Well, I don't know anyone from any kind of city who'd be willing to do a one-hour commute each way, unless the job paid over $100,000 or something.
My brother and I both travel 30 min. each way for our job and I only make $12.15 per hour while he only makes $9.00 per hour. These are both part time jobs. I am also in the Army Reserve and at my old home it took me 45min. (each way) to drive to the military base. Many of my fellow reservist drive 1-2 hours (each way) to go to the monthly drills. Before my dad retired he drove 50min (each way) to downtown Memphis (even though his house was 8min from Memphis it still took 50min to get to his place of employment) to work for the IRS and he only made $45,000 per year. My guess is that the travel in Philly and Boston is worse than Memphis. I have never left their airports. However, if Boston is willing to throw millions down the drain on the 'big dig' so that Boston has more roads it must have a serious traffic problem. Philadelphia is one of the largest cities in the country and I know that other large cities like NYC, LA, Atlanta, and Miami have serious traffic problems.
"P048. TRAVEL TIME TO WORK FOR WORKERS 16 YEARS AND OVER - Universe: WORKERS 16 YEARS AND OVER
United States
Estimate Lower Bound Upper Bound
Total:
127,731,766 127,503,008 127,960,524
Did not work at home:
123,632,760 123,410,680 123,854,840
Less than 5 minutes
4,791,691 4,702,365 4,881,017
5 to 9 minutes
14,163,858 14,011,124 14,316,592
10 to 14 minutes
18,190,699 18,029,086 18,352,312
15 to 19 minutes
19,488,494 19,321,133 19,655,855
20 to 24 minutes
17,970,605 17,821,384 18,119,826
25 to 29 minutes
7,334,855 7,243,993 7,425,717
30 to 34 minutes
16,095,552 15,948,410 16,242,694
35 to 39 minutes
3,292,633 3,229,032 3,356,234
40 to 44 minutes
4,207,255 4,143,425 4,271,085
45 to 59 minutes
9,055,177 8,938,783 9,171,571
60 to 89 minutes
6,483,022 6,386,748 6,579,296
90 or more minutes
2,558,919 2,492,005 2,625,833
Worked at home
4,099,006 4,034,291 4,163,721
Notes
The Census 2000 Supplementary Survey universe is limited to the household population and excludes the population living in institutions, college dormitories, and other group quarters. Data are based on a sample and are subject to sampling variability. The degree of uncertainty for an estimate is represented through the use of a confidence interval. The confidence interval computed here is a 90 percent confidence interval and can be interpreted roughly as providing 90 percent certainty that the true number falls between the lower and upper bounds.
Source: Census 2000"
Total of 123,632,760 United States workers that travel to a job
18,097,118 travel 45min to 1 1/2 hr or more for a job
= 14.5% of traveling workers travel 45min to 1 1/2 hr for work First I used personal examples. Then I showed that close to 15% of those over 16 travel a long way for work. People are willing to travel to work.
Many of us will have to settle for jobs that pay a lot less than that, and thus may not be able to afford really long commutes.
If you will not make a lot of money out of state then work instate. I thought the whole reason people would leave the state for work is to go to the cities for the high-tech, well-paying jobs. All of the states will have plenty of low paying jobs. We already talked about this. It is economics. More people equals more jobs.
Certainly, we will also bring some jobs. Getting rid of some of the unneeded regulations will save everyone money and either create more jobs or bring up pay. Also, competing school systems and more legalized gambling will bring in more jobs. Writers, radio show hosts, and pilots will also be able to move in and work in other places. Also, if companies know that 20,000 people will move into a small state over 8 years, they might be more likely to move to that state.
But the point in bringing up these figures is to show that maybe the natives of these states know something we don't. If Wyoming residents don't commute to Salt Lake City or Fort Collins, there must be a reason for that.
I mentioned 3 possible reasons in my previous post.
I've heard conflicting reports from people familiar with Wyoming about winter travel, but that may be the culprit.
I have also heard conflicting reports. I would like to know about Rapid City, Ogden, and Salt Lake City. I want to know about weather and actual travel time by people that live there.
I do know about Ft. Collins and Billings, though. Weather is not a major problem and people should have very little problems with driving out of state.
Certainly out-of-state work does not look like a major option for any of the states under consideration.
I think it is for those that want high-tech jobs. I really do not know who has these high-tech jobs. But if so many people say that tons of libertarians have high-tech jobs I agree. I just have almost no first-hand experience with this. I do not even know many people with high-tech jobs. Several of the local libertarians I know are in real estate.