Vaniver comments on General-Purpose Questions Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 20 June 2016 04:57:10PM 1 point [-]

I believe a number of happiness studies have found commute time negatively associated with happiness, but I don't have any references on hand, and if the ones you're seeing don't have that I'm surprised.

Comment author: Elo 21 June 2016 03:28:37AM *  -2 points [-]

Papers:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/16078055.2014.903723 http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(12)00167-5/abstract http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-11-834 http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(07)00745-3/abstract http://www.gallup.com/poll/142142/wellbeing-lower-among-workers-long-commutes.aspx

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3560964/ but these were not clear about what about longer commutes is a problem other than potential health problems.

As above:

I would be keen to update this advice to something more accurate and more specific than "live close to work".

(urgh comment formatting is annoying and those characters don't let me escape them)