Originally Posted by
DoubleJ
And sometimes they can live pretty far away. I had one colleague who commuted from Okinawa to Tokyo on a regular basis (not everyday, but several times a week, depending on how "compactly" he could arrange his work schedule). Though he was (correctly) not fully reimbursed for his travel expenses (after all it was his voluntary choice to live there), he nevertheless did receive some monies.
Wow..that's crazy. but im sure people do that frequently here in the US as well..commuting between east and west coast on a regular basis.