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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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