As in most of the country?
      - the_af 3y ago
        I think it's better in the rest of the country, but since (unlike say in the US) a disproportionate number of Argentinians are concentrated in Buenos Aires, and the major tech companies are here, the rest of the country doesn't really matter in this context (with a few exceptions that don't even come close to Buenos Aires). What statistics are you working with to support your point about planet Earth?
nec4b 3y ago
>>In my city, a metro area of nearly three million, you are 20 to 30 minutes from anywhere. Really, you know this for all 3 million people?