Someone, Somewhere.. Always has it Worse..

Following up on my blog about the time I spend commuting to work each year (just over 20 days) seems someone at the SMH may have read my blog (I wish)..  This article is timely but for those who can't be bothered reading the whole story below is an extract:

•  Some people in Mexico have a round trip of over four hours per day.
• We don't have to get to work via Bolivia's Yungas Road, which literally translates to 'Death Road' and claims some 300 lives each year
• Some children in China scale 1,000 foot high cliffs (almost as high as the Eiffel Tower) on their 200 kilometre journey to school
• There are tower climbers in America whose commute involves scaling to the summit of a 1,700  foot structure (higher than the Empire State Building and around 200 metres taller than Sydney Tower), sometimes without harnesses to fix electrical problems
• Students in Juarez, Mexico make a high-risk commute daily from the drug cartel-driven border city, where over 1000 people were killed in 2011, to attend the University of Texas-El Paso

http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/business-travel/crushed-by-the-commute-20120828-24yd1.html