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Mine is only 15-20 minutes. But recently leadership gave an employee at a different office an award for something else. The guy had to give an impromptu speech about it. He mentioned the usual stuff but then commented on how his commute was an extra hour compared to his previous job, but “so worth it”. I wanted to reach through the screen.

I drive my car to work so I can afford a car so I can drive to work so I can afford a car

like an american would drive a vehicle as small as an accord

If you saw how expensive and shitty our trains are you'd pick the accord too

Having taken the bus to work for two years now, I have to say.. The complete and utter lack of responsibility has been liberating. Like, sure.. There's still some stigma there where I feel kind of poor or something standing in my uniform at the bus stop while cars whiz past me, but I only spend $70 CAD /mo on my commute, and it I want, I can travel anywhere in the city using that same pass. That's pretty reasonable.

Plus, as someone actively engaged in nature-based spirituality, it feels kind of nice knowing that I'm traveling a bit more responsibly than I would have with our vehicle.

I like four-bangers, I like short shifters, I like si's, subarus, lancers, pop pop pop on the downshift, stomp click click vrooom.

Do I get stuck in traffic sometimes? Ehh, once a week maybe.

Would I give it all up for the betterment of humanity as a whole, and hang my childhood on the memory rack forever?

...yeah. The irony of that, though is that being American and living in the rural south gotta throw the glowies a bone every now and then It's barely even considerable, at all. There is no bus route. There is no train. There's no carpool, I work third with one other person who lives on the other side of the city.

So, if I have to drive, and my preferance is 32mpg little cars, and for now... I have to, and I enjoy it,...

then I'm gonna.

Yeah cause everywhere they go is in the Swiss Alps with wine. Not a single European has a shitty commute. This is grass is greener at its finest.

As a german: Are those 200mph trains in a room with me?

Yes but at least Trump is saving me money with the Freedom Fuel Network™

proceeds to pay >$100 to fill up the emotional support truck

/S massive giant /s since there are idiots who really think this, even after the Iran war erupted

Yeah but can they do it while knowing that one tenth of a percent of their population has increased their wealth at a rate ten times more than the top 90% of earners in their society? Didn't think so. Take that, losers!

Some of those Americans are washing their gas station sandwiches down with gas station wine too.

Man, I tried to do public transport to work. I was in the best situation. I lived walking distance to the light rail, my office was on the other side of town, within walking disance to the light rail.

leave at 7:30, walk to the rail by 7:50, not bad buy a ticket on the automated machine and wait, assuming 1 of the 3 machines was working. 50:50 honestly. trains come every 15, except they don't.
On a good day, the train would be there by 8, on a bad day, maybe 8:30 Ride it for 20 minutes, 4 stops, until I need to switch trains. Get off train 1, buy a ticket if the machines there work, god forbid there's no ticket on the first run and a train already there, i'll be waiting for another train. train 2 shows, on a good day, 30 more minutes to my work stop, on a bad day, 45. i hop off at my stop, walk 15m to the office. I'm at the office between 9:30 and 9:45. If it's hot i'm covered in sweat. If it's cold i'm freezing. Luckily my job DGAF what time we show up.

2h there, 2h back.

except after 7:30pm, trains go to every 30 minutes, which means maybe every 45.

If there's an accident, a bus bridge will easily make that one way trip 4 hours.

If I drive, I'm there in 27 minutes.

3.5 hours a day to take public transport here for a 30m drive.

We're not clusters of towns with jobs where everything is near transport and even when things are close our trains are slow an full of homeless trying to stay warm in the winter. I would have loved to hell to get rid of one of the cars. but giving up 1/4 of my family time on a job that already wants 10 hours a day wasn't negotiable.

Yeah but some trains come every two hours like the commuter rail. So like wait two hours for a train or be in traffic for three hours and then and then that's not even taking into account the travel time which could be up to another two hours. ..... There's no fuckin' winning

What could take an hour on a good traffic day can be a four hour total trip by public transportation.