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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When I lived in Staten Island in the ‘80’s, my commute was 5 hours to/from Manhattan. The work week at Citicorp was 37 1/2 hours.
That was 5 hours per day in commute time!
Oh my! Talking about you just being across NY Harbor from Manhattan.
How folks live there and retain their sanity beats me.
I respect their fortitude.
Then again, it is a hotbed of liberals, thereby negating a large amount of any respect due.
Another reason NOT to live there, as if I needed another one....
It’s a little hard to give a crap about New Yorkers.
Yeah, but with de Blasio, they now have the entertainment of getting mugged.
(we) Country people ALSO commute, but we get out of bed and enter the vehicle that transports and we transport
City folks get out of bed and walk to one transport to transfer to another transport and walk to work .... reverse at the end of the day>
Consider how much time is saved by home schooling (no bells, put your stuff away, line up at the door, change class, wait 'til everybody settles down ... etc.) ... Home schoolers get out of bed, start school ... end school ... many times by 12 noon
So too city workers
Holy cow! Why would anyone spend that much time getting to...wait a minute. It couldn’t be because those people make some of the highest incomes in the world, could it? Idiot. For the most part, people make rational economic decisions so they put up with it because the cost/benefit analysis, no matter at what level, comes up in favor of working there.
Amazing... So the longest avg commute time in the US is around 35 minutes each way (6 hrs week). I drive 30 minutes each way. Little did I know I have close to the highest commute time in the country. I figured LA or Atlanta might have a few hours each way.
btw, I love the 30 minute drive. I like to think.
I think a lot depends on the quality of the drive.
I used to drive 30 mins on wide open roads, it was great.
30 mins in bumper to bumper traffic would be pretty annoying.
I live in outer DC-Metro, and spend 3-3 1/2 hours in commute per day: some days have been 5 hours. . .
Wow...well I hope you enjoy your job...that number is amazing to me.
should ah lived in S Fla in the late 60’s early 70’s if you really wanted a reason to dislike them...Ob-F’en-Noxious
The Missouri Ozarks are looking better and better...
I have an hour commute that turns into a two hour drip home. It’s over the worst roads in Washington state so it’s intensely stressful.
Needless to say I’m working on finding a new gig.
Indeed. Every time I have to go into DC, and see the ridiculous traffic heading towards the city and on the Beltway, I wonder why anyone would willingly endure that every day just so they can work in DC or suburbs.
In the greater DC area, I have about 1.5 hours commute every day. I chose to live a distance away from work.
I think part of this also, is that many people live and work in a place where they were born and raised.
There are huge numbers of people who would never dream of moving away from their home town.
And if their hometown happens to be a big city, with problems such as long commute times, they just live with it. It’s just a part of their lives which they feel they have no control over.
My 20 years in Chicago included being out of the house from 6 AM to 6 PM for an 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM job, but I was living 35-40 miles out in the suburbs just so I could find affordable housing for my family. I took the commuter train, which was cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and very relaxing.
Even when I lived in the city itself and was taking the bus to the El, it took me an hour each way.
I NEVER drove to work.
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