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Ben Jennings | Bluesky
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Comic by Ben Jennings.
Two guys standing at the pump at a Shell gas station. The guy at pump 2 holds up the gas pump nozzle to his ear and tells the guy at pump 1 “Apparently, if you hold a Shell pump to your ear you can hear the shareholders laughing at you”.
Not to mention that living close to where the jobs are can be prohibitively expensive.
I'll go ahead and jump in before "you should have chosen a different line of work in a different part of the world where the problems you weren't expecting don't exist to the same extent yet."
This is kind of a false dichotomy. It's not like your only options are living downtown 2 mins walk from your office or living over 100 miles from your office.
100 miles is like working in Manhattan and living in Catskill. Which actually lines up pretty well with what OP said, Google says thats 3 hours by public transit and 12 hours by bike..... But it's also 2 hours 20 mins by car.....
FWIW, I agree it's not a binary, all or nothing situation. That said, circumstances change constantly (e.g., management no longer allowing remote work, divorce with joint custody of kids, or infinite other possibilities) that make a previously workable situation no longer work. I think the parent poster is correct, and the circumstances enabling relocation (including, but not limited to money) cannot be presumed.