TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.
Marchetti's constant - Wikipedia
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Marchetti intended the constant to be 1 hour round trip, so a half-hour commute one-way. It's an important distinction, since here in Atlanta the exurban commuter is clocking in at 1.5 hours or more into the city, well outside of what is considered tolerable. Multiply that by a million and you get some irritated people.
Is housing that expensive in Atlanta?
Its traffic is notoriously bad, so you don't have to live far away to deal with a long commute.
That’s disgusting, and I now feel bad for Atlanta.
also they're surrounded by fuckin repedoclicans
Oh don't feel bad for us. It's also hotter than hell with 115% humidity every day for 7-9 months!
23 miles door to door for me. Can take as little as a half hour (zero traffic)... Or as much as an hour 20. And good luck predicting exactly how bad it will be at any given day/time!
that was my experience when I lived in Minneapolis. when there was zero traffic and in the summer, you could get from any place in town to any other place in between 15-20 minutes. snarled traffic was rare because there were so many additional terrestrial roads to take the burnt.
Contrast that with living in Philly, and we have a highway (676) that is so jammed all the time that the exits are measured on signage in fractions.
We have a lot of sprawl here and the reasons are many. Just like Dallas and LA, we have a ton of road infrastructure and zoning laws that eat up a lot of land. We also don't have any natural barriers, like an ocean or a mountain range, to limit our expansion. Just to keep building and add another lane. Thanks for asking.
the funny thing is, every city is always just one more lane away from solving their traffic problems.
Yeah, the metro area (albeit unofficially) effectively takes up most of the eastern and northeastern sections of the state. It is a truly huge suburban sprawl.
Also in the greater Atlanta and can confirm. My job thankfully has me work from home as much as I can (I also travel a lot, which requires getting a vehicle from the office). But it's still a nightmare every time I do have to go in.
I still don't think that this could be called a constant when you've got folks like myself who live in a major city, 8 miles away from our workplaces, and still see 2 hour total commutes per day.
We should strip the inheritance if anyone who is related to folks who demolished the streetcar system.
You must be biking really slowly.
that's all by bus, really. I live at the top of a hill that used to be used as a qualifier in a professional bicycling circuit. I tried getting up it on pedal power, it's just too much.
I got an eBike recently though, it really does make that hill a breeze.