There's an interesting thread that's active right now, talking about an article that suggests that we might have reached "Peak Car". The article cites an urban planning principle called the Marchetti Wall, which basically says that MOST people will not tolerate a one-way commute of more than an hour, regardless of the means. There's a related concept called the Marchetti Constant, which is based on the observation that most people will adjust their lives to keep their commute time constant, and that the rule of thumb is 90 minutes per day. In general, people will move their residences, their jobs, or find alternate means of transportation to keep their commute time relatively constant at 90 minutes per day, on average. This limits the practical bicycle commute distance to what you can comfortably ride in 45 minutes or so, including the time it takes to "make yourself presentable" at work, if applicable.

This doesn't mean that a few people won't deliberately increase their commute to over an hour; only that most people won't. Which means that the ones who do will always be outliers.