[helen___keller]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but yeah sure

I had a summer internship in the suburbs of boston and drove out from the city every day in the early 2010s. Practically door to door traffic, stressful unprotected left turns, masshole drivers abound, the works.

After that summer I swore off car commuting. I ended up with the same commute after graduating but by public transit. Since transit to the suburbs is awful, it was a 3 seat ride - train to the commuter rail station, commuter rail to the suburbs, then bus to the workplace, about 1-1.5 hr each way.

After quitting that job for a job in the city (with about 20-30 min commute by train each day) i swore off the suburbs altogether. Life is too short for that nonsense.

[ghaff]

Well in MA between the city itself (a couple of them actually), Metrowest, North Shore, and South shore people and companies are spread over a very large area and a lot of people and their partners are only willing to compromise so much for a better commute.

I’ve only had one really bad one - about 90 minutes way into the city but not every day.

But when I was going into an office-which I haven’t regularly for a long time a 30 to 45 minute was pretty normal once I bought a house that wasn’t basically next door to the office.

There basically weren’t tech jobs in Boston proper in my memory though that’s changed quite a bit.

[cpfohl]

Curious where your job was? Assuming Woburn or anywhere in the westernmost stretch of 95/128? My first job out of college was at BBN Technologies in Cambridge, but I was living in Beverly on the north shore. I quit shortly after my first 3h commute (most days were 1.5). The commute situation in the greater Boston metro is pretty awful…

[ghaff]

Part of it is that’s it’s just a big area. I live in a Metrowest exurb just a few mile drive from commuter. I’m still a 90-120 minute commute each way depending upon where the 2 stations are to where I’m going which isn’t sustainable anywhere daily IMO. But I’m actually less than 30 minute from my main office though I haven’t been in there in years.