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Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay
I understand your point just fine, I just don't think it's a very good argument. 30 minutes is hardly a monster commute. Many people move to outlying cities all for pretty much the same reason, getting away from this place. I'm willing to bet most of them are more than happy with a longer commute to live outside Calgary.
If you work in the downtown core, that would be a bit tough, I'll give you that but many people work outside of the core along the edges of the city. I live in Braeside and work near Chinook, moving to Okotoks would add maybe a half hour to my coummute but that really wouldn't bother me in the least. I'd be happy to in fact.
To each their own.
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If you're talking an "extra" 30 minutes - personally, I would rather light my own hair on fire and beat it out with a shovel.
But I understand what you are saying and that it is certainly a personal choice.
Mathematically, each extra 10 minutes works out to roughly 2 weeks of holidays per year. So for 6 weeks of holidays each year, you have to decide what you want more.
That is also assuming that the extra 30 minutes is truly a reasonable year-round estimate of the additional commute time. I'm amused how people in general tend to vastly underestimate the time interval and so very few overestimate it.