It's not you. Commuting is bad for your health.
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- My commute is like a second job, and it might be killing me.
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Millions of Americans commute to work. It can be a stressful journey that involves cars, trains, bicycles, and even airplanes. This video breaks down the pros and cons of long commutes -- it's by someone who actually has a painfully long one: Vox's Kimberly Mas commutes to Manhattan almost every day. She drives her car to the train station, takes the train to the subway, and finally rides the subway to the Vox office. She's had this routine for a long time and she always wondered what kind of toll it's taking on her. Her reporting shows that, while commutes may just be an unavoidable part of life for many Americans, they don't have to be all bad, all the time.
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Regardless of my commute whether it be 30 minutes or an hour, I still manage to get my 10 mile biking every other day and I love commuting by myself before the fact to all my great Tunes. A very happy to commute by myself hand crank up my radio. In the end it all really boils down to the attitude that you have and perceive in life. Your only down if you allow yourself to get down. I can just having some better Tunes to your commute. Hope it takes me an extra 30 minutes just give me another 30 minutes to jam out.
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Vox Nice, I get up 5am. And have to leave my home half hour later to be at work changed and everything at 6:45am.
God you're hot
"people are *choosing* to commute more"
I don't think being pushed out of city centers due to increasing housing prices is much of a choice.
Long island is more expensive than most of nyc so thats a moot point when it comes to that especially if your commuting to nyc for work.
Some are pushed out due to polluted, noisy and overcrowded environment. If prices would fall down these problems would become even more severe.
I wish I could give you a "high 5"!
@@ligametis if businesses spread out demand could fall and so would prices. I don't understand why so many places have so many businesses on top of each other like silicon valley.
@@bl00dkillz all of long island..? I thought the only expensive part of long island was Montauk and the rest of the hamptons
You wake up at 6:15 to start work at 10. Good God, that is horrible, and yes, it's probably killing you. I rather live on a farm.
I am very confused on why this is bad cuz where I am from, I usually wake up at 5 am and go to school at 6, school starts at 7 30. I just usually sleep at 9 pm to satisfy that 8 hour recommended sleep hours
My school starts at 6:30 AM 😂, and I usually wake up at around 4:00 - 4:30
@@themradio4600 Yeah.. But I don't really sleep anyways thanks to all my homeworks and stuff.. 😂
@@themradio4600 my school is like on another neighborhood 😂
@@themradio4600 I work for US Foods.Try getting up at 2am to go drive a truck for a living!
2020: *i can fix that.*
Some Guy eating his spicy homemade bat soup: You could thank me later
That was the only merit of this pandemic. Not having to spend 3 hours of all weekdays on public transports has been a blessing. I really would appreciate if companies overall switched to this model. Like 1/2 days working from the office and 3/4 days working from home 🙏
You can't beat the satisfaction of ending a workday and hitting the streets 10 minutes later to go for a run.
Or even when you're loaded with work, at least you can push your workday a little more without having to then face a 1.5/2h commute back home on top of that
It definitely did!
@@fpereira77 you have to keep asking them to continue to work online! dooo ittt!
The comment i was looking for
Did anyone else feel like there was no conclusion to this video...? It felt like an abrupt ending that didn’t convey a strong closing point. There is definitely missing something.
I thought the way this video ended was a bit off as well and it just suddenly ended.
All vox videos are like this....
They made a strong claim in the title and then completely retreated from it.
That is called clickbait / bait&switch or just lying...
its not that she doesnt wanna move its that she actually financially cannot. living anywhere in nyc is incredibly expensive so she's forced to commute.
To be fair, Long Island is expensive, too and owning a car is expensive. And not everyone wants to live in Jersey City or Newark.
Rachel Arnold exactly so its not like she can just "move elsewhere" like thats just not the best option even though it should be
Did you see how big her house and yard were? And as far as I'm aware she lives alone. She could get a house that's a little bit smaller and cut like 20 minutes off her commute, one way.
Then move.
Rachel Arnold I’m in a suburb of Newark and I gotta say NJT has been a lot more efficient than other services recently. With the express trains it takes as little as 15 minutes to get from the station in town to penn station. A local train takes 40 minutes. The downside is though you are paying for that convenience in property taxes.
No word about high housing prices?! Yeah, right, we all choose that ... of course.....
Has more to do with zoning laws in the US, I think. Because the suburbs of cities in the US are all just endless urban sprawl, it takes ages to get from there to the city centre. Europe's medium-density residential areas have this problem to a far lesser extent.
@@rjfaber1991 Oh you gotta travel to bigger European cities, they all suffer from empty houses and sky-high prices. Do you want to live in the city? No, no, no, stay in the small town besides it and drive over two hours to your workplace.
@@hblaub Oh, I have. It's certainly true that prices do go up dramatically, but unless they are so high that you actually have to live in a town outside the city (which is certainly true for some, so you have a point), it isn't nearly as bad as in the US.
I personally actually work in a town that's only about 20% the size of the city I live in, so I have it the other way around, but of course there's more people who commute from towns to cities than from cities to towns.
Why can't they just build a multiple level parking garage...poor trees!!!
Costs tens of thousands of dollars to make a parking spot in a city just for one car
wtfwc construction would be an inconvenience for people? Idk maybe
They should build apartments next to the train stations and get rid of the parking. Parking just encourages poor development habits.
you know,muricans
I heard that cities start taxing anything past ground level heavily or something along those lines
I wonder if the disappointment over commuting goes hand in hand with the rise in remote working. Working from home might seem weird, but I do it and the number one benefit is not having to commute. That and free coffee.
