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@linus One thing that makes me wonder is: are there really places in the world where typical work commute is 90 minutes? I live in a city of two million people and my worst ever was 75 minutes. 40 minutes is what I'd call typical.
@Brendanjones @jzillw @linus I guess you have to double it if you intend to go home. 
@Brendanjones @jzillw @linus Mine was 90 minutes each way in Los Angeles.
My life changed when that office closed!
@Jfrites @jzillw @linus Wowsers, alright. I was doing 50 mins - 1hr each way last year from Utrecht to Amsterdam, but it was bike > train > bike. It’s way more relaxed than driving an hour. Also, my company didn’t care when I came in so I only did it as much as I wanted, which was generally 3 days a week because I like seeing other humans and I liked my colleagues. I totally get why you want wfh in place of 90 min commutes, 5 days a week.
@Brendanjones @Jfrites @linus Confession: I live in Warsaw, but I work in Hamburg. Eight hours by train (with a very convenient transfer in Berlin). :-) Remote work is a bit of a miracle. Still, I do miss my team, they're nice.
@Brendanjones @jzillw @linus I suspect North America is where the really bad commutes are. Partially due to distances and partially due to poor urban planning leading to congestion.
I don't hear a lot about EU commuting but Boston, Toronto, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Washington DC, etc. I've heard horror stories
@jzillw @linus Greater Toronto Area, primarily due to congestion.
105 minutes by train from my home city to downtown Toronto or 90 - 180 minutes by car.
Train is slow due to being a bit indirect and having a top speed of only 150km/h. Car commute is bad due to ALL the traffic to/from/through Toronto being routed through a single highway.
@beeoproblem @linus Sounds a lot like some people who work here in Warsaw but live in Łódź (a city of some 650k people, about 100km from here). Most likely similar commute times. I guess I'm lucky to be a Warsaw native, never had to live further than a 10 minutes' walk from a metro station.
@jzillw @linus 45 min in the morning, 45 min in the evening was my regular commute in the Seattle area, much worse when there was a collision. And that was 14 years ago before it got bad. I wasn't working in an office when it got bad, but I did spent 45 minutes just getting to the freeway from Mercer (near Amazon HQ) anytime I went to that part of town on a weekday. There stopped being a rush "hour" and it was more like all day. (I moved away from the area in large part due to that.)