Why do people commute by airplane?
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My commute is 45 minutes, which is how long it takes me to pull myself out of bed and over to my desk 10 feet away.
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The way it should be
I remember a story about the absurd housing cost in London that showed it would be cheaper for him to live in Spain and commute by plane to London each day.
Barcelona is the best London suburb lol
@@Banom7a As someone who has lived in both, London and Barcelona, and in 2019 had flown 19 times in 7 months between those two cities, I can confirm the validity of that statement.
@@ElsenyoPol weird qualifications
Thanks to Ryanair
Well maybe I should move to Spain then
I live in an apartment above my business, so I just have to go downstairs.
My dream :D Or home office for the whole career. I dont get it why people drive to an office where they do exactly the same things they could do at home.
@@immermitderruhe I'm currently working from home myself. And I'm hoping my job makes it a permanent thing.
I'm literally doing the same exact work as I would in the office 0 change in efficiency. Going back to an office is somewhat outdated already. I hope more remote jobs are created down the line.
Are you bob and work at bob's burgers?
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Breaking the rules! Hahahaha
I cycle for 5 minutes to work and pay less than 20% of my wage in rent, I feel so blessed seeing this.
I work from home, and spend only 17 percent of my wages on rent.
How? I work as an accountant for a New York firm, but returned to my hometown in rural Wisconsin and was allowed to keep my job and work remotely.
@@stephenpeterson7514 wooo Wisconsin!
Where do you live? New Delhi?
I was only able to do that when I was living with my parents for no rent :)
My former boss's husband was one of those super commuters. He was a passenger in a 6 person Cessna from UC Davis to San Jose daily. 40 min flying time vs 3 hours in car traffic. Since he was a tech engineer in silicon valley he could afford what I assume were ~$100 daily tickets
Why not take the train? 2 hours, much cheaper.
@@user-cc7vx7sw4z This might be a rare case where a luxury high speed train is feasible (not the same type for mass transit used by Shinkansen, TGV, and ICE; a high speed train that is exclusively first class). But again, private plane is still more luxurious.
@@dbclass4075 no. Private plane is more private but not more luxurious. A small private jet like a cessna grand caravan is not comfortable.
@@jkjkjk100 But that is the point, though: Americans value privacy a little too much. Although that is due to most of USA being rural anyways, where privacy means literally no people around you. After all, you are expected to interact every people you meant and almost everyone knows someone about something.
For urban people, privacy is when no one cares what you do, even they are physically around. No one is expected to greet every people they met.
In summary, to be polite:
• spend some time with people in rural.
• spend as little time with people in urban.
@@dbclass4075 I'd think humans in general, no matter what part of world or culture you are, are like this... social norms dictate which is expected behavior. People living in rural long time crave to urban after 10 years or so, and vice versa.
Round of applause for the guy commuting by unicycle 👏
Bet he's paid for the CEO of Preparation H's kids college.
I really miss my 30 minute cycling commute. It's 5 hours of exercise per week that happened by default before, also with amazing scenery of Amsterdam.
It's also normal in Brazil. Lot's of high income people in Rio de Janeiro works in Sao Paulo, especially in the financial sector, so they take 40-minutos commercial flights daily or weekly, it's so normal that there's an expression for it "viver na ponte aerea", that means something like "Living in the air" ("ponte aerea" means something like "aerial bridge", and is the name that we use to define the high-demand route between Rio and Sao Paulo).
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It's a shame the Varig L-188s had to be retired and that there wasn't a good prop successor for it.
There are people that commute to San Francisco from Stockton. Housing is insane in California
It's not even a ridiculous notion either. You don't have to search very hard to find someone commuting from that kind of distance. Likely you'll have several coworkers with that kind of distance. And the traffic that generates makes the commute times of even smaller distances much greater.
I know people who lives in Kansas but have a "job" in the bay area, because he have a remote job that only require him to come every month, he can afford to do that.
I thought you said "Stockholm" and i got concerned haha
Yeah I know several people that do that. But even Stockton is getting expensive now too
Or even worse, to San Jose
I will never be rich but with a commute of around 8 minutes and working on shifts I can actually enjoy freely large parts of my working days too, that's unbeatable.
id much rather take a lower paying job thats 10-15 mins away than a slightly higher paying job 1-2hours away. time is money!!
