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You must live in a different EU than I do. Two hour commutes are normal around here (Dublin).


One way? That's anything but normal. Even if it's two-way it's nowhere near the norm.

The EU records this for pretty much all member states, and Ireland shows an average of 28 minutes.[0]

> In 2019, more than half (61.3%) of employed people in the EU traveled less than 30 minutes from home to work.

You are correct that Ireland is part of the group of countries which has a larger subset of people with long commutes, but hovering around 10% is not what I'd call "normal".

> The largest shares of the longest commuting times were observed in Latvia (13.5%), Ireland (11.2%), Belgium (10.7%) and Hungary (10.6%), where more than 10% of employed people had to travel from home to work for 60 minutes or more.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/d...




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