<prompt> Human: Throwaway because this is too personal...Okay, so right now I work in the SF Bay area. More specifically, in the East Bay, in the Walnut Creek, Danville, San Ramon area. I live about 1 hour, without traffic, east of where I work. With traffic, it takes me about 2 hours in each direction. There is always traffic. Always.I make a decent living for the bay. 95k yr salary with a quarterly, discretionary, bonus that fluctuates between 6 and 12 of my annual salary. So top earning potential is 140k yr. Housing where I am today is 1655 month, which is a little more than 14 of my take home income excluding bonus. Im also spending 300 month in gas and bridge tolls. Not to mention the opportunity cost of spending 4 hours a day driving when I could be spending it with my wife and daughter, or going to the gym, or whatever. Housing where I work, on average, works out to be about 38ths 2300 month of my take home income for an apartment that basically the same as the one we live in today 2 bdrm, 1 ba, 900 sqft. My question is this: If you were in my position, would you move and spend 13 of your take home income on housing, and cut your commuting time down from 4 hours day to 1? Or suck it up and tuck away the extra money?  <response>: Which is more valuable? Time or money? If it was me... A 2 hour commute would make me miserable and I would find it worth it, if its within a normal budget and cost, to pay more to move closer. 