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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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