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I currently live in Orange County and commute to downtown. My wife and I both work in downtown and our children attend a daycare in a City-owned building provided for children of City employees (convenient, but bloody expensive). The four of us all commute in together, drop the kids off, then go off to our respective offices. I wouldn't want to take two children under 2 years of age on a Metrolink train. The toddler would love it, the other passengers would be giving me the stinkeye. The house I'm buying is in L.A. County a fair bit closer to work, but it's still a commute. It's not the distance, which is actually pretty reasonable, it's the fact that almost 4 million people live in Los Angeles and probably millions more work in the area and the freeways in the downtown area were not remotely designed for that kind of demand. On a good day, my commute is an hour; in ugly traffic, it's an hour and a half. There was one day when the wet stuff came down from the sky and everyone freaked out and suddenly forgot how to drive; I arrived at work three hours after I left home.
