Time wise though, it might be a faster commute than in Silicon Valley.

Around 1.5 hours today each direction, but I am commuting to a different country and have to cross a bridge.

Back then it was 1 hour or so - maybe a little less if traffic was good.

How can you waste that much of your life? You've spent almost an entire year over the past ten years just moving your body around because other people want you to.

This would be considered a long but not especially noteworthy commute in the US.

1.5 hours each way gets you into the “supercommuter” level but 1 hour each way is fairly common.

I did just over an hour each way for three months and questioned what the point was. I was wasting my life just so I could live in one place and work in another, but for what? My "living" basically consisted if eating and sleeping and my body started to become fat and unhealthy due to not having the time to exercise. What's the point of transporting a fat, useless body 100 miles every day?

Oh, I'm 100% onboard that one of the quickest ways to improve your life is to lower your commute time. I'm just saying commuting that long is not a particularly odd thing to do.

Being overweight is not a particularly odd thing either. It's not good, it's just mundane.