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actually with kids i want to live near the school. because while i could tolerate the occasional 1-hour commute to work, having kids needing to travel that far

by em-bee 3y ago

actually with kids i want to live near the school. because while i could tolerate the occasional 1-hour commute to work, having kids needing to travel that far every day to get to middle or highschool is even worse. (primary schools and kindergarten are more likely to be local, so that's less of an issue)

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>having kids needing to travel that far every day to get to middle or highschool is even worse In Austria I see highschool kids having >1h commutes every day. I wouldn't like it, but culturally it seems normalized and accepted here.
- em-bee 3y ago
  because austria has a sparsely populated countryside with mountains, so while accepted i think it only affects a small number of people. i am pretty sure that not many more would want to do that.
  - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    No mate, I'm not talking about pupils living in remote villages in the mountains but those living outside of big cities. They usually have a 30 minute bus/train ride to the city plus another 30 minutes is the overhead time for the trip from home to the bus/train stop and then from the destination stop to the school means about 1h in total or sometimes more is absolutely normal here for pupils to commute via public transport per journey. Which I guess explains the country's and employer's skepticism on remote work, everyone is so used to long commuting times their whole lives, they're desensitized to it and accept it for work as being the norm as well.
    - em-bee 3y ago
      i understand that, and it would actually support my argument which implies that in less mountainous areas more people could be living away from the city. however turns out that this is not necessarily the case: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/249029/umfrage/urbanisierung-in-den-eu-laendern/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/249029/umfrag... surprisingly despite its mountains austria appears to be at the lower end of urbanization

by em-bee 3y ago

FirmwareBurner 3y ago

>having kids needing to travel that far every day to get to middle or highschool is even worse In Austria I see highschool kids having >1h commutes every day. I wouldn't like it, but culturally it seems normalized and accepted here.

em-bee 3y ago
because austria has a sparsely populated countryside with mountains, so while accepted i think it only affects a small number of people. i am pretty sure that not many more would want to do that.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  No mate, I'm not talking about pupils living in remote villages in the mountains but those living outside of big cities. They usually have a 30 minute bus/train ride to the city plus another 30 minutes is the overhead time for the trip from home to the bus/train stop and then from the destination stop to the school means about 1h in total or sometimes more is absolutely normal here for pupils to commute via public transport per journey. Which I guess explains the country's and employer's skepticism on remote work, everyone is so used to long commuting times their whole lives, they're desensitized to it and accept it for work as being the norm as well.
  - em-bee 3y ago
    i understand that, and it would actually support my argument which implies that in less mountainous areas more people could be living away from the city. however turns out that this is not necessarily the case: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/249029/umfrage/urbanisierung-in-den-eu-laendern/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/249029/umfrag... surprisingly despite its mountains austria appears to be at the lower end of urbanization