Roberto, from El Salvador, makes the train ride north sound like merely a long commute.

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At the least, a lack of affordable housing implies a long commute for the working poor.

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In the past, people were willing to accept a long commute for a taste of residential freedom, and cities built the infrastructure to assist them.

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Let's say you're someone who has a job, lucky enough to have a job, they have a long commute, and maybe they live in a cold place where they have high heating bills.

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Have a long daily work commute?

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Finally I asked him, why he bought the car with low mileage when he knew he was going to use that for his long commute and when he knew cost was a constraint for him.

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Photographers can work on the slopes of Vail or Aspen, shivering through long, cold days in exchange for spectacular views and a stellar commute down the slope.

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Her hour-long commute to the small village of Perajin Mariana was down a long and bumpy road.

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But in the general electorate, you know, a lot of these swing states have lots of people, many of them commute long miles, many of them not terribly affluent.

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Though he was enrolled at The Bronx High School of Science, a prestigious New York City public school, attending the school required him to make the long commute to the city's northernmost borough every day.

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