To make things worse, the poor guy now faced a one-hour commute twice a day. This may sound tolerable, but studies show that commuting by car represents a major source of discontent and stress, and people hardly ever get used to it. In other words, whoever has no innate affinity for commuting will suffer every day – twice a day. Anyhow, the moral of the story is that the dream villa had an overall negative effect on my friend’s happiness.
