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Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by joker3 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @01:45PM (#16924073)
The people profiled in the article are a restaurant manager and a construction superintendent. How are they going to telecommute?
Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by rhacker on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @01:49PM (#16924108)
Once there are unlimited remote jobs, the theory is they can live next door to the restaurant and construction site again. At least over the long term. In the meantime - that is playing out in smaller towns where remote employees are living.
Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by reaperducer on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:01PM (#16924250)
>the theory is they can live next door to the restaurant and construction site

Yes, because construction sites remain under construction for 10-20 years. /s

Not everyone wants to find a new home every month.

Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by pessimizer on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:36PM (#16924604)
Not literally "next door." Closer than a 90-minute commute. It's strange that you would read it that way. (What if the restaurant weren't on a residential street, or the two houses next door to it were already rented?)
Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by rhacker on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @11:54PM (#16928674)
Actually many construction workers I've met on the road have RVs so yes they do ;) Not the kind of construction you're thinking of though - pipeline construction.
Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by majewsky on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:50PM (#16924761)
> Yes, because construction sites remain under construction for 10-20 years.

We're getting there.

Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by nathan_long on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @01:55PM (#16924190)
They're not. But if all the nerds spread themselves out over the rest of the country, the restaurants and construction projects wouldn't all be crammed up in Traffic Jam City, either.
Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by JetSpiegel on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:37PM (#16925251)
The reason restaurants exist is BECAUSE the nerds are all stuck in the same place and they need food.
Re:90-minute ‘super commutes’ more common as Bay Area housin... by nathan_long on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:03AM (#16932504)
You know that there are restaurants in towns across America, right?

I'm about to go vote for taco makers to have the pleasure of not living in a big city right now.