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“It might sound corny, but I love the way the city looks as I’m walking down Bush Street at 7:30 in the morning,” says Susan Javaheri, who treks 20 minutes each way from her Nob Hill apartment to Wells Fargo at Front and Market, where she’s VP of business development. “It’s really quiet, and I pass the entrance to Chinatown and feel like I’m a part of San Francisco.” Javaheri’s last job, in Marin, kept her in her car most of the time, and when she got the offer from Wells Fargo, “the ability to walk to work was a big factor in my taking it.” Of course, she had to go out and buy some flats, which she had never owned before, but a few Tod’s ballerinas and a pair of Chanel boots later, Javaheri is happy to plug into her iPod (James Blunt and Maroon 5 are on her “Walking to Work” playlist) and let the chilly morning air wake her. The advantages of her pedestrian commute—saving money on gas, not having to park, feeling that she’s doing her part for the environment—outweigh the negatives to the extent that Javaheri’s considering selling her car, which she rarely uses except to visit family and friends in the East Bay on weekends. “I’ve never lived without a car, so it’s just that last letting go” that scares her, she says. As for using it on a daily basis? “Hell no! I’d never go back to commuting in a car.”
“It might sound corny, but I love the way the city looks as I’m walking down Bush Street at 7:30 in the morning,” says Susan Javaheri, who treks 20 minutes each way from her Nob Hill apartment to Wells Fargo at Front and Market, where she’s VP of business development. “It’s really quiet, and I pass the entrance to Chinatown and feel like I’m a part of San Francisco.” Javaheri’s last job, in Marin, kept her in her car most of the time, and when she got the offer from Wells Fargo, “the ability to walk to work was a big factor in my taking it.” Of course, she had to go out and buy some flats, which she had never owned before, but a few Tod’s ballerinas and a pair of Chanel boots later, Javaheri is happy to plug into her iPod (James Blunt and Maroon 5 are on her “Walking to Work” playlist) and let the chilly morning air wake her. The advantages of her pedestrian commute—saving money on gas, not having to park, feeling that she’s doing her part for the environment—outweigh the negatives to the extent that Javaheri’s considering selling her car, which she rarely uses except to visit family and friends in the East Bay on weekends. “I’ve never lived without a car, so it’s just that last letting go” that scares her, she says. As for using it on a daily basis? “Hell no! I’d never go back to commuting in a car.”
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