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Re:Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote wor... by ghaff on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @11:54AM (#33263992)
I assume that's just a bus/subway pass? At least where I live, parking at the train station, a monthly train pass, plus a monthly transit pass would be something like $500 or $600 dollars. To say nothing of taking almost 90 minutes door to door.
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Re:Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote wor... by distances on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:19PM (#33264396)
Yes that's the scale for monthly public transport ticket price in large number of continental European cities. I don't own a car so I may be out of touch with those expenses, 15% just sounded to me like a lot.

The time value is of course then on top, but the parent accounted for that separately.

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Re:Ask HN: Why don't I see gold at the end of the remote wor... by ghaff on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:30PM (#33264540)
A monthly bus/subway pass in the local large city is in that range as well--about $90. But, as in the Bay Area example, that starts going up quite a bit if you take rail that goes beyond the bus/subway system.

In Boston, if you don't have a car you almost certainly wouldn't be taking commuter rail with fairly few exceptions.

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