A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M

Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by mmanfrin on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:45PM (#15039032)

San Francisco is surrounded by cities which are not San Francisco. Manhattan is part of New York City, and is surrounded by more of New York City.

If someone lived 80 miles away from Zurich, in a German town such as Sankt Märgen, Google is telling me that it would take 2h 51m [1]. This tells me that if the woman in the Article made that same distance commute in German/Switzerland with, say, 30 minutes of slack, she would have to leave her house at 3:40am to arrive at work at 7am.

Let me now quote the article:

  When the second alarm goes off at 3:45 — a reminder to leave 
  for the train in 15 minutes — her morning shifts from 
  leisure to precision.

Hm.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Sankt+M%C3%A4rgen,+Germany/Z...

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by rjsw on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:53PM (#15039107)

You seem to have picked the town that is furthest away from an Autobahn in Southern Germany.

There are plenty of small towns along the Rhine or near the Bodensee that are commutable to Zurich.

People commute to Geneva from France too.

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by chx on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:56PM (#15039130)

The tram in Geneva goes to the French border, that's not comparable!

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by manicdee on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:51PM (#15042148)

That is the whole point.

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by woobar on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:04PM (#15039213)

How about Lindau? 80 miles from Zurich across the large body of water? Google shows 2:30-3 hours of morning commute by transit.

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by ucaetano on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:11PM (#15040431)

Nobody here is saying that for any town within 80mi of Zurich, the commute time is short.

I'm sure you can find dozens of examples where it isn't.

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by ucaetano on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:59PM (#15039161)

https://goo.gl/FxHp6P

53 minutes from Singen, DE, to Zurich.

You can buy a 1-2 BR apartment in Singen for <200k euros:

http://en.immostreet.com/germany/singen-457417

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by chx on Thursday August 17, 2017 @02:07PM (#15039236)

https://goo.gl/maps/BeMyux1Ha2T2

in less than 1.5 hours you can be in Zurich from Konstanz without a transfer (if you insist on 7am sharp then it's one transfer taking less than five minutes). Just in case you want to live in a nice university city and not a little village. And it's way, way cheaper than Zurich https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by pavel_lishin on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:58PM (#15040298)

New York is also surrounded by New Jersey, Connecticut, Long Island, Westchester, etc., etc., etc., and people commute into the city with reasonable travel times.

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Re:A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her to Work by 7 A.M by Markoff on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:25PM (#15041172)

i live in europe and dunno anyone who would be commuting more than 90-100km daily which is like 1hr by train, although most of the people are lazy to do even that even with decent public transport, so 80mi is very extreme example for europe

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