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Uh, it's like comparing the best life you could have in Western Europe with the worst life you could have in American suburbs.
It's no different from comparing an American surgeon earning 400k yearly in Manhattan to a person surviving in Belarus or Albania. Same bias but flipped in opposite direction.
Both comparisons would be unfair.
I am not saying life is worse in the EU than in the US, but there are many better ways to argue that more logically using data.
Mine is only 15-20 minutes. But recently leadership gave an employee at a different office an award for something else. The guy had to give an impromptu speech about it. He mentioned the usual stuff but then commented on how his commute was an extra hour compared to his previous job, but “so worth it”. I wanted to reach through the screen.
Not a Honda Accord, but a Honda Ridgeline.
However, it's the only comfortable seat I own, so I don't mind it.
Trains where I am suck because the seats are too small, and no matter how little space there is next to me in a train seat, some fat guy always sits there. Usually right after he's eaten a meal of nothing but raw garlic.
Yeah but some trains come every two hours like the commuter rail. So like wait two hours for a train or be in traffic for three hours and then and then that's not even taking into account the travel time which could be up to another two hours. ..... There's no fuckin' winning
What could take an hour on a good traffic day can be a four hour total trip by public transportation.
Yeah cause everywhere they go is in the Swiss Alps with wine. Not a single European has a shitty commute. This is grass is greener at its finest.
Being Canadian in what is one of our larger (not major to be clear like 150k people) cities, when I went to the office it took 10ish mins. I moved a bit so had varying times. I work from home now so doesn't really matter.
That said I love listening to audiobooks in the car. My android phone has been odd for connecting but working lately so I just continue on whichever book I'm listening to, for about 3mins to the store. I don't go far heh. Bit longer if I drive closer to the office for a car wash every few weeks.
Yeah but can they do it while knowing that one tenth of a percent of their population has increased their wealth at a rate ten times more than the top 90% of earners in their society? Didn't think so. Take that, losers!
Meanwhile I do a delivery job and blare Free bird while going 90 in my 01 Tacoma. If it makes it any better it only goes 90 on gods forsaken desert roads while Free bird is playing, I got it to accelerate so fast the front lifted up last time
Some Americans' commutes, possibly. I have known people to inflict this sort of thing on themselves and I don't see the appeal.
I live in an area where the public transit is notoriously dysfunctional, but my commute is about five minutes by motorcycle. Maybe as much as seven on some days if the traffic lights aren't cooperating with me. On the weekends I ride up to the mountains and enjoy plenty of freedom.
Hell, if you nerds would buy more knives from me I could quit my day job and not have to go anywhere. Think of the carbon savings!
like an american would drive a vehicle as small as an accord
Plenty of Accords in the US. It's a pretty popular car over here.
for the poors, maybe /s
This made me laugh because I do indeed drive an Accord. I hate that sedan’s seem like they’re dying.
think about how I feel, with wagons pretty much already dead for the past decade
They're still popular here in Europe. My last car was a wagon.
I'm still grieving horsedrawn carriages. 😔
He’ll yeah. We need good mass trains it. Fuck my car and its mother.
Man, I tried to do public transport to work. I was in the best situation. I lived walking distance to the light rail, my office was on the other side of town, within walking disance to the light rail.
leave at 7:30, walk to the rail by 7:50, not bad
buy a ticket on the automated machine and wait, assuming 1 of the 3 machines was working. 50:50 honestly.
trains come every 15, except they don't.
On a good day, the train would be there by 8, on a bad day, maybe 8:30
Ride it for 20 minutes, 4 stops, until I need to switch trains.
Get off train 1, buy a ticket if the machines there work, god forbid there's no ticket on the first run and a train already there, i'll be waiting for another train.
train 2 shows, on a good day, 30 more minutes to my work stop, on a bad day, 45.
i hop off at my stop, walk 15m to the office.
I'm at the office between 9:30 and 9:45. If it's hot i'm covered in sweat. If it's cold i'm freezing.
Luckily my job DGAF what time we show up.
2h there, 2h back.
except after 7:30pm, trains go to every 30 minutes, which means maybe every 45.
If there's an accident, a bus bridge will easily make that one way trip 4 hours.
If I drive, I'm there in 27 minutes.
3.5 hours a day to take public transport here for a 30m drive.
We're not clusters of towns with jobs where everything is near transport and even when things are close our trains are slow an full of homeless trying to stay warm in the winter. I would have loved to hell to get rid of one of the cars. but giving up 1/4 of my family time on a job that already wants 10 hours a day wasn't negotiable.
I drive my car to work so I can afford a car so I can drive to work so I can afford a car
I believe 20% of household spending in the US was for cars. So people could seriously work a day less every week, if they got rid of their car.
Really I wish I could live without one. Ive decided on harm reduction instead.
I learned something weird about cars and money and such just this last week. I got tired of working on a truck just to spend more money dumping fuel in it, and I took what I considered the nuclear option. I traded the truck in. On a used 2nd generation Nissan Leaf.
The car wasn't expensive. I could easily afford it. But as I was working on the required financial gymnastics to fit a car payment in my budget, I saw that the truck has been using $200 of gas every month. And the auto insurance dropped by about $100 each month. The car payment is $200. It costs something like 70 cents to charge it after my commute.
The silly car isn't cheap. It's free. And its so quiet and smooth, no wonder people get evangelical about their EV's.
I got a shiny car. I like shiny things lol. That's all it's got going for it. I would rather be drunk on a train haha
Having taken the bus to work for two years now, I have to say.. The complete and utter lack of responsibility has been liberating. Like, sure.. There's still some stigma there where I feel kind of poor or something standing in my uniform at the bus stop while cars whiz past me, but I only spend $70 CAD /mo on my commute, and it I want, I can travel anywhere in the city using that same pass. That's pretty reasonable.
Plus, as someone actively engaged in nature-based spirituality, it feels kind of nice knowing that I'm traveling a bit more responsibly than I would have with our vehicle.
I would love to have this opportunity because I fucking hate maintenance on my car. As soon as my car senses my bank account reaching a certain threshold it decides that the starter should die the next weekend.
I feel you friend, I'm the same way. I've told so many people that and they are so carbrained that they refuse to understand anything beyond time to get there. Yes my bus takes about 10-20% longer, and they immediately augh at me for being a fool, such a fooly fool.
But my ride is mine. I read a book, I think about other things, my time is mine. It's not worried if the asshole will cut me off, the heightened blood pressure, the anger, the worried if I'm in an okay parking spot. None of that exists. I'll gladly take 45 minutes on the bus over 30 minutes of stressful driving.
god, I wish. bus routes here are generally 3x longer at minimum
last route I checked against a 22min drive was 90min by bus
Where I live, and for the places I want to go, typical travel times are:
Or:
And, that's if it's a good time of day for transit. If I'm coming back home near 11pm the transit option can be essentially the same as walking. If I have the option to leave at 11:15 so I can arrive 5 minutes before the bus instead of leaving at 11:00 and waiting 20 minutes for the bus, and the bus is on time, and the bus I'm supposed to connect to is on time, then the bus option can be noticeably faster than walking. But, if the first bus is running late (which happens all the time) it can mean missing the next connection, and walking is actually faster than taking the bus, even if it's a walk of more than an hour.
So, needless to say, I bike whenever the weather permits. But, unfortunately, winter is awful here, the bike lanes and trails aren't plowed in the winter, so biking for roughly half the year isn't a real option.
Yeah, I can tolerate up to 2x the length of the drive, above that is where I start to get annoyed. I know transfers happen, and they are unavoidable, but a well oiled system keeps them to a minimum and keeps bus routes direct.