Oddly enough I am in a bit of an opposite boat : I love my commute, but recruiters keep pushing companies that have 'work from home!' as big selling points or even mandatory features.
kinda hard to flip burgers or drill for oil from home
Agreed, though I get free coffee at work and have to buy my own at home. But still, 2 hours a day where I can do other stuff. I tend to work more from home, not less, just because I feel less stressed and tired. Starting my day with 1 hour of trafic (I drive 7mi to work, takes me 50min on average) is draining my energy. I wish I could take a train but no time-sensible options are available for my commute, so I drive. I understand the need to be in the office most days but I cherish those days where I'm wfh.
There are tons of disadvantages however. All communication has to be done via Skype or a chat program. You can't just quickly mention something while taking a coffee break, you don't have a few minutes of talking before a meeting. All communication has to go through an official, digital channel. That doesn't always work well to convey a feeling of being part of a team.
I work from home and I dont care much for it. I mean, it has its perks but I rather work at an office with other people. But I also hate commuting. The best of both worlds for me was when I took 8 minutes riding my bike from home to my last job, that was the dream!
0:50 The problem is literally right behind her.
Instead of a parking lot next to a train station, the town should be around the train station. You should be able to walk to it or ride a bike to it.
Sprawl is a huge problem. America's urban land usage is horrible.
Here in Washington DC, MD and VA, the region is beginning to figure this out.
Mixed use around these stations is SMART GROWTH.
Single 2 story homes where you drive everywhere or drive to train stations is a waste of land, a waste of ones time, and overall just stupid.
Make our communities more walkable will make all of us healthier.
i agree with this...i hate how us americans are so dependent on cars
pretty hard thing to fix though.
may vr we have a train called BART in my city. I’m 4 miles away. We have a dozen county buses, including our own city funded buses that go to the train station. Does anyone use em? Partially... everyone drives!
@@m3rl1on DMV is doing this (DC, Maryland, Virginia) Check out Rockville Pike in Maryland......
It starts with rezoing. And once local developers in your area realizes this is very profitable for them, then it can be done. Like I said, its happening here.
Jessen's Channel It takes money and political will, and we have neither.
Make no mistake-- building that much unnecessary travel into your daily routine isn't just killing you. It's killing the world you live in.
Exactly
Another take on this: Affordable Housing.
While I assume the vlogger in this video loves her job, she is likely not being paid well enough to live in Manhattan (I assume she works in Manhattan b/c she stated that she arrives to Penn Station). But living in Manhattan is extremely expensive, especially if you want space.
There might be an argument for a simpler lifestyle, one without all the comforts of suburban living, but we aren't there as a society yet. But when I worked in DC, it still took me ~20-30 minutes to get 2 miles to my job in the Navy Yard neighborhood on the Metro with the transfer.
We need our local governments to ensure that new housing developments have a healthy mix of affordable and market rate housing so we can all live healthy lives regardless of socioeconomic status.
Affordable housing, better walkability, more functional public transport infrastructure and less support for cars are all in the public interest. Affordable housing with designs that encourage community will also mean that the commute could be more social and thus more enjoyable and less taxing and could be used to offset the sacrifice of suburban comforts and to create a sense of place. Shared indoor spaces to offset the loss of housing space, shared green spaces to offset the loss of the ‘yard’.
Yeah this is also Vox's fault; they're not paying enough to ensure she can avoid a home nearer to where she works
Most media companies don't pay well. It's the Catch 22 of young media people. Either take a decent paying job in TV media in say, Elko, Nevada but never really able to create a national profile and limit your options OR take a shitty paying job in NYC, LA, or DC ("shitty pay" in NYC is probably upper class living in Elko, NV) but have a better chance of creating your national profile that will lead to the big bucks.
It depends.
CardsNHorns04 Yeah here in LA there's zero affordable housing and you have to move further east to get cheaper homes but means longer commute times
CardsNHorns04 I remember the days when you could be working class and live in Manhattan. Now you have to be upper middle class in order to afford the rent.
Crazy! 2 hours to get to the job?! I spend 30 minutes and I'm not happy!
Shut up, I dream about spending on public transport not more than 30 minutes.
you happiness in your head . try to activate your brain cells by reading interesting book!
dfsadsdas dasda books are overrated anyway. you can easily get a summary on youtube and spending time practicing it instead of letting the author fill your brain with his stupid life stories
@@AlexeiMotoRin Not really, reading or listening to podcasts in a busy train or bus is very different than at your sofa at home, I have tried it endless times and can assure you it is very different
I can't believe you just tried to find a silver lining on commuting. You want to read? Why not read at home? Much better. And do you really want to keep working on the bus or on a crowded subway train?? I've done it. It's not nice. Besides, what about the extra hours you're not being paid for? That dog that you played with at the end, he or she spent the day alone. We stay long hours at work and then commuting.. it's just killing you, that's all.
EXACTLY! And that guy at the end is TERRIBLE!
i cant get any reading done at home, distractions everywhere
commute reading makes the time pass by, it's great & productive
@@kn00tcn first of all you need to start and spend about 1-2 hours for two days and you READy !
Because time, some people don't HAVE the time to read or listen to music at home.
