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18Montclair: I used to live in the Bay Area, and lived about two years in Fresno. While living in Fresno I knew a few people who would make a daily commute from Fresno all the way over to the Bay Area, simply because the lack of affordable housing. I never really understood why they would do it though. There are many areas outside of California that are very affordable, and if it were me I would be looking into a move, not commuting from Fresno to the Bay.
18Montclair: I used to live in the Bay Area, and lived about two years in Fresno. While living in Fresno I knew a few people who would make a daily commute from Fresno all the way over to the Bay Area, simply because the lack of affordable housing. I never really understood why they would do it though. There are many areas outside of California that are very affordable, and if it were me I would be looking into a move, not commuting from Fresno to the Bay.
Its quite ridiculous. I actually moved not to have cheaper housing, but because I visited the area(Granite Bay) for a wedding and fell in love. After grueling commutes for a couple of years, I was at my wits end and decided to telecommute.
Very stressful and I feel sorry for the thousands of folks in NorCal and everywhere else that does that.
The attached article talks about a man who commutes 186 miles each way to work. Any other similar horror stories?
Cisco engineer gets prize for longest commute - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal: (http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2006/04/10/daily41.html - broken link)
There was an article a few weeks ago in the local newspaper that was talking about long commutes. It mentioned a woman in Pennsylvania was traveling three hours each way to work every day.
There was an article a few weeks ago in the local newspaper that was talking about long commutes. It mentioned a woman in Pennsylvania was traveling three hours each way to work every day.
Pennsylvania is becoming a MAJOR state for power-commuters. People are now moving to the York area and driving daily to work in Baltimore or Washington, DC. People are moving to my area and driving daily to New York City. It's not healthy, but people are doing it left and right.
This is crazy and way too far. A job may pay well but what about the cost of wasted time, traffic, and environmental foot print? I.e. 4 hours of commuting per day really adds up quick if you think of how much life you are wasting.
My biggest commute was from Dixon/Oregon, IL to Geneva, IL every morning to work 12 hour shifts. One way was 75 miles and 1.5 hours. So between work and driving, I was gone an average of 15 hours a day. Ugh. Thats something Ill never do again!!!
My longest commute was 13 miles in 90 minutes (if I was lucky). I had my choices of poison:
(1) Bus from my apartment to Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan (60-80 minutes) + 25 minute walk to the office, or
(2) 20 minute walk to a train, 50 minute train ride to Penn Station, 15 minute walk to the office.
I tolerated it for 4 months before I snapped. Now I live in Jersey City. I have a 10 minute walk to the PATH subway, 22 minute PATH ride, and 8 minute walk to the office.
There was an article in the Dallas Morning News sometime within the last year about long commutes and I remember reading about one man who commuted daily from Austin to Dallas and back - a distance of 200 miles one way. He'd leave at some ungodly hour and stop at the same place every morning for coffee. I can't remember now what his job was but NO job would be worth that.
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