[barsonme]

That’s insane. 13 hours of work + commute. After 7 hours of sleep you only have 4 hours left in your day for literally everything else.

[commandar]

The push for the 8 hour work day over a century ago was often accompanied with slogans to the effect of "8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours for what we will."

5 hours round trip commuting a day is giving up over half of your prerogative time to simply shuffling from one place to another.

The Bay Area is lucrative monetarily and all, but there's just no world where that's worth it for me.

[red-iron-pine]

A lot of people had to literally fight and die for that 8 hour day too.

[spacemadness]

I’ve worked in tech in the Bay for over a decade and met a handful of people with that insane of a commute. It’s not normal.

[jjulius]

>13 hours of work...

... what?

[shrikant]

13 hours of (work + commute) -- that's 5 hours of commute + 8 hours of work.