Comment by mdorazio
3 years ago
The data does not support your statement. For example: https://www.geotab.com/time-to-commute/
Sure, if you cherry pick the worst possible commutes in the worst commuting cities you're going to find pockets of ~1hr commuters, but the broader claim simply isn't true and is perpetuated by people who are themselves trying to justify their overly long commutes. The large majority of people value their time too much to put up with commutes over about 40 minutes.
That data for people commuting into cities seems pretty consistent with what I said. A minority have a less than 30 minute commute. A significant majority aren’t more than an hour. I certainly agree that more than an hour isn’t common though 10-15% isn’t nothing. I did that part-time for about 18 months and it really isn’t sustainable.
Also presumably the number goes up if you exclude people who live within the metro whereas I specifically excluded that group.