[NY Post] Professor who super-commutes from LI to Boston explains why it’s less stressful than going into NYC daily
She’s trained for this commute.
A professor who has super-commuted from Long Island to Boston for the past 10 years says she prefers the lengthy roundtrip Amtrak ride each week over the daily grind of going into New York City.
Suffolk County resident Leora Lanz, who teaches at Boston University where she’s also an assistant dean, insisted her 10 hours on an Amtrak train between the Big Apple and Beantown has been rewarding — as she broke down for The Post how she and her family have pulled off the feat since January 2015.
The married mother of three said when she’s shipping up to Boston, she gets on a Long Island Rail Road train on a Monday morning that gets her into Penn Station in an hour and then she boards an Amtrak Acela for the roughly four-hour ride.
By Thursday or Friday, she’s on another Amtrak back home. The cost for a roundtrip ticket is usually between $150 and $200 because she books several months in advance.
When Lanz used to go into the Big Apple every day for work in the hospitality field, between LIRR rides and bustling subways, it ate up a similar amount of commuting time over five days.
But the trips to the New England city have actually improved her quality of life.
“It’s funny because a lot of folks would be like, ‘Wait did you just say you work in Boston? That’s crazy,’” she said. “And I would say no, I think it’s nuts to go back and forth to Manhattan every day because I’ve done that for 10 years, too.”