Commuters' limits

Charlie Gardner:

The data suggests that maximum mean travel time is somewhere slightly over 30 minutes, as indicated by the outlier example of New York, where most residents of the metro area apparently prefer to pay very high prices for housing rather than relocate to far cheaper, but more distant locales.

Sounds about right. Once a commute breaks the 30 minute mark, it starts to feel overly burdensome.

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