[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] PLUG meeting

Russ Johnson russj at dimstar.net
Sat Dec 7 00:06:06 UTC 2002


Jeme A Brelin wrote:

>Why do you live so far from work?  Would you have moved out there or taken
>the job (whichever came second) if you DIDN'T have the option of using a
>single-user private automobile for the commute?
>
My original reason for living on the west side was because the schools 
in Beaverton and Hillsboro had better reputations than the schools in 
Portland. My kids are still in school. It's less of a point, since my 
wife and I seperated about a year ago. At that time, I moved in close to 
where she was living, in hopes of reconciling. That didn't happen, and 
there's no hope now. I'm actually concidering moving into Portland 
proper, sometime this coming year. Depends on a number of factors.

I got the job and then moved to Portland. In fact, I commuted from 
Eugene for 2 weeks before finding the townhouse we eventually moved 
into. Two hours in a car from Eugene, and then nearly an hour from the 
Tualatin P&R to downtown. 6 hours a day, commuting. 

>>I don't think nearly a doubling of my travel time as "very little
>>longer than driving".
>>    
>>
>
>That's a matter of perspective, really.  It's 21 minutes.  You can round
>up by more than fifty percent and call it "double" and that sounds like
>more than "very little", but you can also figure that it takes about 21
>minutes to make and eat breakfast or peruse a couple sections of the daily
>paper, it really is "very little" time.
>
That explains why I go without breakfast so much... If I could drive to 
work, I'd have time to eat breakfast...

Russ





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