XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <52ec7080$0$52823$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,   
   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.   
      
   And Hal did something like that once.  He was working for a   
   contract programming agency (located in San Ramon) that had him   
   commuting from Albany to places like Sacramento and San Jose.   
   But he got one contract that had him working in *Los Angeles.*   
   At least the agency was able to make the client pay for the   
   apartment he and another programmer lived in during the week, and   
   their airfare to and from.  They came home for the weekends.   
      
   --   
   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
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