Tough Housing Market Leads to Rise of Super Commuters

From bloomberg.com

Most Monday mornings, Karl Sparre is at Boston’s Logan Airport getting orange juice and a muffin before a 7:20 a.m. flight. By 10 a.m. he’s at his desk in Philadelphia. On Friday, he’s back home in Boston by 7:30 p.m. Sparre’s 600-mile (965-kilometer) odyssey of buses, trains, planes and automobiles inaugurates him into a growing group of executives. Researchers such as Mitchell Moss, an urban policy and planning professor at New York University, call them “super commuters”: men and women who have a residence in one city and work in another far away, often 100 miles or more. From 2002 to 2009, the number ... (full story)