Taking Extreme Commuting To The Next Level

Now This Is a Tough Commute

Some workers are going to great lengths to have the best of both worlds: a good job and a great home, even if they’re states apart.

Like thousands of other California workers, Ann Inman spends more than two hours getting to work, trekking westward from her suburban dream house to a high-paying job closer to the urbanized coast.

But Inman isn’t battling bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 101 Freeway. She’s aboard a Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to San Jose, preparing for the first of eight days of mostly 10-hour shifts as a trauma nurse at Stanford University hospital.

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When she’s not at work, she crashes in a shared, no-frills, one-bedroom apartment near campus, 350 miles and a state line away from her husband back home.

"It’s very intense for me, especially because I don’t like to fly," said Inman, 60. "But I can make more money here than anyplace else, and I’m kind of getting used to it."

By Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer

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