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Your Commute May Kill You: 16 Close-to-Home Jobs in Plymouth-Canton

There are reasons beyond saving money on gas to work close to home — including your health and the health of your marriage.

PLYMOUTH-CANTON, MI — Maybe you don’t have a car. Or perhaps you want to be able to walk or bike to work. Or maybe you’ve computed the true cost of a commute and have decided that you can’t afford the amount of money filling up with gas, paying for parking and other costs of a commute will take from your paycheck.

Commutes can also take time away from your family in the mornings and evenings and, depending on how much time you have to spend in the car, leave you feeling stressed out before you even start to work.

But that’s not all.

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Commuting can affect both your health, and contributing to problems such as to obesity, neck pain and exhaustion, as well as the health of your marriage. Researchers at the Umea University in Sweden found that when one partner commutes for longer than 45 minutes, couples are 40 percent likelier to divorce.

So, if you’re looking for a job close to home, we found several on the Plymouth-Canton Patch Jobs Board that were posted in the last several days. Here are a few of them:

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