We are all familiar with the term “travel nursing” being used as a synonym for “picky consumer”. Travel nursing is a way to provide your loved ones with a much-needed break and to make them feel appreciated and cared for while they are away.
One of the easiest ways to travel nursing your loved ones is to have them live in a house not too far from where you are. The key to traveling nursing effectively is the fact that you have a set distance the house from your loved ones home, and that distance can be reduced by many factors. One of the best ways to get a great house for your loved ones is to have them live in a neighborhood they are familiar with, which means they are likely to know you personally.
In New York City, for example, the closest subway stop to my house is the North Village station, which is in a very nice neighborhood and only a couple of blocks from my house. That makes commuting easy, and the train stop is close enough that I can easily walk to it on my way to work (a commute that used to take me about 1/2 an hour now takes me about 15 minutes).
A big part of the appeal of living in a neighborhood you are familiar with is the ease of commuting. If you’re commuting to work or school, you’re a few minutes in front of your destination. If you’re coming home or going to the grocery store, you are usually in front of your destination long before you actually drive there. Living in a neighborhood you’re familiar with makes your commute convenient and fun.
The average commute in the city for an apartment dweller is about 15 minutes. For the average person who lives in a city, commuting is a non-issue. What is a big issue is when you live in the suburbs and commute to work on the train or bus. These are the places where the commute is the longest because of the distance between train stations and bus stops. It takes 15 minutes to get to work. For an apartment dweller, commutes are 15 minutes.
One of the problems with commuting to work is that it takes away from the enjoyment that a city provides. You can’t go to a movie, eat in a restaurant, play a game, or shop. These are the things you do in a city. With commuting you take away from the enjoyment you have from a city.
There is no doubt that we all need to feel comfortable in the cities we live in. It’s not that we don’t like the city life, we just want more time in the city. We love the city life because it gives us a whole lot of things we don’t get from working in the offices.
There are a few studies that show that commuting and time in the city are linked. For instance, a study of over 1,500,000 people in the UK found that those who commute more often have more time to spend on leisure activities, like TV watching and book reading. The same study also found that those that spent more time commuting also had fewer sick days.
That’s a lot of time spent in your head and the commute is all the time you get to spend with your friends. To me, it just doesn’t work that way. We have to be more selective about where we spend time and how we spend it.
The good news is that there are many ways of making this work. For instance, by choosing your own times of the day and how often you go, and you can even use a smartphone app to track your commuting times and see if you are having a hard time finding the right route to work or if your commute is causing you to have a bad day.
