20% longer commute in Rural America? I would really like to see those number and if they are only counting the time for driving to work.
I believe it's possible, but my experience growing up in a very remote rural area and now living in a large town is different.
My hometown was 2x2 miles and the county didn't take but 15 minutes to cross by car. The closest economic center was 30 minutes away.
Here, I had a job with a one-hour-each-way commute! The job I held for decades was still 15-20 minutes away! It takes me 20 minutes to pick up bread from the neighborhood grocery store, and it's less than 3 miles away!
If you work in the city and live in the suburbs, chances are you drive about 30-40 minutes through traffic, no matter the distance. When I leave my house I have zero traffic for 15-20mi. That increase my commute time by 20%. If you work in or near the city, you can drive 5-10mi outside of the beltway and be in corn fields. The difference between those two communities is night and day.. and it's not far. Living on .25acres in a cramped neighborhood, which costs twice as much as a similar sized house on 5acres in the country... and with the probability of SHTF? That makes zero sense to me.
20% longer commute in Rural America? I would really like to see those number and if they are only counting the time for driving to work.
I believe it's possible, but my experience growing up in a very remote rural area and now living in a large town is different.
My hometown was 2x2 miles and the county didn't take but 15 minutes to cross by car. The closest economic center was 30 minutes away.
Here, I had a job with a one-hour-each-way commute! The job I held for decades was still 15-20 minutes away! It takes me 20 minutes to pick up bread from the neighborhood grocery store, and it's less than 3 miles away!
If you work in the city and live in the suburbs, chances are you drive about 30-40 minutes through traffic, no matter the distance. When I leave my house I have zero traffic for 15-20mi. That increase my commute time by 20%. If you work in or near the city, you can drive 5-10mi outside of the beltway and be in corn fields. The difference between those two communities is night and day.. and it's not far. Living on .25acres in a cramped neighborhood, which costs twice as much as a similar sized house on 5acres in the country... and with the probability of SHTF? That makes zero sense to me.