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Re:Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf] by bsder on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:19PM (#21718494)
> When I worked in Manhattan, I spent the extra $1,000/mo. to live within a couple blocks of work

A distance of merely 5 miles can take rent in Austin from $2000 to north of $3500. San Diego and LA have similar (and worse!) gradients in places.

The problem is your rent competition is 4 tech bros rooming together. That's an awful lot of money pushing the prices up.

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Re:Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf] by steelframe on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:03PM (#21718672)
When I lived in Austin, I lived 10 miles from work and paid $1,300/mo mortgage for a new construction 2,000sqft house. The commute was 14 minutes at ~85mph, mostly on SH 45 in a sports car.

This was when SH 45 first opened up, so things hadn't yet built up around it to clog it up. Not sure what traffic looks like these days.

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Re:Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf] by bsder on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:43PM (#21727883)
SH45 is a suburb crossover belt and is quite significantly away from downtown where most of the jobs and issues are.
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Re:Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf] by copperx on Friday December 06, 2019 @04:40AM (#21720343)
How many decades ago was this? From what I've heard, things have become exponentially more expensive.
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Re:Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf] by steelframe on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:38PM (#21725751)
> How many decades ago was this?

Er... two. Now get off my lawn.

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Re:Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf] by blaser-waffle on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:19PM (#21725069)
And traffic exponentially worse
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Re:Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf] by asdff on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:57AM (#21719982)
I don't think LA has quite the same gradient problem. Rents are high, but every neighborhood (aside from straight up mansion neighborhoods where there aren't any jobs anyway) is going to have the same $1800-2000 1br apartments. Sometimes that apartment is nicer in some places, others more dilapidated, but the price point seems to be pretty constant all over town.
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