Quote - You should see what I would have to go thru to take a bus to work.
Get up at 5AM to be at the bus stop at 6:15AM take a 25 minute trip to Downtown Rochester NY. Wait 35 Minutes for the Bus that goes to East View Mall (AKA Bushnell's Basin) 45 Minute bus trip cost $5 one way.  I only live 5.5 Miles from work I would have to back track 16 miles if I was to take the local Transit. Talk about screwed up!

The first year I lived in the states I had to take the bus to work, because I couldn't afford a car.
12 miles from house to the office took an hour and a half and four transfers, because you have to go surface streets and some odd curcuitous route.

Plus, if they want you to stay little bit late, and you miss the bus and transfers home, you're in for almosta three hour trip.

Over here, most employers aren't symphatetic of that (at least anyone I ever worked for wasn't). They pretty much require you to have your own transportation, and not depend of whatever exists of public transit. if you don't, you end up being considered an unreliable employee. I had to sit through many of pep-talks how, if I don't get a car pretty soon, they may have to hire someone else, whose work hours don't depend on an unreliable bus schedule, or whom has to bee-line it out of the office at 5:03 and leave them in a bind with overtime for something that's due tomorrow, because they need to catch the bus home.

With the car, you hop on the freeway, and you're there in 20 minutes in almost a straight line.

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