XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Leszek Karlik   
    wrote:   
   > 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)   
      
   I have no idea if there is a train service (he apparently lives in   
   South Wales for the country life) or even a small air field. Maybe he   
   should just buy a helicopter.  ;-)   
      
      
      
   > As someone who's been working from home for more than 15   
   > years I find all this "commute" stuff a weird form of masochism.   
      
   Yep. I work for myself from home and do also have to visit clients',   
   but I always make the appointments to be 10:00am or later to avoid the   
   silly "rush hour".   
      
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