&gt; where public transportation is decent,<p>&gt; I found myself slugging for an hour and a half each way to get to an event<p>You must have a vastly different definition of &quot;decent public transportation&quot; than I do.<p>I don&#x27;t attend a ton of meetups, but of the ones I do attend, easily 90%+ of attendees spent 30 minutes or less (each way) to get there.