@@fbritorufino The gig economy is a lie to force young people to accept working minimum wage jobs with no guaranteed hours and no job security whilst corporations rake in record profits and CEOs enjoy hundred million dollar salaries.
I wouldn’t last a week with that kind of commute. I’d literally go hustle to do any other job.
Agreed
Now that it's 2021, I'm glad to have been blessed with no commute for more than a year. Commuting does add extra stress and I'm blessed not to have it anymore.
When I was in college my commute was an hour and a half from home to school, then another hour from school to work and another hour from work, home. You can imagine I didn't have as much time for homework as most of my classmates who lived close to campus and didn't have jobs, but I used my commutes for studying/reading/listening to assigned podcasts or even taking power naps between school and work to get through the day. When I had to stay up really late I wouldn't worry to much about it because I knew I could get an hour of sleep on the way to school... unless there was assigned reading I hadn't been able to get to.
HOWEVER, now that I graduated and got a new job my commute is only 30 minutes and I feel like a new woman.
+Karen Reynoso You are lucky that you could at least study. I live an hour away from my university or 34 miles. I spend at least 2 hours Mon-Thurs driving. My peers have a much greater advantage to attend club meetings and be social compared to me. I work, drive, study, and can't forget about the crazy long naps.
Karen Reynoso you should have dormed at University to save you time. I did and it was only a 45min drive from home lol
This is me now. My commute is almost 2 hrs but I try to read on the train. It just sucks bc whenever ppl want to hang out you can't bc if you don't catch that train/bus now, you won't be home at a safe hour.
I used to live in Newcastle, Australia and worked in Sydney. 2-hour train commute each way and there was always people travelling to work on the 4:30am train. There are so many good jobs based out of the big cities but they're too expensive to live in. Employers really need to embrace working in an active online environment so we can all live healthy lives.
i spend 2 hours day driving/commuting. Sometimes i wonder why i am wasting my life
i have a coworker that spend that much time every day, so in comparison to him my commute is nice LOL
Cycle or motorbike. That's an awful lot of your life you aren't going to get back.
i have a motorcycle, lately though its been really cold so i've been driving ;)
Mazxlol The thing that get me up in the morning is that i can use my kick scooter to zoom to my workplace from the train station .
Ya so doing things you liked is important.
Walking is a drag sometimes for me.
It's not like you were going to do anything meaningful with your life anyways.
I used to commute 3 hours every day to school/college. Although I didn't like it, I also didn't mind it because I hated my home environment anyways because of my dysfunctional family. Sometimes I would miss a train or a bus intentionally just to arrive home later when everyone was asleep, so I didn't have to talk to anybody. lol
Circe 你可以适当的运动放松调节心情
Dragoon Z Probably cost
+Dragoon, Yeah, cost was the issue. Also, my mother threatened suicide when I tried to move out.
Was the round trip 6 hrs? Any tips on how to manage school with 6 hrs long commute
Americans are super commuters. They've gotten so good at separating housing and workplace that commute distance is farther than ever.
It's also incentivized, for instance I work as a contractor for a staffing firm and get paid $140 a day of non-taxed per diem if I live farther than 50 miles from the jobsite. My pay translates to about $30 an hour but when you factor in the the time for the 65 mile commute (one way) it works out to about $20 an hour. And after a month I feel physically drained and exhausted mostly because of the commute.
The only time I can find to pick up a book and read is my commute to college
Not if ur driving like me
Yeah, I'm fortunate to have a decent public transit system here. It lets me unwind a bit
wait... Don't you read in college?
I'm a CSIS student; most of it's lectures. And reading for information isn't really the same as reading for leisure or personal interests, to be frank :/
Oh I know :P I was just joking heh
I commute an hour to school everyday. it's not easy...
Chris Choi damn, during my University time I had to commute 5 min by bike to the trainstation, then take a train that will take me another 45 min. Last but not least walk to the campus for another 15 min. Every school day.
Damn how do you put up with that lol
Lakshay Modi Because a lot of countries don't have dorms?
pksstr I didn't ask why but ok
i go to boarding school so I wake up and just have to walk down the stairs in the morning. And to get to class i have to walk for about 2-4 minutes and can come back to my bedroom in breaks and study periods :3
There are those that can't afford to simply "move closer". For example, If you live in a major city, and work in the downtown area. Moving downtown can be heck of expensive! Being closer to work means paying ALOT for living expenses. Middle income to working poor can't afford to "just move" to cut their commute. So you live away from downtown, where cost of living in cheeper. You could also have a family that needs more space than a condo size home. So, you move toward the neighborhoods that can give you that. More than likely you are heading to a suburb. There are alot of people caught up in the commute cycle. If you are not consider yourself blessed, and try not to judge others who are.
If she's spending over an hour on the LIRR at peak times, she's probably paying at least $300-$400 per month on a monthly pass. Add in $115 or so for a monthly subway pass plus the cost of parking, gas, etc... and she's probably spending at least $600 a month on commuting, so the "can't afford it" argument doesn't really make sense. In the short term if you're living with family and just getting settled in to the job, it might make sense. It also might make sense if you can work from home 2-3 days a week, which many people do. However, at least in my mind, there doesn't seem to be a legitimate reason for her to do this over the long term if the reasons listed above aren't the case.
