• BlackAura@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    At best case 60 miles an hour… Your commute was more than 90 mins? Ugh. That’s awful.

    You weren’t clear if that was round trip or not, so possibly more than 180 mins? How did you find time to sleep!?

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      7 months ago

      In the San Francisco Bay Area, it’s not uncommon for people that work here but can’t afford to live here to have commutes of over an hour with good traffic (2+ hours with heavy traffic) each way. That’s the case in a few major metro areas in countries like the USA and Australia.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah Bay Area and LA traffic is next level. My condolences to those souls who make that drive every day

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          7 months ago

          My commute in the Bay Area is 15-20 mins without traffic, but it can be 50 minutes if there’s some incident on the 101 or if I accidentally try to commute during the highest peak period.

          I’d love to take a train to work, and I used to take Caltrain every day, but it’s just not feasible where I live now.

          I think LA is even worse than the Bay.

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      7 months ago

      Round trip was 100 miles every day. This was rural Ohio driving to Columbus so it was not to bad 2 and 4 lane roads till you hit the city most of them time. If we got a lot of snowfall it could super suck but I was from NE Ohio so most of the time it was not that much white knuckle driving. You just listen to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts or call some friends on your hour or so drive home