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by majormajor 575 days ago
Some of the comments in here are all in on "I'm going to take half the money to work remote and not have a commute" but were apparently not on board with "I'm going to spend more of that double-salary to live close" which is a contradiction I find interesting.

(Obviously not everyone could choose to live closer without driving up the prices even more in the short-term, but the value of money-vs-commute compared to money-vs-remote doesn't seem directly comparable to many people.)
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taeric 575 days ago
Agreed on that odd trade-off. I'm assuming an implicit love of extra space? Definitely not really rationally compared.

Even odder are the insistence on public transit or similar. I share the preference, but if time is valuable, a personal car or small car pool would almost certainly cut time.

Again, I used to bike about 3 hours a day. I can't really blame that on the job, though.

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