That is the advantage of dense, mixed-use zoning, with transit-oriented development: commercial and residential integrated, and everything within walking distance of a transit stop.
Most West European, North Asian, and to some extent USA's East Coast cities are built this way.
@@dbclass4075 Yes but my situation is slightly different: I live in a very little town (not even 4000 people) and I'm quite lucky having found a work in here. All my other jobs before this one implied a commute of at least 35-40 minutes twice a day. That's why I can really appreciate the difference and if possible I would never go back to those jobs even though this one is a handwork more tiring than the others.
@@herrgado Even if we ignore the journey time, as long you are not driving and with reasonable comfort, you can do something within those 45 minutes. Either working a bit, or leisure. At least you don't have to deal with road Karens.
I'll willingly take a ten to twenty thousand dollar paycut for that kind of commute.
I guess everyone in Southern California is a super commuter then
Yeah but instead of super commuting to there job it's super communiting to the Walmart that's 5 miles away
No, too much pollution is made.
Australia has the reverse commute where people living in a city fly to remote areas to work then fly back for there equivalent to a weekend. I've done that with 8 days work and 6 off.
which jobs those are? Most jobs in this video were "urban", office jobs.
It's common in the US for people who work in oil especially if they're offshore or on the North Slope of Alaska. I had an acquaintance from college who "lived" in Houston but worked one month on/one month off in Kazakhstan.
@@Default78334 Alaskas enviorment is being destroyed 2× faster then the enviorment in other states.
@@effexon FIFO mining jobs
@@effexon FIFO as Brendan said. Fly in and fly out, big in Western Australia. If you go to Perth Australia airport domestic terminal, you will be met with a sea of high vis jackets. Most of those are off to work on remote mining operations. Exact work schedules differ, but its usually a combination of solid no break work (with the company feeding and housing you), then an extended time off at home. Means that you can effectively live anywhere within a 2-3 hour drive of Perth airport. Most FIFO worker in Western Australia are in the Perth area which due to the mining boom got very expensive to live in, and due to the 1 off commute people can go from further out.
It also created a new demographic , the CUB or cashed up bogan. Bogan is a derogatory term for working-class generally white Australians, think mullets hair styles, checked shirts, beer and v8 cars as the cliches. Then think what a single young working-class guy would do after going out on the mines and working solidly for couple of weeks then coming back with a big pay packet and some time on their hands.....
One of my favorite "commutes" was when I lived in South Korea. Walk across the street to my school, walk across another street for the grocery store (one giant, one family owned), and walk 15 minutes to a huge park... Not to mention surrounded by hundreds of local, affordable, often traditional eateries. Everything was pretty affordable because most people only know urban living, so everyone is used to living close together, in tall apartments, with all kinds of transport options. Don't get me wrong, there were some downsides (crowds crowds crowds) but it's almost always disappointing to go to US cities and rarely get a true urban-living vibe or connectiveness.
Best thing about living in ancient countries... there was no modern zoning, so everything is super naturally placed
Seems like there are some possibilities for high speed rail corridors
The USA is pretty resistant to anything that would detract from the importance of the car/help poor people on the taxpayer's dime. (Pick whichever explanation makes more sense to you-both have been suggested, and both have at least a grain of truth to them.)
The Northeast Corridor is exactly that.
@@dynasty0019 it is still quite low speed compared to European or Asian trains tho. Even in that corridor there is much room for improvement.
@Bob Landers nobody wants to pay for it, but if you look where there is a high demand for flights within 300-400 miles it will pay for itself over a 10-20 year period. And you'll have non-oil dependent infrastructure which can be used in 50 years when flights become to expensive.
And don't forget that when you do this on a big scale it becomes cheaper, and you'll create thousands of jobs.
Here where I live, northern Mexico, that's quite common among doctors, they work in local public hospitals but on the weekends they fly to the US to do surgeries or to their private offices.
Living in Casper Wyoming is crazy, because I always freak out when my State or City gets mentioned.
My goal is to mention everyone's hometown in a video. Just checked Casper off the list. :)
As someone who lives in Delaware, another often forgotten state, the last few months have been really weird since we’ve got a president now.
Everyone here in Scunthorpe, North Lincs, UK does the same every time they hear Tinie Tempah - Pass Out. :-D
@@weldin Delaware...y'all got there first and then called it a day
Being from Arkansas we just hear bad stuff about us all the time.
