TIL there is a law called Marchetti’s Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.
Commutes of 2 hours are unfortunately common in the DC Metro area. It’s too expensive to live near the good jobs…
No, the jobs don’t pay enough for the land value and rent.
The way I see it, if you paid everyone who works in the very expensive and concentrated downtown area more the land value and rent would go up with it because it is caused by a housing supply issue. The reason for a tiny one bedroom apartment to cost over a million dollars isn’t cost of construction, it is scarcity and people who control the housing supply will charge whatever people are willing and capable of paying for it.
Either find a way to densify habitation more to make it more affordable or relocate your activities somewhere less saturated. Sadly businesses seem to love concentrating their offices in expensive and difficult to commute to areas.
uhhhh well that is objectively not true
I rather enjoyed my 1 hour train ride to school in college. Listened to more music than I ever had before in my life
maybe just most Italians reject long commutes?
The title is a lie. The constant is an average, not a minimum. The point being that that average stays around 1 hour even if the transportation methods become better and faster. Meaning that people rather broaden their travel radius than shorten their travel time if travel means become better.