Matt Sezer hey, you do what you have to do to get to work. Their are many people ( myself included) that pay a high cost in transportation to get back and forth on the daily basis. This does not mean you are rolling in money LOL! Trust me on that! It just means we live in areas that the cost of Transportation is high. So you end up taking that money from other places and keeping a tighter budget .Although we live in tech driven times. There are still many that must go into work and don't have the ability to work from home. So you get up and do what needs to be done. The type of work that I do does not exist in my local community so I must travel to get to. Let me tell you the travel can get to you sometimes LOL!! I think she is just saying that the travel can wear you out sometimes and if others feel the same they are not crazy.
Matt Sezer She has a dog, a large one at that. To have a happy life he needs a yard. Even an apartment with a park nearby would still be hella cramped with a dog that big.
Nowhere did I say that you're rolling in money. What I'm saying is that at least to me, the money that you're spending on commuting would be better spent on moving closer to your job. Saying you can't afford to move closer, but you can afford to spend thousands a year on commuting doesn't make any sense. You may not want to move closer even though you could afford to, which is fine, but then you have to accept the long commute times. Also, Long Island isn't cheap, so I'd understand her not being able to afford to move closer if she had to come from some area of the Bronx that isn't well served by public transit.
Matt Sezer I'm feeling you on the idea that if someone could pay x amount of dollars for commute, then they should be able to just add that to the cost of their housing and just move. But that is making a big assumption that her cost of commute would be enough to add to her getting a place, and a place that would fit her housing needs.We would have to know first what she is already paying. She could also have family obligations that keep her from moving closer. For whatever reason she might have for dealing with this. Its a familiar situation for alot of people
4:08 'Is my commute actually killing me?' Dog goes 'YYUPP!'
ValorousFogey Lol
Vehemently disagree with Mitchell Moss.
(A) Extension of the work day: last time I checked on average workers are not reimbursed for their commute and are overwhelmingly underpaid.
(B) Commuting has been viewed as source of stress, but in fact it gives people a break: Pretty language to persuade businesses to not pay workers for the extra hours they work.
(C) Having a home that is accessible transportation, is far more important than having a home which is next to your job: As long as the transportation is Public, Inexpensive, and Reliable! Everyday amenities should be within walking distance!
"Commuting time has emerged as the single strongest factor in the odds of escaping poverty. The longer an average commute in a given county, the worse the chances of low-income families there moving up the ladder.” Source: NYT Transportation Emerges as Crucial to Escaping Poverty
Do Americans not understand multilevel parking
I had to look this up. We only have that for sporting events. Lol
You begin at 10 every day? Wth I begin at 7 so I gotta get up at 5:30 every morning. Must've picked the wrong profession.
well considering her profession they probably have flexitime, perhaps with morning core hours 10-12
There's scientific proof that people work better for the entire day when they start at ~09:00-10:00. Unless the job requires earlier hours it's a worthwhile experiment in an economic sense. :)
she only get's up 45 minutes later than you though
She starts at ten, but she also wakes up at 6:15 and doesn't get home until 8 or 8:45, so there's that
I have school at 8:20 I wake up at 4:45-5 every morning
This is why i chose working for myself. My happiness and mental and emotional health is always my top priority not just for me but so I can be FULLY present for the people in my life
Don't glamorize it. You have to cover your own insurance yourself. I tried it, it has its pros and cons.
@@lepetitchat123 A lot of jobs don't offer insurance or at least not good insurance. Another reason why people choose to work multi jobs.
I was driving 300 miles round trip to my last job and spending close to 7 hours a week in the car. I don’t work there anymore.
poor dog, i hope its not alone the whole day :(
These videos are a constant reminder to enjoy my teen years before I have to deal with my job killing me, the government being corrupt, and me being able to do nothing about it
I'm 25 and starting down the barrel as we speak. Enjoy it bro.
Worst part about commuting during my college years using a bus was the bathroom. Unknowingly drink too much water waiting for the bus always caused trouble for me.
Oh wow
A scene from Spongebob summarized this perfectly
Asterbel Music which one
Penny driver?
Asterbel Music i.imgur.com/VdW0b.gif
Asterbel Music which one?
It's also an accurate representation of life after high school.
I got to a point where I hated driving to work so much I would literally have a panic attack every morning when I woke up.
As a Dutch kid, I have to cycle for one hour to school everyday. All Dutch children in middle and high school do that and it's usually two hours in total per day.
I still don't know whether I'm happy about it or not.
Adults here usually go by car as well, I think they should be going more on their bikes like they used to when they were in middle school.
Heard biking is popular there. Which city do you live in?
Man I hate commuting so much.
We know you do, Ben.
Yeah it’s really exhausting. But how about using commuting time for something useful, say, reading or listening to music?
Don’t we all? I used to walk 30 minutes to my school but I moved farther away, so now I have to ride a bus and train to school which takes 50 minutes. My parents don’t have a car yet and they tell me that there’s seven year olds commuting (which is true) so I, a 6th Grader, should do it on my own. Even though I supposedly live in the least stressful city in the world, (my mom and dad saw that on multiple articles, I don’t really know what to believe.) it’s still a bit stressing. And all that with the pressure of learning German ever since I moved here to Germany and my friends literally hate me now (for something bad I did to one of them) and it’s quite stressing. And I get anxiety quite frequently and I hope I don’t have anxiety disorder because that is even worse. Commuting is the worst.
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In holland we have to ride our bikes to school. So we have to commute since a very young age. A normal trip to school for the average middleschool/highschool student takes around 30 minutes. And for college and university its around a hour. But as I recently got into college which requires me to use the train and bus I can say it is way more relaxing to cycle. And when you're home you find yourself more relaxed then using the bus.
