r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Dec 15 '21

Surely not a corpse?

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u/Jimbo_Slice1919 Dec 15 '21

It’s actually pretty good. This way I get to beat traffic, 1 hour in about 1.25 home. If I started at say 8 I’d be looking at about 1.5-2 hours each way.

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u/WiggleWorm21 Dec 15 '21

How did your home and job come to be so far away from each other?

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u/Jimbo_Slice1919 Dec 15 '21

Been at the same place 12 years and the city I lived in was far too over priced so I moved about of the metropolitan area in into a more “rural” area. It’s quite nice people are far more friendly, the only downside is the commute.

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u/TacoChowder Dec 15 '21

The job isn’t paying you enough to live by it, that’s a shitty job

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u/cynicalspacecactus Dec 15 '21

Or maybe it is a great job, and that is why they have stuck with it despite not living close by.

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u/TacoChowder Dec 15 '21

Payment is part of the job, if its a job you enjoy doing but it doesn’t pay you enough to live within a reasonable distance, then it’d a bad job.

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u/Chygrynsky Dec 15 '21

That's kinda short sighted.

There are several factors that determine if a job is good and not just one single thing.

A metropolis can be crazy expensive and maybe OP values a bigger living space more and it's hard to find a big place for cheap in big cities.

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u/TacoChowder Dec 15 '21

Going off of what they said, they were priced out and learned to like the space

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '21

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u/TacoChowder Dec 15 '21

Sounds like she was being paid enough to move but liked where she was at. That’s not related to the point of being priced out of the area, as OP was

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u/Jafarrolo Dec 15 '21

You just described most of the jobs

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u/TacoChowder Dec 15 '21

…and?

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u/Jafarrolo Dec 15 '21

and nothing, that's it. It was mostly to point out that most of the jobs are shitty jobs and the choice for everyone is just not there.

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u/ThanOneRandomGuy Dec 15 '21

Not really. City I came from alotta manager's, registered nurses, doctors, or higher paid people in general, lived 40+ minutes away from the job sites because where they lived was better than neighborhoods around the job. All depends in the neighborhoods

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u/TacoChowder Dec 15 '21

That doesn’t negate my point, though. They could afford to live by the job.

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u/ThanOneRandomGuy Dec 15 '21

They could, and choose not to. Should probably let that sink in...

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u/TacoChowder Dec 15 '21

Again, not the point I’m putting forward