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   Leszek Karlik to Your Name   
   Re: Commute times (was one of the sci-fi   
   31 Jan 14 23:26:54   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: leszek.karlik@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:21:57 +0100, Your Name  wrote:   
      
   [...]   
   > By horse, that commute would have taken days, and on foot it would have   
   > taken weeks if not months.   
      
   Ciudad Real, a city 200 km south to Madrid became something of   
   long-distance suburbs of Madrid, because of the AVE rapid train,   
   since it makes the commute take less than an hour by train.   
   (Of course, you have to get to the train station and then   
    from the train station to work/home, so it's probably a longer   
   one, but not three hours, which seems somewhat excessive)   
      
   As someone who's been working from home for more than 15   
   years I find all this "commute" stuff a weird form of masochism.   
      
   --   
   Leszek 'Leslie' Karlik   
   http://leslie.hell.pl/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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