I would say in that regard its even harder here. Not enough companies embrace remote work and it's often a long commute to offices. With traffic mine is over and hour and I keep being told its "not that bad". My arms keep going numb from the drive, not that bad my a$$.
Years ago, long before the Daughter was on the scene, I drove from Ft. Worth to north of Dallas every day to work (about an hour, since I was on the afternoon shift and missed most of the traffic. Books-on-tape were my best friends, in those years!)
I did that kind of commute in SoCal every day for years. After the Daughter was born, well.... Leave work at 4:30pm, swing by daycare and pick up the kid by 5:30 it could take that long to get to the parking lot and then on the freeway and then to the daycare 5 miles away), then drive onto the other freeway and maybe make it home by 6:15 on a good night. Some nights ya could just tell it was going to take longer, so we'd hit a burger drive-through, park, and maybe go to Target for a while. I do NOT miss those days at all. On the good side, the Daughter and I had that time uninterrupted to be able to talk to each other. Every day. Mornings didn't count because we had to leave the house by 5:30am to get her to the daycare so she could catch the 6:00am bus to her magnet school (and traffic was light at that time of the morning). Her school started at 7:15am. Poor kid, an hour on the bus to school, an hour on the bus from school. Then having to be at daycare, then another commute home. Not the way to spend one's childhood, really. But, ya do what you have to do.
I really don't like driving anymore.