Commute by airplane sounds like the most wasteful/inefficient thing ever lol. Maybe there’s a problem with the way our American cities are designed, around cars
*gasp* it's same old culprit
Happens also in Europe ;)
@@frithjofwinkelmann9025 least yall didn't make it so bad...
I have an acquaintance who at one point spent 2 or 3 days a week in Switzerland and the rest here in Helsinki, Finland.
@@frithjofwinkelmann9025 Europe is still better planned.
When I was a UC Berkeley student my family lived in Sacramento and I often took Amtrak to return home during school breaks like Thanksgiving and winter. I can't imagine doing that every day I had a class, though I personally know someone who did at the time and she commuted all the way from Elk Grove!
I really hope that now when we start moving tours more of a home office system, we Can convert many office-buildings to residentual houseing instead
I'd imagine they'd be the most sound structurally and poorly insulated homes in America
This is my dream. Companies are starting to figure this out too; that having your employees WFH means that they don't need to pay rent for an office. One can dream
I have lived in New York City my entire life. From 1988 through 1993, my subway commute from Queens (Woodhaven) to the Bronx (South Bronx) was at least 90 minutes.
It was comfortable, because I always got a seat the entire way. During that period I read a ton of books. Really, the commute was the best part of the day.
Where did your glasses go?!
Yeah he looks weird without them
I heard they went to Harvard
@@lef4753
Yeah I heard they’re getting a masters degree in Ophthalmology too.
Plot twist: They didn’t go, he did
Looks like he might have eaten them.
I’m extremely fortunate that I live 5 minutes from my office in Atlanta. Unfortunately that means I’m also spoiled and I don’t know if I’d be able to handle a commute more than 20 minutes 😅
Jealous!
There's also the gentrification of city centers that has been driving middle and lower classes further away, like in London and Paris.
When I was in uni (Doha, Qatar), there was a girl who used to fly from Kuwait every single week for the courses.
She would ask us "when's the meeting? So I know which plane to book" 🤔
Straight from the airport to theibrary, and at the end of the day back to the airport.
As my mom is an airline pilot she has a company funded commute from Massachusetts to Detroit whenever she has to work.
The two most polluted places in all of America she has to commute to and from. Yuck
What airline?
I used to commute from Stockton to Palo Alto every day. Took me 3+ hours each way. Cut it down a little bit when I started riding the ACE train
The ad transitions on this channel are so smooth and relevant that I can't even be mad about it.
I live a 7 minute walk from work, I’m very blessed!
Greetings from São Paulo - Brazil. AVERAGE comuting time here is close to 3hrs/day. We are a city of. Super. Commuters!
Yes, we are! 2 plus hours in public transportation or in traffic is completely normal
Fastest commute in São Paulo is through Cometa.
5:27 Holy shit he actually included Modesto in one of his videos. We kind of are becoming more and more of a Bay Area commuter town. That's what my dad did except instead of working in tech, he did construction lol
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Agree 100%
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@@BrendanPJames I think they're about the same
@@chase7624 no. He makes click bait content.
My commute is about 3 hours round trip by bus. I used to hate it, but now I’m grateful for the time to myself listening to audiobooks. I had a lecturer on my graduate course that used to fly in from Paris, give our lecture, then fly home. That’s super commuting!
I'd rather live my life with less money rather than waste my life on comuting but I realise this isn't a luxary everyone can have
Yeah this is pretty common in California. People commute from all over California to SF. This phenomenon is caused by the insanely expensive sprawled out Bay Area (outside San Francisco, Oakland, and Daly City), and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. The sprawl means that a lot of cities don't have enough housing to keep up with demand. So we need to get cities to build more affordable housing.
That's not going to help because of the other aspect of American culture: every American is expected to own a single family house at some point. It's impossible to provide enough housing with this expectation.
Kyureki Hana huh? No they aren’t
@@KyurekiHana this stuff isn’t a big problem in other cities: DC, Chicago, Minneapolis, because they are willing to tear down buildings to build more housing to meet demand. It’s ridiculous that there is a spacious leafy suburb in the most expensive city in the world (sf) but local and states laws make it almost impossible to build.
@@KyurekiHana
Not really true anymore.
@@IkeOkerekeNews Which one? It is true that the expectation for single-family households has gone down, but it's also true that with remote work, it is feasible for an entire population to work while spread out over miles of suburbs.
