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Cities with the Worst Commute in the World

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Think you've got a bad commute? IBM feels your pain. The tech giant surveyed over 8,000 commuters in 20 cities around the world to find the city with the unenviable title of having the worst commute on Earth:

According to IBM, the cities with the most "commuter pain"--hours spent in traffic, high price of gas, high stress, etc.--include Shenzen, Beijing, and Nairobi. The least painful commutes take place in Chicago, London, and Montreal. Overall, there has been a decrease in traffic since IBM first conducted its survey four years ago, largely because of high fuel prices and weak economies.

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I am sitting in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil and I call bullcrap on this list. Traffic here is MISERABLE! Folks who work downtown take 2-3 hours to drive to work in the worst traffic I have ever seen. I am longing for the days I was stuck on GA-400 in Atlanta!
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Commute here is both time/distance, and stress.

I've lived and commuted in NYC, London, Chicago, and Beijing, and spent considerable time in Montreal, Paris, Shenzhen, Denpasar, and Bangkok.

Of course, that's not all of them, but that experience, this result is fairly accurate to how much effort I spent at each place offsetting my commute: books-on-tape, changing commute times, etc

"I once spent a bad day..." that's not an average, that's an outlying worst-case. 10 yrs ago today it took me 12 hours to get home, but that's an aberrant single datum.

I can only feel sorry for Mexico City, if it's worse than Shenzhen. Wow... but the Mexicans I talk to never complain!
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This survey is way off. I've sat in traffic in LA, NYC, Boston, DC, Paris and London and I can tell you right now that Bangkok is worse than all of them combined. I've heard that Ho Chi Minh is worse than Bangkok.
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Yeah, and the policemen who swept my house after the alarm went off look kind of silly on my surveillance video.

I know this sounds like a joke, but I am serious. The perfect way to test if a dangerous animal is real is to shoot it a couple of times.
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From what I see, its just the head of a gator. If that's all, then they should have looked a little harder and asked a few questions: 'how big is it?', 'is it resting on land or floating in water?', 'when did you see it first?' and the most important question 'how long has it been there?'

Oh America, how your brains are now the size of walnuts! (except mine, mine is the size of a peach pit XP)
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yep, totall goofy, but...i think if they really just wanted to shoot it - they wouldn't have bothered to consult a conservation agent first.

people give c**p to the cops all the time...but if you need help you're still gonna dial 911.
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