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- From: drxmann@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dustin R. Christmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Paid Microsoft employees
- Message-ID: <76411@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 06:40:55 GMT
- References: <1992Jul19.010611.19910@microsoft.com> <1992Jul21.193529.4530@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul21.193529.4530@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >> I'll assert that your commute is longer than most. It six times
- >>longer than mine. Not that this makes much of a difference.
- >
- >Neat. Is this just something typical of the Northwest, or is it
- >Microsoft that gets its emplyees houses near the plant? In Northern
- >New Jersey, a 20-mile commute is common. Many commute 40 or 50 miles
- >to work each day. The "benefit" of living in the suburbs. After
- >counting traffic jams during the rush hours, a 30-minute commute isn't
- >unusual at all.
-
- No, it isn't typical of the NW, just any place that isn't a megalopolis. :-)
- Seriously, a 30-minute isn't uncommon in Houston (2-3 million metro population)
- but in thirty minutes you can go from well north of Austin (600-700 thousand
- metro population) to well south of town. And Austin is arguably the #2 high
- tech area in the US, behind Silicon Valley, earning it the nickname Silicon
- Prairie.
-
- [We now return you to comp.os.os2.advocacy.gordon.letwin.rant.and.rave.] :-)
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