Posted on 03/18/2015 7:48:05 AM PDT by C19fan
Between commuting time and work hours, New York City residents have the longest work weeks among the country's 30 biggest cities, city Comptroller Scott Stringer said in a report released Tuesday. The report said a typical week for a full-time New York worker adds up to more than 49 hours, including an average of more than six hours of commuting time. That was more than four hours longer than in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the average work week was about 44 1/2 hours. Commuting time made up just under 3 1/2 hours of that. The report was based on data from the U.S. Census from 1990 and 2000 and the 2013 American Community Survey.
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We feel likewise to those with your attitudes in Oklahoma.
Check out the salaries being drawn at any of the “Beltway bandits” I go to a conference every year in D.C. and I am shocked at the excess. I’ll consider a Beltway job fir a price.
It’s a major symptom of what is wrong with our system these days.
Every major corporation has a name on building lining the D.C. beltway. Follow the money.
The deal is, we aren’t whining, you see?
I work in Houston and I spend a minimum of seven and a half hours in traffic going to and from work. But that is coming to an end within two years. Full retirement!!!
I read about the folks living way out in WV to afford a home and the nightmare commutes they endure. God bless them.
I wasn’t whining, either. You see?
They don't. Liberalism is a form of insanity, and NYC is one of the worst cesspools of liberalism in the country.
Sounds like my dad when I was younger and we lived in Joliet.
There is and there isn’t. While New York is very socially liberal, anything that gets in the way of making large sums of money tends to get voted down.
City residents or those of Greater New York? A LOT of people communte in from teh suburbs on Metro North, the Long Island Railroad, or NJT.
That NYC commute, along with the insane taxes and cost of living is why I left. I lived in the DC area back in the early 90’s and the commute was a dream compared to NY and you could afford an apartment. Now, the commute has followed me and a 35 minute cruise has turned into two hour torture session.
Good thing the democrats have made it their business to impede road construction and expansion in favor of an overly expensive, uncomfortable, and inconvenient public transportation system that is inadequate and falling apart.
But you have to admit you meet people you otherwise wouldn't.
You mean, the farter? Or the guy that smells like a bag of rotting onions, or a group of “special needs” adults that spit and crap themselves, or the yutes that wait for the doors to close so they can start their “fundraising” shakedown or the woman that used to pick her nose and rub it on the seat. One guy vomited on a metro car during a snow emergency and since the service was erratic , nobody wanted to get off. The car smelled like burning brakes, vomit and dirty, old moldy wet carpet. The least time I rode the LIRR, a couple of drunks were walking around shaking everyone’s hands and an Asian guy was staring at my girlfriend for an hour.
Oh, there are wilder commutes than that.
FAA’s “Washington Center” Air Traffic Control facility is located in Leesburg, Virginia, about a 20-minute drive (with no traffic) from Dulles Airport.
There is a sizeable contingent that works there, that lives in York, PENNSYLVANIA. They board a daily charter bus at 3:45 AM, and are at their control boards by 6AM. . . .
I’m one of those “bandits”. We’re NOTHING, compared to the Politicals, the Non-Profits, and the International Bankers.
I make good coin, but around here, Middle-class is a family income in the $80-100K range.
Talking to the World Bank a few years back, they were talking mid-six figures for the same basic job. Needless to say, they had dozens of qualified candidates. And the guy who got the job ? Relative of a manager at the Bank. . .
There is the gov’t flying workers from LV to Area 51 or the Tonopah Test Range.
We live south in Stafford County (been here since Feb 1993). My wife commutes to Ft Meade , MD four days per week and it is just under two hours each way.
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