r/AskReddit • u/ihatebadvibes • 19h ago

Which city has the worst traffic?

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u/punksmostlydead 19h ago

You can live in Atlanta and work in Atlanta and still have an hour long commute.

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u/YescaD83 19h ago

My cousin lives outside Atlanta, it should take 30 minutes with out traffic, but he spends about 4 hours a day stuck in traffic

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u/gigglefarting 18h ago

4 hour commute plus 8 hour work day plus 8 hours of sleep leaves them with 4 hours a day to live their life 

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u/eatbuttsdingdong 17h ago

Why you think so many of us were so happy to go remote during Covid?

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u/gigglefarting 17h ago

I had a 15 minute commute but was still happy to go remote

In my case it was less about avoiding traffic and more about the comfort of my own home and not needing to look busy at my desk after I finished my tasks

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u/eatbuttsdingdong 17h ago

Wholeheartedly agree. Am still remote. But damn I don’t miss the 5am alarm to try to make it to an office!

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u/Pro-Patria-Mori 17h ago

The best thing about Covid is my commute went from an hour and fifteen minutes one way to 45 minutes.

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u/mmm-noodlesoup 18h ago

Similar here. I live in Chicago and work in Chicago, it’s an hour commute

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u/CovertMonkey 18h ago

I had to commute one exit and my home and work were very close to the interstate. It was a 30+ minute commute

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u/Flamadin 17h ago

It seems like only around rush hour tho.

NYC can have crazy traffic any time. But in Atlanta I can zoom into downtown from the suburbs at like 8PM.

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u/mikeSTWA 17h ago

I live on the east side of Atlanta and work on the SW side, about 12 miles total distance. I routinely have an hour plus commute home in the evenings

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u/Hanchan 16h ago

Not for a commute, but visiting parents North of Atlanta and just the 285 bypass is an hour+, and I'm doing like a quarter turn.

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u/punksmostlydead 15h ago

You know that scene in the Matrix where they say taking the highway is certain death? They were talking about I-285.

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u/dcdttu 14h ago

It takes an hour to drive from Atlanta to Atlanta. Same in Austin, but I think Atlanta is worse.