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.
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 a
Similar to the Crazy Ideas Thread and Diaspora Roundup Thread, I thought I'd try making a General-Purpose Questions Thread.
The purpose is to provide a forum for asking questions to the community (appealing to the wisdom of this particular crowd) in things that don't really merit their own thread.