TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

destructdisc@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

destructdisc@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

I’m assuming you weren’t too happy about having to waste nearly four hours of your day in commuting though, which is the point of the article. People are satisfied with a commute of up to 30min each way, any longer and it starts to annoy them

rauls5@lemmy.zip · 2 days ago

I tolerated it until they fired my boss and replaced him with a cunt

TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.

Marchetti's constant - Wikipedia