Right-Wing Hypocrisy....

[PGen98]

It was awful, the few times I was there.

 

[Nebulous]

It was awful, the few times I was there.

Try living here for your entire life.

 

[PGen98]

Try living here for your entire life.

Touche!

 

[Webster]

I'd probably be depressed if I had to commute to an airport, then fly somewhere, land, then commute to my work place after that. Work all day long then have to do it all over again just to get home.

Could be worse....

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-05-19-9305190284-story.html

SALT LAKE CITY — Roger Whitby's commute time is routine by Los Angeles standards-three hours from home to office. But Whitby's trip starts in Utah and ends in downtown L.A., 715 miles and one time zone to the west.

As housing prices, crime rates and freeway traffic have skyrocketed in Southern California, Whitby's mega-commute has become a viable alternative for some Angelenos. Middle-class Californians have been deserting the tarnished Golden State for Washington, Oregon, Utah and Colorado in recent years, but not all make a clean break.

Like Whitby, an attorney, many Southern Californians discover they cannot replace their high salaries with jobs in more desirable places. For some, the pay advantage is so large that they can keep an apartment in L.A. for weeknight stays, pay airline fares and still maintain a higher standard of living in Utah than they could in California, where home prices are three times as high.

"The job I had there was better than anything I could get here, so I kept it," Whitby said. "If you have a Southern California paycheck and you don't have to pay the high cost of housing there, you would actually be better off, financially and otherwise, with your family here."

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So much traffic flows down the mountain to Salt Lake International Airport that Myles Rademan, the ski town's director of public affairs, considers Park City "a national suburb."

A sense of safety is important to Whitby, who often hears gunshots near his condo in a "nice neighborhood" in L.A. "I don't even like to bring my family down for visits anymore," he said.

Whitby said his wife and four children "have thrived" in the quiet college town of Provo south of Salt Lake City, even though the four-day-a-week separation can be difficult. "I spend hours every week on the phone, helping the kids with math," he said. "I rationalize that I probably wouldn't be home much on weeknights anyway."

The dual lifestyle has its advantages. Los Angeles offers more cultural diversions and night life than all Utah towns combined, and no one surfs the Great Salt Lake. But Utah offers its own enticements. "I'm sitting here looking at the spectacular Wasatch Front (of the Rockies) out of my window and I don't see a bit of smog-just snow-capped mountains," said Dr. Dick Barnes, who maintained his dental office in Los Angeles after moving to Alpine, Utah, in 1981.

Barnes regularly flew his own plane between Utah and his dental office for three years before he sold the practice. Last year he moved his 100-employee dental lab and management consulting business to Salt Lake City. "There's more opportunity to make bigger money in California than up here in Utah, but here it's more relaxed," he said. "I have no desire to return to California."

 

[Nebulous]

Could be worse....

Glad I am not Roger Whitby