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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 04:20:40 JST Jacek Wesołowski

   • linus

   @linus One thing that makes me wonder is: are there really places in the world where typical work commute is 90 minutes? I live in a city of two million people and my worst ever was 75 minutes. 40 minutes is what I'd call typical.

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 04:20:33 JST Brendan Jones

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     @jzillw @linus People commute between cities/towns. Very common here in the Netherlands. Still, I agree that I have doubts about 90 minutes being normal. An hour? Absolutely. But I’d hope 90 minutes is on the small end of the bell curve.

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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 04:59:40 JST Brendan Jones

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     • linus

     @matt @jzillw @linus Ba-dum-tiss

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     Matt 🌻 (matt@oslo.town)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 04:59:43 JST Matt 🌻

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     • linus

     @Brendanjones @jzillw @linus I guess you have to double it if you intend to go home. 🤭

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 05:13:28 JST GNU Too

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     I have friends who live on one side of Metro Detroit and work on the other side and commuite one way can often reach 90 minutes in about 60 miles, and Detroit traffic isn't really that bad. Chicago is far worse, and I'd hate to see cities whose population grew much quicker than its infrastructure like Austin over the past 10 years.
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     Brendan Jones (brendanjones@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 05:41:45 JST Brendan Jones

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     @Jfrites @jzillw @linus Wowsers, alright. I was doing 50 mins - 1hr each way last year from Utrecht to Amsterdam, but it was bike > train > bike. It’s way more relaxed than driving an hour. Also, my company didn’t care when I came in so I only did it as much as I wanted, which was generally 3 days a week because I like seeing other humans and I liked my colleagues. I totally get why you want wfh in place of 90 min commutes, 5 days a week.

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     Jfrites (jfrites@shakedown.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 05:41:47 JST Jfrites

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     • linus

     @Brendanjones @jzillw @linus Mine was 90 minutes each way in Los Angeles.

     My life changed when that office closed!

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 05:44:16 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     • Jfrites

     @Brendanjones @Jfrites @linus Confession: I live in Warsaw, but I work in Hamburg. Eight hours by train (with a very convenient transfer in Berlin). :-) Remote work is a bit of a miracle. Still, I do miss my team, they're nice.