Using Census Bureau data for average daily round-trip commute times for almost 1,000 cities, the good folks over at Educated Driver have created a highly depressing interactive map.
Highlights:
The average American worker spends 52.2 minutes a day commuting to and from work, or 4.35 hours a week.
This translates to an average of 408 days of one's life commuting - and more in large cities
While residents of Jersey City spend 580 days of their lives commuting, those working in North
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I learned conversational Spanish over the course of a year while commuting an hour each way in DC. Now I can order from a Mexican menu and ask where the bathroom is in Spanish. Yeah, it was all wasted time.
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