For me, what counts is the amount of free time I have left in a day between getting home and going to bed. A long commute really eats into that time. But when the commute time is quite short, it becomes much a much smaller proportion of my working day, and below a certain point, it’s insignificant next to the hours I am working anyway.
You might not find that shaving 10 minutes off your 30 minute commute makes enough difference to pay more for it.
One of the best ways to cut out commute time is make an arrangement to work from home a few days a month, if your job allows for it.
More relevant is that if I want to go out, meet with friends, go to Less Wrong meetups, etc, on a weekday, I won’t get home till rather late. I’d only be shaving 10 minutes off a “regular” commute, but I could get getting home half an hour earlier from certain things I attend regularly.
For me, what counts is the amount of free time I have left in a day between getting home and going to bed. A long commute really eats into that time. But when the commute time is quite short, it becomes much a much smaller proportion of my working day, and below a certain point, it’s insignificant next to the hours I am working anyway.
You might not find that shaving 10 minutes off your 30 minute commute makes enough difference to pay more for it.
One of the best ways to cut out commute time is make an arrangement to work from home a few days a month, if your job allows for it.
More relevant is that if I want to go out, meet with friends, go to Less Wrong meetups, etc, on a weekday, I won’t get home till rather late. I’d only be shaving 10 minutes off a “regular” commute, but I could get getting home half an hour earlier from certain things I attend regularly.