Cities With the Lowest Commuting Costs in High Fuel Price Times

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Over at CNN Money they’ve run a story identify the best cities to live in if you’re needing to save money on fuel costs. It makes quite an interesting list and includes these:

Hays, Kansas: with an average commute of less than 10 minutes, most people live near and work in the large medical center or the state university

Santa Paula, California: many people have a reasonable distance to travel to work from Santa Paula, but they’ve got their act together to save fuel money in a very sensible way - almost 30% of commuters take part in car pools

Westport, Connecticut: a lot of very well-off people live here, and one of the ways they stay well-off is by avoiding commuting costs altogether - many of them work from home, with over 11% of locals having home offices

Laramie, Wyoming: home to the University of Wyoming, where more than 5,000 locals work, and the average commuting time for all residents is under 10 minutes

Hoboken, New Jersey: lots of locals here work in New York City or in other parts of New Jersey, but the trend is never to drive along - three quarters of them travel with at least one other person in their car when they’re commuting