Got a question for you.

What’s one thing about CAREER that practically EVERYBODY agrees on?

AND … to make this even harder…

It’s common to ALL cultures, ALL languages, ALL over the world.

AND … we’ve agreed on it from the very earliest days of civilization.

Head-scratcher, eh what?

Well – in 1994, Cesare Marchetti, an Italian physicist, declared that the one universal career constant that’s helped shaped urban planning since time immemorial has been this fact:

The MOST time anyone’s willing to commute, one-way, to get from home to work every day is a mere 30 minutes.

Half hour to work. Half hour back home. That’s all every man / every woman is good with giving up to commute to the daily date with that grindstone.

And the “Marchetti Constant” has helped shaped the cities we live in, as well as the way urban planners deal with transportation issues, for literally thousands of years.

Take ancient Rome for example – back then, the heart of the city was limited to the distance it took to walk about 30 minutes… just about 1 mile.  And according to CityLab.com, “most of the cities from the ancients to the Industrial Revolution did not grow much bigger than a two-mile diameter.”

Cities didn’t really take off and start expanding until the advent of technologies like the bicycle, rail lines, and of course, the automobile.

FYI – I did a quick search on Yahoo and found that the 5 WORST cities for commuting in the US are:  Seattle (avg 30.7 minutes), San Jose CA (31.05 minutes), San Francisco (32.46 minutes), NYC (35.47 minutes), and Washington, DC (37.04 minutes).

Looks like we’re still right there in line with what our Roman forefathers put up with to make a buck.

No matter how long it takes you get to and from work, you still need to spend some time figuring out the best way to invest and manage the results of those efforts. Call us at 513-563-PLAN (7526) or book online and let’s talk.

Regards,
Dan Cuprill, CFP®