[saraid216]

> I live in Tokyo, which has an amazing public transportation network.

> Including walking to/from stations and bus stops, taking the bus/train costs me around 80 minutes of my day each way

That's not actually how we define "amazing public transportation network". My experience of public transit in Seattle is "about 5 minutes away from a bus stop, anywhere, and about 30 minutes to anywhere I care to go in the city, and maybe an hour if I go across the lake to Bellevue or Redmond".

The fact that it takes you longer for traveling within the city than it does for me to change cities suggests to me that Tokyo's public transit is either ridiculously bad or you have an extremely unusual case.

[atgm]

> That's not actually how we define "amazing public transportation network".

It's pretty comparatively amazing to me. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania in a town with no buses or taxis. The closest train/bus station was about 50 minutes away by car.

My apartment has a bus stop right outside its door, but I have to travel the entire bus line to get to where I want to go, and that's 15 minutes from work.

There's a train station five minutes from work and two others within ten minutes from work, but none of them go directly to the station closest to my apartment.