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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by munificent on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @02:42PM (#23157929)
The average American spends 4.3 hours per week commuting. If you go into the office every day, that gives you a 26.1 minute commute radius. If you go into the office twice a week, now your commute radius extends out to an hour.

Take a map around the office where you work. Look at the kinds of home prices you can find an hour out. See how much closer you can be to nature or other particular amenities that matter to you. Would you like to have those with zero total change to your commute time?

Sounds pretty nice to me.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by thebean11 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:40PM (#23162482)
1 hour doesn't get you that far in terms of home prices in SF/NYC
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:05PM (#23162652)
It's absolutely huge in Austin. There is a very high correlation between distance from downtown and housing prices because our traffic is so abysmal and our public transportation is a joke. Price for "equivalent" houses 5 mins from downtown vs. 35 mins from downtown is 2x minimum.
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