Why commuters are going the extra mile for their daily grind

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article309687.ece

Attempting to juggle the good life with city-based jobs is adding hours to the daily grind for almost a million commuters, figures show.

Not content with working increasingly lengthy hours, tens of thousands of employees now commute more than 100 km a day, a rise of a third in their numbers in the past decade.

The average commuter in England and Wales, meanwhile, takes an hour a day to make a 24.2km (15 mile) round trip to their job, the equivalent of about 10.5 days a year.

The biggest jump was in those who venture more than 50km from home to work. It had shot up a third, from 2.7 per cent of employees in 1991 to 3.5 per cent in 2001; 825,000 are now making that daily trek.

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1. An odd reversal of the industrial revolution that

150 years after people massed to the cities leaving the countryside for
the industrial revolution, the trend is in reverse, with commuting allowing
people the countryside life AND the city life as well. Provided the
job premium pays for the commute and living costs, then its worth it.

They did not account for people on weekly commutes, who travel to
other countrys during the week and fly home on weekend... the commutes
will be as long as economics allow... That everyone in poland can return
home for the weekend, and everyone in france can too. The old notion of
living in simply 1 place (villiage) or whatnot is decieved, and we are
a 2 place dyslexia. One is our city-job personality, life, commute,
apartments, education, profession and relationships, and the other is
our private country moments with the kids, the animals and the garden.

For some 2 lives balance each other. For others, its just exhastion
the prospect of forever longer commutes to further and further destinations,
until, to keep our homes and families, we'll all have to work in
indonesia and live in scotland.