Myrtymine I cycle and the easier bike to work energises me but the bike home wrecks me with it’s two massive hills. I feel a need to be the fastest cyclist on the road and I really push myself too hard.
Honestly, I laughed when it said that commuting is stressful because I just download Netflix. To be honest, I can't wait to get on the train.
Robotman It depend. Try warching netflix on train while standing for hours because there is no seats available.
But wouldn't you still rather watch Netflix at home or somewhere quiet, where there isn't a train engine running?
I'm really enjoying all my favorites songs when I listen them on the bus and train more than when I listen them on my bed at home
XXD I feel you bro.
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Same
I chose the option of living closer to my workplace and walking as opposed to living outside the city and commuting. The obvious downsides are rent (I pay $950 while friends who live outside the city pay $500-600), and when we have snow days I apparently have no excuse to miss work. But I have lots of advantages... like not paying for gas or public transit, and all of my needs are within walking distance.
I'm perfectly fine with it. Although, if my landlord raises rent on me next year I'm going to have to move. I anticipate he will be raising it to $1000 and that is my limit. This place is already a rarity in this area and its only upside is its location--- bars and restaurants, laundromat, banks, and greyhound station all within 3 blocks. Grocery shopping 4-6 blocks away. To many who drive, those often sound like long walks, but honestly, they're not. If they live outside the city, a drive to the grocery store is 20 minutes. I can walk there in 10.
Where do you live? I thought the standard rent in NYC was $1500 a month. I'm probably wrong; that's a number I heard somewhere
Invalid Name. Please Try Again. - Thats in the hood lol. A nice place is like $1800- $2600.
Try to commute by train in Japan. If it's snowing, it'll take like almost 2 hours for a few miles.
Yeah, commuting by train during winter isn't the most comfortable way of going around places at all. I've learned that during my trip to Yokohama.
my job is 1 hour and 15 minutes away so 2.5 hour total ...it is killing me I can never get used to it
Work on getting another job/career or another house, nothing is more important than mental health
You chose that life you have right now. You can also choose to live your life differently.
"commuting is terrible in all these ways and it's shortening your life"
"actually commuting is good for you, forget all we said before"
I like my commute. It's a 15-25 minute drive and because I work shifts it means mostly there's not too much traffic. I enjoy driving alone because I can blast my music out in my car and sing along to it!
*Wait a minute!*
You start work at 9:50, is it just her or the whole US?
Solomon Kofi Otu Thompson just her. Most start 8:30-9:00
Nah Americans usually do 9-5pm with a 1 hour break in the middle
eligirl100 you’re ignorant, open your eyes
the standard work day is eight hours. a lot of jobs are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. but many are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (I would assume especially if factoring in morning commute times). I doubt there's anything she needs to do at nine in the morning that she can't do at ten. different strokes for different jobs
Try 6:30am - 3pm
It took the pandemic for me to realize that I actually enjoy the train portion of my commute. Can't wait for school to open up again
Same i used to spend an hour on the train to and back from uni and honestly i miss it. It was the time i used to wake up properly, i got some work done, was just chilling
"Extension of the work day" - really now? You want people to be wired 24/7 to their work. This is the worst example of how to spend your spare/lone time while commuting.
Unpayed work, it's what our greedy overlords want. Free labour for their multi million profit company and you better not be late to work good little wage slave!
Oh youtube is gold putting the local train company ad on this video XD
Yeah, commuting by train can be a good way to have some relaxed time of the day, but not driving. Driving demands concentration for a long time leading to stress, and arriving at home after a long drive is extremely exhausted. A lot of time is needed to recover after a long day at work and a long drive home.
Yes driving is more stressful but by train it takes longer to get home and you have less time to relax at home, either option is bad
That's why they call it the Long Island ;)
that's a good one :)
I don’t need to finish this video. I resigned from my last company because of the stress of commuting.
I live in Anchorage, AK. I walk for an hour in negative temperatures at 5 am to get to work. Wooooo
I commute 1.5 hours everyday from Brooklyn to Manhattan due to our screwed up MTA system but I use that time for reading and studying. Thanks MTA I love the tiny filthy seats 🤪 and walking in late to work 👍🏻
Let's hope the congestion pricing will help improve transit in NYC
Lito Lito If you take the A, the C can be faster. If you take the 4 use the B, C, D, 1, 3, or 5, depending on where you are going. If it is the D, take the B or N
YOU'RE WRONG
Girl HOW? I take the N or R in Bay Ridge- end up in midtown in 40-45 mins w/o delays
Tracy Nine I commute from Bath Beach and I take a bus to the D train
I spent one week in Japan commuting to school for almost an hour and a half with my host family’s daughter and that was enough for me to realise just how terrible that is. She was on middle school too, imagine how much time over all the school years she spent on the train oof
Is your school that far from where you lived?
@@ilcubo32 it was that far away because the parents wanted to send their child to a particular school. There were other schools close by. I was only there on exchange though, by host families kids did that commute from elementary school til high school everyday!
Your dog is inside for 14 hours a day till you come home? Poor doggy.
I agree.
That's good that you agree with yourself
Rob I agree with what you just said too.
Seth Skullsberg she should just have her dog drive her to work.
