And nine minutes to South Bend (best ever). Slightly over 210 miles. So is this the equivalent of commuting 42 miles each way, 5 days a week?
That may explain my new suits and blood pressure meds...
In other words, a long commute is definitely bad for your blood pressure but it's positively disastrous if it ends up eating into your physical activity time. So a longish walk or bike ride to work probably isn't that bad, but a long drive is disastrous. I really firmly believe that the existence of persistent regular traffic jams is just about the most underrated problem in American public policy, especially because it's a problem we could almost certainly solve relatively easily with a mix of congestion pricing, demand-responsive pricing of street parking, and more bus service. [More]I can assume I'll drop 20# and 20 points on the diastolic when I retire, right?
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56John you've been in the tractor seat too long. A 42 mile commute EACH way is a total of 84 mile a day and 420 mile a week. From experience I would say you would loose 2 hours out of each day with that commute; not something I want to do although I do travel 30 mile each way today and loose about 1 1/2 hours daily.
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