cowgirlkaboom
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Totally. It depends on the kind of work you do, but in many industries often you work globally with development teams, management in various locations, devices in various locations, customers everywhere, at least in my industry. Here meetings actually slow down process. But there are definitely good applications for group work in other industries and cultures.
As far as public transportation, I loved it when I lived in DC and Boston. However, out here on the the west coast I have yet to be impressed. A bus takes 1:27 with one transfer to get 5 miles to my house. Meanwhile you'll get talked up by drug addicts, people just getting out of jail and intoxicated people in general. I'm very glad the intoxicated people are on the bus but not driving, but gives me zero incentive to use it. I once had a boss ask me if I had been drinking before work because of the oder. I had one job I could cycle to, but it isn't safe to do that here as you will have to pass through homeless encampments and deal with the onslaught of students at the start of the semester with $200k sports cars.
But yeah, most of the above social issues could be solved with less people and value the ones we already have more, but thats way off topic. I'll keep driving my polluter and paying $1500/year for parking. Just too many people. It is hard to compare Europe to the US, smaller landmass, culture, etc.