Speaking from experience, many of us are super commuters because our cities' transit systems are so abysmal that what should be a short trip takes 90 minutes or more.
For many years, my dad had a 500 mile commute, he worked 7 days on and 7 days off so he had an apartment in the town where he worked and would drive home on his days off, the town where he worked, had a small airstrip but no commercial flights to it, Eventually, he got tired of his drive and started studying to get a private pilots license. He bought himself a small plane and would fly himself to and from work, cutting his commute time by a massive amount.
I used to commute from New Haven, CT to 72nd St in Manhattan every day by train with a folding bike. I got extra sleep on the ride in, so much reading done on the way home, which gave me time to decompress from work. Riding the bike also helped me stay in shape. I made new friends, and Fridays, we had happy hour on the train. Sometimes, I really miss that commute.
A woman who worked in the financial aide department at my college, Northern Kentucky University (in the Cincinnati metro area), lived in Louisville Kentucky which is exactly 100 miles away and drove to work every day. I found that especially crazy because I'm from Louisville too and always found it daunting to drive home to see friends and family. Never knew how she did it, maybe good podcasts?
I found odd (and somewhat worrying) you didn't mentioned more job locations built near housing, only the opposite. We need more decentralization of (good) jobs. Clustering through new density centers is good. Unfortunately outer suburbs and small towns are often ignored from the urban planning community, hindering their portential.
I think this could have the worrying effect of incentivising suburbanisation which could make smaller commutes longer but also have other issues like less prosperous metropolitan areas, I would suggest reading Strong Towns, an insanely good book, and if you really want to get into it, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
It's more complicated than that. One of many reasons is that some suburbs and most exurbs don't hire planners. Another reason of many is...have you ever met a developer because, oh.my.god!
A big reason US (and Canadian) cities don't have good transportation networks in their suburbs is the density is to low to support a service with any reasonable frequency. If new urban clusters were built out in the suburbs then it would provide that density, and these clusters could become train/metro stations with feeder buses into the surrounding sprawl. This would stop the funneling of everyone into the same place, reducing congestion.
Spreading out the jobs, if not working remotely, also causes problems: if your office is located away from where the talent lives, the talent doesn't want to commute. So you locate the office nearby. Then talent dislikes commuting, and so chooses living near the jobs. It's a network effect: the good jobs, the ones that pay well due to a general lack of talent in the population, will always end up located in a few large clumps. This is why things like Hollywood and Silicon Valley exist.
That doesn't mean a new clump won't form, but there has to be a large incentive to make it happen: something like a large corporation opening an office and hiring thousands. But the best will always naturally clump together for the mutual opportunity.
He did mention that - housing near transit stops. Many US cities have commuting trains that go into the smaller neighborhoods. This achieves clustering through new density centers. Once the population is clustered, the good jobs (with proper city cooperation) will follow.
Before I got my foot in the door in the music industry I was a college grad living deep in
San Bernardino County just an hour outside of DTLA. I landed an unpaid internship far on the other side of LA and for 3 days a week I would get up at 3:45am to get to work in the Valley at 8am. It was a 91 mile (144km) journey that took on average 2.5 hours going to work and 3+ hours coming home. Sometimes I took public transit too which usually took about 4 hours but saved me the trouble of having to drive.
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I just subscribed, watched a few videos, then saw there was a new video 5 seconds ago. Nice. 😂
As a fan of the channel who used to commute by plane, you have sparked my interest!
@@vlasisv3415 I commuted on a weekly basis to a few different locations. The fastest scenario was a 1 hour direct flight each way. The most time-consuming scenario was 2 one hour flights with a transfer between in either direction. Plus I had to drive an additional 2 hours from the airport to the final destination.
My dude, I love it when you drop videos like this. It really puts into prospective how far some people are willing to travel work their careers.
The nurse that took care of me after I delivered my last baby in San Francisco actually lives in Indianapolis!!! She flies and works 3 days a week here and then flies back. I was dumbfounded
They are call travel nurses.
Commute by plane: Groping a day by the TSA!
As a subscriber and Patreon supporter named Ian from Minneapolis, I appreciate the unintentional shout out.
I will shout out Minneapolis any chance I get. It's one of my favorite cities. I grew up in Wisconsin so I know it well.
