Some people are choosing to live in cheaper cities or close to family and still make it to the office hundreds of miles away. Enter the super commuter, or those willing to travel three or more hours to work.
Take Wall Street Journal reporter Chip Cutter. To meet the publication’s in-office mandate three days a week, Cutter described in an essay how he commutes to Midtown Manhattan from his home base in Columbus, Ohio. It’s a less than two-hour flight covering over 500 miles.
In the personal essay published on January 7, Cutter said the benefits of living in Ohio — nightly walks with his sister, proximity to his parents — outweighed those of moving to New York, where he figured he’d spend as much on a subpar studio apartment as on his apartment in Columbus plus travel costs — around $3,200 a month.
Cutter’s decision may sound extreme, but he isn’t alone. As companies lean into hybrid work modelsafter the …