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>Perhaps you need a (e-)bike. Instead of taking 15min, you'd take 30min at city speeds. My old commute, prior to switching to full time WFH, was ~25 miles and
by HideousKojima 3y ago
>Perhaps you need a (e-)bike. Instead of taking 15min, you'd take 30min at city speeds.
My old commute, prior to switching to full time WFH, was ~25 miles and took 25-30 minutes by car depending on traffic/stoplights. It would take me an hour to an hour and a half on a typical ebike, and it would be far too cold to make the trek 3 months out if the year.
- rhn_mk1 3y agoI guess you chose your work/housing combo to be only friendly to a car. The alternative in this case is to choose a place where they are not so far apart - hardly impossible.
- HideousKojima 3y agoAt only vastly increased housing prices, sure.
- rhn_mk1 3y agoThat is not a given, see sibling comment.
- erik_seaberg 3y agoThe tech industry is scattered all around the Bay Area. I’ve had four jobs in the last sixteen years, and each of them has been at least twenty miles away from the next (San Francisco, Mountain View, Walnut Creek, Sunnyvale).
- rhn_mk1 3y agoPlace built to require X is unuseable without X unless the dependency is broken - news at 11.