I once met an Englishman who lived in Barcelona and worked in London. He flew every single workday. He saved a lot of money, got better food and more sunlight, and spent the entirety of his flights reading or working. He would crash at a friend's flat if he had a reason to stay the night in London. I'd love to catch him all these years later and see how long he did it for, and whether it ever drove him a bit mad!
Subscribed! Good content so far
I remember JetBlue offering Long Beach - Burbank flights when they shut down the Sepulveda Pass
2:17 That guy on the unicycle took the Clown to Accountant career path I've been hearing so much about.
In college I had a super commute of 3 hours by train one way from my college in NYC to my house in Long island. It typically takes 1.5 hours one way. But because one semester my class ended at 9pm and I got to Penn station typically by 9:30pm. But my train left at 9:25pm. Which means I had to wait an hour for the next 10:25pm train plus the 80 minutes train ride to go home.
This video sure rang true here - I was living in Northern California, deep in the redwoods (as the name implies) and had a consulting job in Santa Monica. I flew down every other week, working one week in SoCal and one week from my home office - I did this for nearly two years! My home in the woods was only a ten minute drive from a regional airport (two stop signs between my house and the terminal!) and there were hourly fligths from SFO to LAX. When you average it out, I was spending about an hour a day commuting and I got a lot of work done on the plane so it wasn't wasted time...
I live in Ireland and people commute to london
International commuting 😲 😬
Especially after the collapse of the Celtic Tiger this was a huge thing, still remains though.
@@PabloBatistaArq *laughs in european union*
@@FoufouBe laughs in Brexit
@@PabloBatistaArq ultra super commuters
What do you think the construction of high-speed rail will do for super commuting?
Unfortunately, It's doubtable that any real Metro-to-metro city pair HSR will ever materialize in the U.S. The 320km/h Dallas Houston Texas Central high-speed line is due to begin construction in the first half of this year, but my bet is - and I hope against hope that I'm wrong - it will fall victim to the same fate as the California HSR project - which is now a HSR from nowhere nowhere. 119 miles across five counties: Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Kern costing about $200 Million/mile. In comparison, France builds "real" HSR for about $12 Million/mile. China less that $7.5 Million/Mile.
Even if the DallasHouston HSR actually completes, the open question is will Americans actually use it? Americans have a disdain for "public Transportation" due to culture bias. Americans have been programmed to hate one another, and certainly to hate poor(er) people - whom they would never share "public transportation" with. For any here that have have used HSR in Asia, Europe, or even _Africa,_ we know it's an exponentially superior mode of transportation between city-pairs (500 miles or less) than air or auto. Americans, and their indoctrinated car culture, simply do not possess the social capacity to embrace HSR.
Constructing commuter rail (high speed or not), will allow people to live further away from their workplace. Obviously the faster the train is, then the further away you can live and some super commuters might not even be classified as super commuters after a train-line is built because their commute is now shorter.
I know a few people who travel in to London by train from nearby cities/towns. It is doable and it has the added benefit that less people use the roads.
@@shotelco
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Man, I love your videos very insightful as always!
Thanks so much!
thank you so much for this video! I’m currently working on my bachelors thesis, and this is actually one part of it (as my bachelors thesis is about high speed rail as an alternative to flying, but of course this new service also has downsides)
Thats cool, 2 things i always wondered about for highspeed rail (or maglevs, or generally any fast train) is if Amtrak could build them along existing highway right of ways (its already reserved land for noisy transit with a wide footprint, i figure highway interchages pose the bigest obstacle for this idea, but it should be easier than having to get through residential NIMBYs)
And 2, can trains have premium services to have your car loaded on as cargo at the back to solve the last mile problem, admittedly more usefull for rural destinations where you get dropped off in car dependent small town america. (The place cars actually make sense, not NYC) For reference bibwas checking out Amtrak's website to see if i could take the train home for Christmas (laughably bad at 20hrs to have the track stop 3hrs from my hometown, i can drive it in 6-7hrs, and going to destinations that have stops a car is twice as fast and doesn't end in the middle of a car dependent city), anyway I found 1 line they operate between DC and Orlando that advertises a take your car with you service to bypass I-91 in comfort which sounds so much better, especially if it makes the same time or better.
