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> No comparable European city is even close to Houston in average commute time.

Even if that is true, average commute time is just a single factor. There's also health, cost, comfort, the environment, safety. Comparisons using a single metric are simply invalid.

> Go on, fact check me.

Ok.

Couldn't find any reliable data, could you cite your sources? What I have found is a few sources with wildly different data, e.g.:

- [1] puts Houston at 42 minutes, very different from your claim of 28 minutes.

- [2] claims the average time for the EU is 25 minutes.

Most of the sources I've found are based on self-reported data (surveys) so I do not put much weight on them. Do you have any sources that provide reliable data?

[1]: https://www.theworldranking.com/statistics/125/traffic-commu...

[2]: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/d...



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