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Re:Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions' by sakopov on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:01PM (#13100598)
Oh i'm sure people commute. A 4 hour drive is fairly reasonable. I live in Denver and commute to Kansas City (8.5 hours) once a month to visit my folks. If you include gas prices and the price of rentals it comes out to be cheaper than flying and renting a car in KC. With shorter distances this would probably be a huge factor for many. For example, most folks in KC drive to StL which is a 3.5 hour drive. I don't think anyone I've ever known in KC flew to StL.
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Re:Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions' by stingrae on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:09PM (#13100640)
When I think of a commute, I think of a daily activity that takes someone back and forth to work. Given that definition it seems totally unreasonable for someone to spend 4 hours going one way.
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Re:Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions' by Spooky23 on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:31PM (#13100754)
A small number of people do stuff like this.

I worked with a consultant who lived near Scranton so he could commute to a large number of places. (Syracuse, Albany, NYC, Jersey, Philly)

Drove 3 hours a day one way!

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Re:Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions' by detaro on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:51PM (#13100862)
The dataset includes things like NYC-LA, so it clearly includes non-daily commutes as well.

The final clustering excluded trips between points >=262 km from each other though.

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Re:Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions' by GordonS on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:46PM (#13100834)
> A 4 hour drive is fairly reasonable

Erm. No, it's not. I'm sure there are a tiny percentage of people doing this out of necessity, but spending 8 hours a day commuting is not even remotely 'reasonable'.

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Re:Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions' by adevine on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:08PM (#13100638)
When the article says "commute" it's mainly referring to people who commute daily (or often) for work.
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Re:Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions' by pessimizer on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:48PM (#13100846)
There are people who commute for clusters of days, though. If you work a three-on, four-off schedule, commuting in to start the three and out when the three are done is perfectly reasonable for a distant job and doesn't preclude having a healthy home life, too. There are also people who are mostly remote and only come in once a week for face-to-face meetings.
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Re:Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions' by makeapoint on Sunday December 04, 2016 @06:47PM (#13102424)
Airline pilots can commute from Phoenix to Minneapolis regularly.
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