Anyway i wonder what your end result was, i know college papers can end in unexpected results first hand. (I did a paper on how to handle nuclear waste, turns out the cheapest and best option is to find a filled in subduction trench and bury it 3km deep in clay in land bound for the mantle and in the time it takes to surface as lava its already decayed to nothing. Hardest part is convincing Seattle to let you put it in the cascadia subduction zone clay filled trench)
This is nothing but child's play. Some people like Neal Page and Del Griffith have to commute by Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.
I wonder if that was the first time that someone said "transit" and the accompanying visual was of Houston Metro.
After having long nightmarish commutes throughout my worklife, I finally have a dreamy half mile walk to a new office.
6:25 Lol I was expecting he would say "and one of the things that most made me love my supercommute was to be able to listen to audible"
That would've been great merch
It's also insane, that Walmart has its own corporate airline for regional managers, flying and visiting several stores a day. Just because Walmart wants only one head quarter.
Here in Folsom (east of Sacramento), Intel runs a bus shuttle (The full-size coach variety.) to the nearest airport, from which people commute to San Jose. I think they also have less frequent services to the Oregon and Arizona sites.
I saw a video on exactly that. When you do the numbers, it makes commercial sense.
@@gregessex1851 yeah, it's done by wendover productions
2:45 как родная библиотека попала сюда?! Hello from Minsk, Belarus. Nice video, as always!)
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@@MrPaultoner да, но всё равно вероятность увидеть её здесь почти не какая)
I was just going to leave a comment on this, but surprisingly, someone from Belarus has already noticed the National Library! 😃
О, и тут русскоязычные есть! Привет из Азербайджана 👋😀
@@user-mp5kx3fy9i you don’t have to be from Belarus to recognize this building haha
I live in İstanbul and need(ed) to cross the Bosphorus (sea) ever day. I can take the underwater metro which with my non-electric scooter takes around 50-60 minutes of commuting one way but despite that I actually take the longer, around 70-80 minute one way, journey using a ferry. This means that I need to spend more time traveling but the ferry has tables to work and large, often empty couches to sleep on. Plus its more fun than trying to squeez yourself between people in the hot metro car.
super commuting is also found in extremely remote workplaces. For example, the mines of Western Australia; employees fly from the city and spend the week at the mine and then fly back at the end of the week
Married and you miss the commute = extra You time
The average commute time in 2020 is 0 minutes. Y'know, walking from your bed to your computer.
I heard a story from a job recruiter about someone with a transatlantic commute. He was an airline pilot flying in the US, but he lived in Spain. So he would take a flight across the ocean, work for two weeks, then fly back home for his two weeks off.
My dad used to fly from Philly to Chicago every other week and work from home on the alternate week. He did that for an entire decade right up until his retirement.
Never thought I’d hear the word commute so many times in one video
3h round trip? Noobs lol its 5 hours in Tokyo.
Lol I have been enjoying this channel for a while now. And I was so surprised to see my city - Minsk, Belarus (02:43)
My father was born in East Germany and finished school just as the country reunited with the rest of Germany in 1990. He then got a job in the south of Germany where he would get much more money than in former East Germany, with the disadvantage of having a 5+ hour commute twice a week, and sleeping in hotels at the cost of his employer, only being home for weekend. He usually did the trip by train or got picked up by someone by car, or sometimes got a car from work. He basically started supercommuting for getting more money in a place far away from home, and did so for 28 years until he decided to get a job near his family and home with now a daily commuting time of about an hour.
And I wondered what planes have to do with super computers lol
Lol
Often you say “but that’s for a future video” I want that future video
In the UK commenting for >90 minutes is very common, we have entire strings of ‘commuter towns’ following railway lines out of London and other cities.
I commute into DT Los Angeles every day, and I love my 45 minute Metrolink ride each way. I can wind up/down, read, work, space out etc.
I knew a girl from the University of Hawaii who lived in a neighbor island and opted to fly every time she had to come to uni. she said it was still cheaper than dealing with rent in Honolulu!
Because big airlines stop efforts to build high speed rail.
Cool Video! didnt know so many people are doing such extreme commuting!!
During High School and my 1st year of college, I had to commute 4 hours every day for my internship. 2 hours there, 2 hours back. And this was just within Toronto. I didn't have my own car at the time so I'd often wake up at 5am to get onto transit at 6 and arrive to work at 8. After work, I'd get home at 7pm. During my High School internship, I still had to do school work too!