Jonathan Rouse I agree
When I moved house I changed my daily commute from 1 hour to 10 minutes each way. My quality of life has definitely improved, I am less stressed, get more sleep and I've gained an extra eight hours a week.
Covid pandemic : Don't worry,I am coming!!
Now imagine commuting in the Philippines
Wahaha
I commute in NYC.....There's no way you could image that.....
I also live in Long Island NY, i take commute to work, one thing is that taking public transportation is kinda peaceful, you can snooze or listen to music, unlike if you drive your car, you still have to put your hands on the wheel and watch the road.
RIP to those that lost their lives due to COVID but I definitely benefitted massively from being able to plan a huge career change and work remotely permanently.
Im sorry but this video had no point at all? You present a problem and then talk to some dude and suddenly you dont see it as a problem anymore? Why would i care about your thoughts on your daily commute? This video is pointless
The message is weird, I dont commute by choice but because I have to lol. I think most people would agree.
WoeWolfgirl it is a choice? Work closer to home, or move closer to work. That or keep commuting...
@@KenworthyMike living in silicon valley is expensive. Even if you have a good job you can't afford rent near your job.
Jose Zaragoza fins work elsewhere...
Funny how so much of this changed after March 2020
Employers don’t care about how long it takes one to get to work. Companies don’t even really care about the employee in general… they care about profits and shareholders and that’s it.
I don't recommend this *bullcrap* when it takes 1-2 hours to get home. I do that every damn day and I want to get a car as soon as possible, or a place closer to my school & work...
Also the amont of money I get rid of for paying the tickets is the same price with monthly fuel for the car.........
People who seek out jobs far away from their home is most likely done by choice because they don’t like to work where people will recognize them constantly, stranger recognization is a fraction of what friend recognization holds in terms of value to us, it’s also the driving factor in animal”pet” love, it’s layers of relationship and people who chose to work so far from home is avoiding-something wether you know it or subconsciously act out these behaviors.
10 am start? I need that job
@Bridgee Bridge well its 10 til 6 so it's the same hours.
Seems like all the space dedicated to cars, which spreads everything out, is why it takes so long to commute.
commute hours for college is killing me seriously...
I had a commute for 5 years 3.5 hours round trip. Took time away from my child and my physical and mental health took a toll. Took a pay cut to be closer to home but I feel much better. We shouldn’t have to live like this 👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾
I don’t have an actual job yet but I can’t imagine having to commute in traffic every day. It’s such a waste of life. I’d be depressed if I have to go through that.
I absolutely hated biking to work; it was close enough to be biking distance but far enough to not be walking distance, so it was the best option... until it rained! Not to mention showing up to work out of breath and exhausted (I lived in a hilly area too). Biking made me really want to get a car.
Work is killing us. Work should be treated as a social problem. FORWARD
Who's forcing you to work?
@@MrCmon113 Just reverse your thinking and you will have the answer. Nobody in reality needs a job, we just need to make a living. But making a living doesn't necessarly have to mean getting a job. Nobody is forcing you to work but the thing is that we should start treat working as a social problem. It is scientifically proven that working is bad for your overall health, but you have to make a living in the end of the day. If we had a social direction to provide people with a freedom dividend (basic income of 1,000 dollars, no matter what), we would be happier, heathier and able to focus our everyday attention to more meaningful activities instead of answering customer emails etc. How can we do it? Robots, A.I., Automation are some of the tools available. FORWARD
I’d rather rent a small 100 sq foot apartment near my job and have little commute.
Can 'Anywhere Door/Dokodemo Door' from Doraemon be a reality? It might help everyone.. hopefully, in the future :)
Azliana Lyana, think in portals! 😉
Monsters Inc.?
Lol maybe in like 10000 years
do landlords ever think: hmm maybe I am an ashole
Thats why i love cycling going to work. Stay fit tho
I thought this said ‘communicating’ and I was confused
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." -Ellen Goodman
o o f
I don't own a car so I have some money left over but the point stands, we are in a rat race.
Welcome to slavery.
The only other option is to just live in the woods like a hermit. I'd rather work a job than that personally.
@@coolbrotherf127no? We can also advocate for better condition??
I love my alone time when commuting tbh. I either read or listen to music. That's why I appreciate train drivers and bus drivers so much. Imagine doing that for hours non stop knowing that you have so many lives in your hands. Lets give them some appreciation guys.
issa osama I hope they get replaced by robots someday, not that I want them to get unemployed, its because its seems like a lonely, boring and stressful job. Can't imagine driving 12h per day.
Lucas Kikkawa I don't think robots are capable of making decisions to save lives. I don't think robots should replace humans in important jobs like that. Just me and my opinion tho.
I love bus and train riding too
@issa OsamaRobots already are. Have you never heard of self driving cars? If anything a bus would be even easier. We're already there buddy
@The Dead Immortal: Cool, where can I catch the next self-driving bus then? Oh, there are none? Self-driving cars don't even get a license yet? "We're already there"
The majority of people commute for jobs they could do remotely.
I literally do all my work on my computer and do not talk to anyone for most if the day, it is definitely something I can do from my couch at home
@@fashionluvr15 what is your job?
yet most bosses want you to be physically present in the office just to prove that you are a human being and not a machine
EcoDimension and some other companies outsource whole departments overseas but can fathom the possibiliy of data entry clerks and analysts doing the same jobs locally from home.
Indeed, my boyfriend's job requires him to be there just because they don't want the office to be empty.
