[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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