These are the crazy things people will do to eliminate commute

These are the crazy things people will do to eliminate commuteThese are the crazy things people will do to eliminate commuteThat infuriating feeling when youre just sitting in traffic, not moving, is costing you to the tune of 42 hours and $1,400 in gas money a year, according to Driving Tests survey of terrible morning commutes. They surveyed 943 people from some of the most gridlocked cities in America.Its enough to make you just get out of your car, leave it in standstill traffic, and start walking, like the scene at the end of R.E.M.s Everybody Hurts video.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moraThe overall percentage of people who hate their daily commute is high, at 48.6%, but its higher for subway/train riders, at 51.8%. By city, hatred abounds, with Boston at 56%, San Francisco at 55.4%, and Chicago at 54.5%. Take a look at more of the cities and their hatred in the graphic bel ow.What people would do to banish their commuteIt was found that people were willing to do almost everything, from the predictable sacrifices to truly desperate and depraved acts to stop commuting.Give up social media for a year 35%Give up pornography for a year 31%Be single for a year 22%Get a root canal 16%Eat a bowl of cockroaches 6%Kill a stray cat or dog 6%Wow. That got dark fast. Moving on, lets just file commuting under those other life inevitables, like death and taxes. Just be grateful youre not a super-commuter.Check out the rest of the list of things people would do to banish their commute.You might also enjoyNew neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happyStrangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds10 lessons from Benjamin Franklins daily schedule that will double your productivityThe worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs10 habits of mentally strong people