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"Extreme Commuting"
Apr. 24th, 2006 03:44 pmI'm somewhat amazed by this Newsweek article (via MSNBC) about "Extreme Commuting" -- people who commute over two hours, both ways, to work. There are apparently 3.4 million of 'em.
That's a really long time. Specifically, it's 11.9% of the entire week spent commuting to work, or 17.8% of waking hours, assuming you sleep 8 hours per night, which I'm guessing these people don't. After you take out work and sleep, it's 22.7% of all uncommitted time, and an even higher fraction when you consider that a lot of "uncommitted" time is committed, to things like eating, showering, brushing your teeth, etc. And that's all for a two-hour commute -- some people in this article have commutes of 3 hours or more (186 miles into LA, for instance) they make every day.
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That's a really long time. Specifically, it's 11.9% of the entire week spent commuting to work, or 17.8% of waking hours, assuming you sleep 8 hours per night, which I'm guessing these people don't. After you take out work and sleep, it's 22.7% of all uncommitted time, and an even higher fraction when you consider that a lot of "uncommitted" time is committed, to things like eating, showering, brushing your teeth, etc. And that's all for a two-hour commute -- some people in this article have commutes of 3 hours or more (186 miles into LA, for instance) they make every day.
( Cut so I don't kill your friends page... )
