From 2002 to 2009 the number of super commuters grew in eight of the 10 largest U.S. metropolitan areas
WASHINGTON - A growing number of people are traveling really long distances to work. Researchers call them "super-commuters." Many of them travel hundreds of miles from their homes to work. They take a combination of cars, planes, trains and...
“You’ve got all the stereotypes that you’ve always had, there’s sunny people down south in places like Italy and Spain and Greece and they’re lazy. They’re yelling, they wave their hands, they don’t know how to do accounting, they take siestas. Then there’s all these rigid, Nordic and Germanic peoples working from 6 to 6 to pay for them....
