# Your country's (and culture's) relationship with TIME

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-countrys-and-cultures-relationship-with-time/1025967>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 22, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-countrys-and-cultures-relationship-with-time/1025967 "2025-12-22T23:04:38Z")\
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the non-american in me - thinks that “commuting” may be a reason for this.

For every european, reading that mericans commute often 150 km x day - is just mindblowing (both on the “time-sink” aspect and the carbon footprint of it) …

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**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-countrys-and-cultures-relationship-with-time/1025967/22 "2025-12-23T23:39:03Z")

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When I lived in New Jersey I took the train and subway into NYC. The commute was two hours each way.

That was pretty typical for that region.

Now I commute 40 minutes to work and 60 minutes back, but it’s mostly a remote job. Still, I have to drop off and pick up my kid and take him to therapy, etc so there are some weekdays I do three hours of driving.

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