XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: billnews2@cox.net   
      
   On 1/31/2014 9:56 PM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   > On 1/31/2014 5:21 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy   wrote:   
   >>> Your Name  wrote in   
   >>> news:010220141021575273%YourName@YourISP.com:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I can't find the original message, but somewhere along the long   
   >>>> winding route of the sci-fi predicting the future topics it   
   >>>> detoured onto methods of travel and people today often having   
   >>>> longer work commutes.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In yesterday's local newspaper there was an article about a man   
   >>>> in the UK who travels for three hours to work (and three hours   
   >>>> to get home again) every weekday by car. He travels about   
   >>>> 160,000km / 99,419 miles every year and has to get up at 3:30am   
   >>>> to travel from South Wales to almost London. It costs him about   
   >>>> £15,000  / US$24,660 per year, which includes and £1,600 in toll   
   >>>> fees and £900 per month for diesel fuel, plus the usual car   
   >>>> licensing, etc.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> By horse, that commute would have taken days, and on foot it   
   >>>> would have taken weeks if not months.   
   >>>   
   >>> I would note that this is not an unusual arrangement here in southern   
   >>> California. I would guess there are thousands, perhaps tens of   
   >>> thousands, with comprable situations. Iti sn't even noteworthy.   
   >>   
   >> My husband used to work with a guy who commuted from Fresno to   
   >> San Jose; a rough look at Google Maps tells me it was about a   
   >> hundred and fifty miles each way.  I forget how long it took him.   
   >>   
   >> Nowadays my daughter and son-in-law commute across the Bay from   
   >> Vallejo to San Francisco; takes an hour and a half in each   
   >> direction.   
   >>   
   > Another version of this is the people who live near Stockton and   
   > Sacramento "commuting" to San Francisco.  They stay in small apartments   
   > in SF Monday night thru Thursday night, driving back home Friday evening   
   > for the weekend before heading back to work Monday morning.   
   >   
   I recall a story from something like 20 years ago, give or take   
   a decade.  Somebody lived on the West Coast and worked on the East   
   Coast.  He flew East Monday morning and West Friday evening.   
      
   Bill   
      
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