Different ages and different places have different perceptions of distance. As far as I know, half an hour's subway is a long distance. Just like I am now walking from home to work, it is also a half-hour subway, plus walking, which takes nearly 50 minutes. It's the limit.
Some time ago, I turned down a job-hopping opportunity for promotion and salary increase. Because it's too far to work. I calculated that 24 hours a day, one eighth of the time is on the road. Not cost-effective.
Time is precious. Not just the economic benefits it can produce. Three hours. Why can't I use it? You can read magazines, catch movies, and accompany your baby to the playground. Why should I spend it on the road?
Indeed, people are always on the road. But the road is different from the road, so this road can't take the baby away. This is my bottom line.
When I was a child in my hometown, my father went to work in the county by bike. I am eight miles away from the county seat. Now, what a short distance, enough to go home for lunch and sleep. But in the eighties and nineties, everyone in the village felt very far away, and everyone who went to work in the county took meals. Unified white-gray aluminum lunch box pancakes and scrambled eggs. When farming is busy, my parents go to the fields to collect wheat and water the fields. The land is less than two miles away from home, but in order to save time, they often don't come back at noon, and they bring food or send it by their families. If the conditions are good, buy sausages on fire, and families with poor conditions make pancakes and salted eggs.
When I first started working, I lived in the front and back buildings of dormitories, dormitories and offices. Go downstairs for two steps every day and then go upstairs to the office. I especially envy my colleagues who live far away, even being late because of traffic jams. In my eyes, the scenery on the road is particularly beautiful.
Later, I changed my job and rented a house in the suburbs, and my unit was in the urban area. Go out at six in the morning and get home at seven or eight in the evening. Anyway, it doesn't matter if you go in and out alone. It doesn't matter if you get married and get pregnant It was not until the baby was born that I really felt that commuting time must be less. Money should be spent on the blade, and time should also be spent on the blade. We should work hard to make money, keep learning to charge, and squeeze out all our spare time to accompany our baby. Where can we spend extra time on the road?
I thought about moving, but my salary is far from the city house price. I tried to change my job, but good opportunities were hard to get. So the only thing that can be squeezed is another 50 minutes of commuting time. Time is like water in a sponge. As long as you squeeze, there is always some.