{"id":8485,"date":"2011-10-13T16:26:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8485"},"modified":"2011-10-13T16:45:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:45:29","slug":"mr-money-mustache-the-true-cost-of-commuting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=8485","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Money Mustache | The True Cost of Commuting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrmoneymustache.com\/2011\/10\/06\/the-true-cost-of-commuting\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/la-traffic-jam-182x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea of living close to work still seems to be completely alien to most people I\u2019ve met. While I would personally consider it far more important than even the salary or the work performed, most people put commute distance below house price, perceived school quality, and neighborhood preference. With such a low threshold placed on commuting, most people don\u2019t even put a reasonable effort into creating a nice local lifestyle for themselves. As you saw with the couple in my example above. They were willing to go from their existing negligible commute, to an Insane Asylum 80 minute round trip, just because they liked the scenic and neighborly vibe of my neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at Mr. Money Mustache: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrmoneymustache.com\/2011\/10\/06\/the-true-cost-of-commuting\/\">The True Cost of Commuting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of living close to work still seems to be completely alien to most people I\u2019ve met. While I would personally consider it far more important than even the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[442,144,25],"class_list":["post-8485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-commuting","tag-housing","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8493,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions\/8493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}