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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Bikes are awesome. I would love to experience the joy of waking up in the morning and riding a bike to work. No traffic, healthy and all that good shit. I live, however, 40min away from my work by car and 3 hours by bike, one way. I dont see this changing in the foreseeable future so my idea of freedom has to be something different.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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      1 minute ago

      You can do what I do and enjoy biking around town/your neighborhood as a leisure activity. Bike to whatever stores or appointments make sense. Biking to a hair cut for example is nice because the wind as you bike helps shake the bits of escaped hair out of your clothing!

      Current I super commute while I get the money scraped together to move, and even then my job requires me to drive a personal vehicle to customer sites as needed so biking/public transit likely won’t be an option until I land a better role with a company that isn’t as cheap as this one

    • ThanksForAllTheFish@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      In Europe this would likely be 30 mins commute on a train if you work in any sizable city. And you can take your bike on the train and finish the rest of the commute on the bike.

      • x00z@lemmy.world
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        11 minutes ago

        I did this but rented a bike in the city to drive to my work. The bike was only €15/month and paid by my employer.