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> Behavioral economics of this sort only seems interesting when it offers productive tips to rectify the mistake. So how do you get people to weight the commute time appropriately?

Startup idea?

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Maybe more like a feature... I've noticed that realtor.com beta lets you search for houses within an X-mile radius of a given address (e.g. your work). Trulia.com, on the other hand, lets you see the housing trends for a given city/zipcode. If I could do a search on Trulia (and save it) within X miles of an address, and see housing trends and houses for sale for that circle (while I'm dreaming, let me have a custom RSS feed for a given search instead of an email), that would be ideal.

http://www.mysociety.org/2007/more-travel-maps/

I've been running a real estate startup for two and a half years and wouldn't necessarily recommend it to anyone in this market. Tough business to make inroads into and find profit in, despite the tremendous opportunity to improve the user experience. Not saying you can't do it, but it's not the kind of low-lying fruit you should look for as a small startup.

For example: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/141586.a...

blueroof.com has a widget that links MLS data to local listings in Salt Lake.

Methinks there is potential for a web startup to sell such widgets...

Good luck with that.

MLS data is not created/accessed equally between states/regions.

FYI - The transition is being made from MLS to RETS, www.rets.org.

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