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As usual with this kind of thing, disentangling cause and effect is difficult. E.g., a long commute also indicates that you had trouble finding a job and could not find anything close to home. That is a signal of a generally poor position on the labour market, which might make you unhappy.
I'm a bit sceptical about the difference between 5 and 15 minutes commute. I suppose it includes a lot of people who work from home? That's an entirely different demographic anyway.
I'm a bit sceptical about the difference between 5 and 15 minutes commute. I suppose it includes a lot of people who work from home? That's an entirely different demographic anyway.
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I've got the longest farthest commute of my life but it's also the nicest. Well-maintained pretty country roads with only a few stops. Beats the hell out of even just a few minutes of interstate congestion in the city. It might even be less nice if it were shorter.
Everyone's commute quality will improve dramatically when humans stop driving.
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Yeah when this happens, I'm not even sure if I would mind a super-long commute, assuming I was given credit (i.e. time off or compensation) for work done while on the road. Otherwise, I don't know, I think I still wouldn't like a huge commute because even though I'd be free to surf the web, it's still time trapped in a car.
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Commuting time and average reported satisfaction with life. (Stutzer, Frey, 2008).
http://teleport.org/2014/06/commute-compute/
this is a utterly and wholly terrible graph.
(7.24 - 6.99) / 7.24 = 3.5%
nearly quadrupling the commute time decreases satisfaction with life a whole freakin' three and a half percent, not the 75% the graph makes it seem.
unless, of course, 6.9 is third world conditions and 7.3 is luxembourg. in which case the scale is utterly and wholly terrible.
In Europe we have a solution for that:
It's still humans driving, but they're doing it as their job, not as an additional chore.
My girlfriend commutes with her own car and I don't have even driver's license. Her commute is shorter in both distance and time spent. Still, it's she who complains, not me. I get to take a little walk every morning to wake up properly and I can read in the bus. Although, lately I've just been sitting and thinking during the ride. Why would you drive yourself when you can have a chauffeur do it?
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The same way you change the length of your commute.
Change your job or change where you live. You may also be able to change your route or method. Combinations can also be quite good, in London many people drive to the train station park and get the train.
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Only when you're taking public transit to work and not driving, I'd guess, and most Americans drive to work I think. When you drive to work you usually own the car and are in control of everything about it in the first place, so you can control a lot of the quality of the commute in that way. On a bus you are at the whim of the frequency of the service, how packed it is, what people smell like, etc.
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The quality of the inside of the car is only part of the overall quality of the commute. A twenty minute drive along a nice open road would be viewed as preferable to ten minutes of driving at five mph nose to tail with idiots in the other cars.
The same is true of public transport, not all journeys are the same. If you are travelling at a different time to everyone else there will be plenty of seats away from the occasional smelly person. The frequency of public transport is mostly determined of demand and return to the operator rather than whim. If say you live on the edge of a downtown area but work in the suburbs you could get a relatively empty bus running frequently out to the suburbs; which would be better than the journey in.
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I will post the results of my constitutency as they are announced.
Ireland uses Proportional Representation with a single transferrable vote & multi seat constituencies.
Galway West is one of the slowest to be counted as there are a lot of candidates and many are close together leading to recounts.
The first count should be on Saturday afternoon.
Votes are on paper.
I had a long sheet with 20 candidates to choose from.
I filled my vote all the way to #20.
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"Using information on 18,300 HUD properties across 15 metropolitan areas, the researchers mapped the nationwide picture of affordable housing. In the map below, the more expensive affordable housing is in red. In these places, transportation costs are more than 15 percent of what the typical local low-income household makes in a year. That means housing plus transportation costs are upwards of 45 percent the household’s annual income. The most affordable housing is in orange, where transportation costs are under that 15 percent threshold."
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