It won't cut it for the average commuter, but it'd cut it for the median commuter. Really it only needs to cut it for, say, the 10th percentile commuter to have a really big market.
I’ve changed jobs four times since moving to the bay area in 2006, and none has ever been within thirty miles of the next. If people bet on always having a short commute, I think a lot of them will be sad.
One of my complaints is California's housing market and zoning makes it difficult for people to relocate close to work. And work to locate close to workers. So instead we have people wasting vast amounts of time and resources commuting.
I've probably spent 5000 hours and $100,000 on commuting over the last 30 years. It's all been fundamentally a waste.
You must have very different preferences than what I have. I live about 5 miles from my (former) office in SF, and it was also one of the cheaper options to do so.
I had a commute like that (from the Mission to Market St.) but they slowly went under and my next job was in the South Bay. I wouldn’t want to hesitate about career opportunities due to the range of my car, after relocating 800 miles from Seattle for my career.
