[coldpie]

This is often true, but definitely not always, and significantly it doesn't account for the quality of the time spent. It would take me about 20 minutes to drive to work, and it takes me about 40 minutes by bus. I choose to spend 40 minutes reading a book on the bus instead of 20 minutes staring at someone else's bumper and getting road rage. The amount of times I hear people in the office whining about traffic & parking & other drivers always makes me feel weird because my commute in is so pleasant. While they're raging about other drivers, I was finishing up a library book.