Do you have a family and kids? Do you enjoy living in the city?

I cannot bike to work, but I'm sitting on the back porch looking out over the marsh on this amazing Sunday morning. In the city, if I even had a porch I would be staring at someones back yard or the building next to me.

The slice of the population that can just take their pick of an arbitrarily large pool of choice jobs within cycling distance is really tiny. Others will choose to move around which works somewhat if one rents and has less stuff than I always did--and don't have SOs, kids, etc.

Not everyone has as much choice as a typical HN reader. Personally I'm completely on your side, I currently have a 15min bike ride to work. I only take the bus when bringing cake to work, everything else goes in the saddlebags :)