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Interesting article. I hate commuting but love road trips. Driving every day for work is a hassle, whereas road trips are fun and entertaining. I like to see new things not the same boring trip over and over again.
I'm lucky as i can be to work 3 miles away in 5 minutes from my house if i take the highway or 10 minutes if I take the 25mph road there.
I was looking at getting a job in a city 25 miles away and I would need to get paid a lot more. That's about 1 hour a day, 5 days a week or 250 hours a year gone, wasted to sitting in my car. I could be sleeping, spending time with my wife or kids. That's 12.5% of a full time job spent driving and wasting gas. Even the most efficient car isn't going to make up for my time lost, because though i make $24 an hour, my time off is worth far more than that to me. The cost of gas is only a small amount of the total cost to my life to commute.
I feel bad for people with 1-2 hour commutes each day, what a pain.
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