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My worst part of the commute is the last 5km to get to work and the first 5km when leaving work.
It takes me 15min to cover that 5km to get to the highway and another 30min to cover 45km!!
So even if i moved to 5km away i only cut my commute to a 1/3rd...And my house price has tripled.
My co-worker lives exactly half the distance from work that i do. We both have the same commute time wise. He goes through the city and i come from the outside. His house and land is the same as mine and yet he paid twice i did and pays property tax and mortgage double what i do. It takes him just as long to go to a store as me because hes constantly sitting at red lights while i have a 80km/h rural road with one or two lights.
And the people who say "oh, you commute 1 hour each way, thats 2 hours a day in the car, imagine what you can do with that time" are being narrow minded.
Unless you live AT work, you have a commute. It may be shorter but you still have to drive/bike/walk XX amount of time. So to compare someones commute to a ZERO value is misleading.
Lets not even take into consideration the fact that since i moved outside the city to a rural small town i CANNOT stand being anywhere near the center of a metropolis. You can take your "convenience" and "hussle and bussle" an i'll take my clean air, friendly neighbors and kids playing on the streets.
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