Did she make this so Vox would let her work from home?😂
As if there's anything remotely important going on in the actual Vox offices anyway.
@@alikazerani Yeah lol most of the work is done by individual reporters and some camera people. The writing staff need to be together obviously but the reporters do not need to go to work every day.
Work sleep repeat. Work sleep repeat. Work sleep repeat.
We are Slaves. And don’t even care or notice.
But that's what the whole world does. Some even work 12 hours a day. You need workers to keep society running and give people meaning.
A boring job that you don't care about does not give you meaning. And other societies have figured out ways to work much less, be much happier, and still have a functioning society... It's America man and this work ethic we preach to poor people so rich people can live lives of leisure. And as a result, most Americans have little spending money which is why we all seem to turn a blind eye towards the sweatshops producing our electronics, clothes, and tools. Consumer culture is awful.
weekends? friends at work? lunch break? entertainment during commute?
@@tomoyohermosa Yeah, give people meaning by taking their freedom, and told them it is for greater good.
Americans aren't just "choosing" to commute farther and farther distances. We're designing for and incentivizing that choice.
Unfornutely, This is the case people all around the world who live big cities. I live in Chennai, India and this is the case here too plus it is hard to rent an apartment for yourself if you are a single woman.
@@MultiAjitha India has a similar problem. Workplaces are too far from (affordable) housing when they don't have to be. That's what Cas means by designing for and incentivizing.
@@MultiAjitha There's no stigma attached to living in joint families in India, right..? Then why not get some relatives to live with you and share the combined income you guys make?
_The Geography of Nowhere_ by James Howard Kunstler.
This is exactly why people accept offers for a lower paying job than their current one that is closer to their home. It's for the sake of mental health
yup
Exactly, I took a job that was 15% less than a competing offer that was a literal mile away from home opposed to a 25 min drive each way. Not including gas, maintenance, and increased depreciation on the car, just the time alone was worth the 15% cut.
Sure
You find excuses everywhere
Like the title of this video
Ofc it s not your fault :))
It s "never your fault"
Grow up and take responsability
I just did this. I said no to a job that paid more plus tips. But now i can walk to work in 10 min. It's just so much better. I used to travel 2 hours there and back it was miserable. Even an hour there and back is bad
Also time is money... you may be getting less money but you can work more hours since it is closer and you spend less time
This video seems to be lacking an analysis of the economics of commuting - of how living near where you work is often prohibitively expensive and how long commutes are often a result of under-paid employees. There's a whole economic class dimension to the use of public transit (especially in more rural areas!) that is entirely missed here. Commuting isn't always as much of a "choice" as some might have you believe.
Actually people is rural areas commute much much less than people in cities... I live in a small rural area, my workplace is 30 miles away, it takes me about 15 minutes to get there
+RimmyJimmy
So you drive around 120 mph???
ice_hawk10 things like this made me curious as to why she works with such a long commute
RimmyJimmy but do people even make much money in these rural areas
@@rimmyjimmy8385 Most jobs are in big cities. Not everyone can find jobs in rural areas.
I'm so glad we have such effortless public transit in the Netherlands. You can pretty much bike anywhere, and catch a train on most stations every 15 minutes 🙏 Eventhough there's a certain frustration to our public transit provides, I can't imagine what it's like in the US. Props to you for making that effort!
Well distances in Holland are tiny compared to the US. Long Island itself is 200km long. The New York City area however is a magnet for business and probably too centralised for it's own good.
@@tasmapittock5680 What is this "Holland" you're talking about?
@@rjfaber1991 You're acting like an arrogant European in the comments.. what's the deal with you 😂😂??
@@tasmapittock5680 "Theoretical distances" are not relevant. You can work in Midtown Manhattan and live in Williamsburg and still commute quicker than a person from Amsterdam. And a person from Long Island can very well work within biking distance from their home.
I wake up at 6 am to take a bus that takes 1- 1.5 hrs to get me to college. It’s awful
Hell no. I would rather live in a 200 sq ft studio cube near my workplace than live in a mansion miles away and have to commute 2 -3 hrs.
If only that were the option - I live in a subsidized suburban studio a 50 minute commute from my city-center office. I can't afford to live any closer without roommates, and even then I can only afford my current place because of the subsidized rent. And every mile further from the metro is a higher price to get to and from work every day. And I make a "normal" salary for someone my age and have a part-time job on the weekends.
200 square foot _is_ a mansion in Hong Kong
And some people have children, just saying...
@@NotAMathGuy Why? Is it cause commuting is obsolete now because of corona?
tfw you can only afford a shoebox and commuting 2hrs.
This definitely could have been more thoughtful about WHY people need to commute which generally comes down to cost of living/housing
that's true
lazy reporting gets you lazy reports
Hey, she spends five (!) hours a day commuting. Give her a break, lol.
I worked near downtown Dallas. I lived in an apartment 1/4 mile from work for 13 years. People were commuting from southern Oklahoma.
This seemed to take an odd turn. She talked about how commutes are ruining our mental health and then that guy said "it's not dead space " and now it makes it okay? That doesn't take away all the detractors but trying to put it in a different light
I took it as finding the silver lining and trying to make your mental health issues worse but giving you bit of control. I found it ironic that most of the suggestions don't work for drivers- reading a book, doing your work, etc.
