News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down. Parent comment

Re:San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by enraged_camel on Monday July 08, 2013 @03:45PM (#6008812)
No matter how life-changing a job is, the fact of the matter is that long commutes are almost always soul-sucking time-sinks that have a significant negative impact on the psychological well-being of those who do them.

Besides, the longer the commute, the less free time you have, which takes away from your personal projects and massively decreases your chances of innovating or inventing something new.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by pdenya on Monday July 08, 2013 @03:55PM (#6008872)
I can and do work on the train. Car commuting is soul sucking. Public transportation commuting isn't great compared to working from home or something but it's not as awful as all that.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by ryguytilidie on Monday July 08, 2013 @07:16PM (#6010044)
As someone who commuted from Santa Cruz to Mountain View and San Francisco to Palo Alto, I certainly understand this. However, walking to Bart, being one of the first on, sitting down and reading/working is vastly different than driving. Depends just as much on HOW you commute.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:San Francisco, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by msutherl on Monday July 08, 2013 @03:55PM (#6008876)
Bring a book? I get a lot of reading done on my 1-hour commute.
[ Parent | on HN ]