TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

Davriellelouna@lemmy.world · edit-2 2 个月前

TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

MelonYellow@lemmy.ca · 2 个月前

Or LA

Zedd @lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 个月前

Or San Francisco. My longest commute was 3.5 hours each way. Average over 15 years there was 90 minutes.

rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 2 个月前

holyshitwhatthefuck?

The longest days are like tacking on a whole 'nother day.

Zedd @lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 个月前

Yeah, it sucked, but the pay was great, and I really wanted to work for the company.

rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 2 个月前

I was thinking about it and I know of some electricians who happily commute three hours no traffic to certain jobsites to work 5 10’s and pocket the per diem

Magister@lemmy.world · 2 个月前

Same in Montréal, it’s a fucking island and everyone lives outside of it, there’s not so many bridges so it’s 1h each way or more.

TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

Marchetti's constant - Wikipedia