Taking Extreme Commuting To The Next Level

"Sleepover commuters" are travelling across state lines, even several time zones, to get to work.

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September 8, 2006, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Blame a decade of soaring home prices in the Silicon Valley and other parts of California for the proliferation of what could be dubbed sleepover commuters. Working in a wide range of professions and trades, all that many of the new extreme commuters have in common are flexible schedules and a cheap place to stay when they're away from home, typically with friends or in one of the "commuter rooms" being advertised in the Bay Area...some people are opting to keep their jobs in the Golden State while buying a house hundreds of miles â€" or even two or three time zones â€" away...

It's not just nurses who are on the move. The self-employed, whose ranks have grown since 2000 and who often have flexible schedules, account for a significant number of sleepover commuters.

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