Insane housing prices, my cousin lives in San Jose and a mid sized townhouse costs more than 600k
midsized townhouse for 600k? thats cheap compared to where I live, try 800k-1million LOL
@@philipvargas478 1 mil for a townhouse thats horrible where do you live?
@@retroarthanadi1626 Vancouver, Canada, And thats only the average, it goes up to 5 million sometimes.
@Sky Honkler that's not the only factor at play, there is: Low supply, developers building only luxury houses/condos, less housing variety, the majority of land in Vancouver is zoned for single-family homes, low-interest mortgages. I could go on. There is never only 1 factor that goes into most problems in the world, cuz life ain't simple.
I actually turned down a job because it turned out my future boss flew into London from Barcelona. I just couldn't tolerate that level of patent ignorance for global warming!
Racks my brain just thinking about it!
My mom has had home office for the last 20 years (visiting the office 30x a year by public transport, on association having "team building" in international hotels) but had plenty of contact with these kinds of lavish spenders, dismissing the notion of "future" or "consequences" (finance be like)
In the least nasty way possible, do you have children? Because if you do your would be bosses climate footprint ain’t got nothing on yours.
@@jasonfleischer3622 there are about 4 bilion people on this planet set to live with lower carbon emissions as 2 years of disposable diaper use, fabric ones and "Elimination Communication" make a difference... I haven't grown up to commute by airplane either.
one of ur best content!!!
I have a total commute time between 50-70 minutes one way. I cycle 10 minutes from my home to a ferry, take the 15 minute ferry and cycle for another 30 minutes.
Being a super commuter is a long term goal of mine for sure.
My guess is that it's because we don't have high speed rail
When I worked as an English teacher at a call center in Ukraine, it took an hour to walk from my apartment to the office. I enjoyed it for the exercise. But oddly, I would never want to live one hour by car from my workplace, even though both would take up 2 hours of my day.
I used to take the Capitol Corridor as well, except I went all the way to San Jose (SJSU). I was able to get most of a term paper done on that commute one time. It was also nice not having to deal with traffic on I-80.
Who else is watching this as they commute 3 hours to work 🙋🏼♂️
Yes, let's just travel a distance longer than my whole country (the Netherlands) every day
Also check out Not Just Bikes. You'll like his channel if you like this one.
@@AAscension Yeah that is a great channel! Watched all his videos multiple times.
+1 for Not Just Bikes!
This is exactly what I wanted to say. Also Not Just Bikes is amazing!
Just how small is your country?
Recently i transfered from my university just a click from my house to a university in a satelite city which was pretty far. Previously, i commute around 10 minutes by motorbike to my old campus which was around 4 km away, taking backstreets and avoiding rush hour on main roads. Now, after i moved campus, my current campus is around 30 km away and it takes me around 1,5-2 hours driving or around an hour motorbike. I know 30 km does sound pretty close, but because i have to "climb a mountain", pas through another city which has nearly jammed roads most of the time, and then "get down a mountain", pas a my universtiy's city suburb (which also sometimes pretty jammed), get inside the campus (my current campus literally occupies a large hill), and then get into my faculty building (literally driving to the faculty building). No Highways, just 2 way 2 lane roads thats always busy and slow traffic. If you met a truck in front, it's so hard to overtake it because we're passing through a mountain pass.
Crappy suburbs can make supercommuters. I lived in a nice, walkable urban neighbourhood. I got a job (that I really needed) that was close to two hours each way (though that fluctuated based on which shift I was on). The office was off in the wilds of a very suburban, car-focused part of the city. Sometimes when a colleague found out about my commute, they'd ask "Are you going to move closer?" My reply was always the same: "Hell no! I like where I live and I don't intend to work here forever." Finding a place you like living in can be a challenge, particularly if you have a limited budget. Giving it up to live someplace you don't like just for a closer commute is crazy.
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I love seeing your signs around sacramento friend!
When I lived in Los Angeles, I hated flying to Oakland twice a year to visit family. I could never do it everyday for work.
Because trains can't swim.
I remember when I was younger, I took the train into the city and sat across from a man who said this was his daily commute, 80 minutes one way 4 times a week. I was blown away. But he said the housing costs; even back then (15-20 years), made it economical and family was rooted already.
I love this channel
Thanks so much!
I have a brother who lives on the gulf coast, but works in anchorage, Alaska. He travels back and forth every two weeks