Nope, I thought the same thing. Odd video essay.
i hate commuting so much. it takes nearly two hours to commute from my house to college only to arrive in classes where the prof just reads the textbook or powerpoint slides. if i miss one of the buses add 20+ more minutes to the commute. i can't even read on the bus because it makes me feel dizzy and most of the times i cannot even find a place to sit cause the buses are PACKED. most days i just look out the window listening to sad songs contemplating whether to end it all.
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I'm eating a Dorito right now
This is so relatable... It's eating my time and my mood. Every day by the time I finally get off the subway and start the day I'm already emotionally drained.
Oh I feel your pain! My commute to Uni this past year and a half has made me so depressed and unhealthy
I travel 6 hours a day to and from Uni. With the Uni day lasting from 8:30am to 7:30pm.
I am at the point where I can NOT find the motivation anymore! I'm always questioning if I'm even capable of finishing this course. I genuinely feel like I am killing myself with it all
doritos i know this is a very old comment but my college was 1.30-2 hours away and there isn’t even a schedule for mini-buses to know if it’s even coming anytime soon. Then I started to teach there so now my work is 2 hours away. It is a lot of stress but I am able to read and prepare for my lectures etc. however, if you can’t read on the bus, then download podcasts. The best way to learn while commuting for sure! I have learned about so many different topics.
You can look up most highly rated podcasts and give it a try. It will make your commute so much better.
My mental health dramatically improved when my commute changed from a 30 minutes to an hour on the freeway, to 10 minutes in my neighborhood.
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I am literally trying to join you
Nice
Who wishes their city had a bullet train? ✋
+John Johnson.
Classic socialist troll. Go leave in Venezuela if you love communism so much.
I would love that! Unfortunately, most of the US train tracks are owned by the large train cargo companies. They are older and geared towards freight which doesn’t care how rough the ride is. So in order to put in high speed rail (approx. 200 mph) most of the rail would have to be new. That is extremely expensive. Most American politicians think in election cycles, not 30 to 50 years out. I lived in Europe for several years and I think if you got most Americans on to the Eurostar or TGV they would be sold. I still hope that we get it sooner than later.
airline industry would not be happy thus no bullet train
Nah we filipinos indubai have it already
Who wishes their country had a bullet train? Australia still don't have one
Commuting doesn't give us a break. Going to point A to B is sometimes more stressful than working.
Way more stressful than working, for me, when working I fell productive but during the commute I feel that my life is being wasted away
It depends on your commute and how you see it. Personally I love metro I love commuting on it and I even specifically find activities that force me to take it.
The build up in this video is really great but the conclusion feels rushed and incomplete.
They had to get home!
I took an 8% salary cut for a job that's MUCH closer and much more full-filling. I cannot recommend it enough! Yes, I have to be mindful with spending (I tutor 2 hours a week for extra cash), but I'm much happier! 😊
Good for you
Money isn’t everything
I took a 40% pay cut for a job that was 5 min away, compared to my previous that was 1hour away. Best decision ever.
Much more full-filling is the operative words. No brainer.
@@ronnie4661 No, but NOT having money is. It costs money to eat and it costs money to feed other people.
"Why do so many of us do it?" -- Suburban sprawl. Bad urbanism.
THANK YOU I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD SAY IT
Why do I commute 1 hour 20 mins? ‘Cause I can’t afford to live in SF and that’s the only place with decent paying jobs where I am 😂 I love how they make it sound like it’s a lifestyle choice. I’m pretty sure nobody would CHOOSE to commute if they didn’t have to.
SadSynth
This was the most informative and intelligent post that I've read so far. I agree.
I am agreed that one may have no choice, although would you swap your detached house in the suburbs for a tiny apartment in SF?
It's not a decent paying job if it doesn't let you afford rent on a place close to work.
And a lot of it is because of shitty urban planning with American cities. They were planned around the car because when the car was new and fresh there wasn't enough traffic to be pulling your brains out. Only middle class and upper class working men had cars to commute. Add on a lower population overall and there were way less cars on the road so it didn't seem to horrible to design cities around cars. In say German cities you can find affordable-ish housing within the same urban zone and never need a car. Public transport to work, you walk to the grocery store because everything is a cornerstore just down the block, not a Walmart every five miles, and you take the train if you have to go to a different city. A much better commute and much more efficient use of urban space than megahighways and endless rows of suburban housing.
I just made the move from the Bay Area to the Big Island of Hawaii where its actually a little cheaper to live. Tropical paradise vs. Urban Hellscape and you pay less for property?
The commute from the south bay into Mountain View was eroding my soul. Being in car jail for 3-4 hours 5 days a week is maddening.
I wonder if working from home should be an option? 2.5 hour commute one way equals 5 in total. That’s close to an entire work day and seems really freaking sad!
abluemug Working from home is a nice idea but for many jobs it's just not a possibility for one reason or another.
abluemug Not likely there will be lots of jobs out there where u can work from home. The company wants to have control over their employees
A lot of people would find themselves pretty socially isolated if they didn’t get to work with others which would also be bad for their health.
Working from home is often countered with "that's just not possible for this job". If you are a contractor building houses or a cashier at a store, fair enough.
But in many cases, you can consolidate office-activities to one or more days, and provide the tools to employers to do the rest from home. Even a teacher spends 20-40% of their time not in front of a class, developing new lessons and correcting tests...
I think most people would be much healthier if they could split the week and spend for example the Wednesday away from the office.
If you get loads of people together and create a cooperative you're life will be a lot easier