(August 21, 2014 at 4:38 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(August 21, 2014 at 4:26 pm)Diablo Wrote: A commute isn't so bad. If you can use a train you've got time to read a book or post on some shitty forum, if you have to drive you can spend the time deciding what to do at work. Or cuttting in front of middle-aged women.
Sure. My current commute is 12 miles, public transit is not a viable option (the nearest bus stop that takes me to the train is over a mile away - and I'm disabled (the transit commute excluding the walking portion is 75-90 minutes). Driving that 12 miles often takes an hour, sometimes 90 minutes. That's one of my primary motivators - I want to spend less of my life sitting in stop and go traffic on the freeway, and I'd like to be more environmentally responsible.
Half an hour on a train or bus is about all I can take - I'm disabled enough that standing for half an hour is difficult, but not so disabled that anyone actually will give up one of the disabled-reserved seats for me. I might as well just get an apartment near where I live now if I don't get a shorter commute out of it - rents are far cheaper here than in Portland.
Oh, I didn't know that. I hope I didn't upset you.
