How far do you travel to work?

[EvelynK72 Member Find all posts View Profile Close EvelynK72]

We live about 4 miles from work and I can make it there in 10 minutes. DH can make it there in less time. In the cornfields along the way, housing subdivisions are popping up like mushrooms!

A few months ago, we looked at different jobs - but we'd have to work at one of the corporate offices in either Irvine CA or Lake Success NY. The thought of commuting through all that traffic turned us off to that idea! We've been spoiled here with our "rush hour traffic" - waiting through one or maybe two changes of the traffic light!!

Evelyn

[Larry Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Larry]

I used to only have a four minute commute ... Then my work moved ... Now I have to travel six minutes !!

I used to drive to work and it took about 15 minutes but I now drive only about a mile to the train station and it then takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 1/2 hours each way door to door. What a bummer !!!!

[Vanessa Member Find all posts View Profile Close Vanessa]

About 25 miles each way. With deer season upon us, I change my route, now about 30 miles each way. Not bad at all.

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

We live about 4 miles from work and I can make it there in 10 minutes. DH can make it there in less time. In the cornfields along the way, housing subdivisions are popping up like mushrooms!

A few months ago, we looked at different jobs - but we'd have to work at one of the corporate offices in either Irvine CA or Lake Success NY. The thought of commuting through all that traffic turned us off to that idea! We've been spoiled here with our "rush hour traffic" - waiting through one or maybe two changes of the traffic light!!

Evelyn

Evelyn, if you took the job in Lake Success, you'd be lucky if you moved one mile in 10 minutes during the rush hour!

[pcgirl54 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pcgirl54]

Commuting

My drive is about 80 miles RT and DH is 100 per day. Due to Boston traffic it takes me 2.3 hrs and DH is 3-4hrs. If there are accidents or snow then it can be 1-2 hrs longer but that is rare. The closer to Boston,the higher the real estate prices and my Dad is 88 soon to be 89 and he lives 6 miles from me. Won't move in with us.
We are getting really sick of the commute though and the cost. DH just bought a Honda Civic and gets 40mpg. I am going to sell my car soon and get a commuter car. It was costing us $600.00 a month based on the $3.00 range per gallon plus our cars were $$ to repair.

[WazzuCougFan Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close WazzuCougFan]

It depends on which field we're working in, LOL (we're farmers). Although we don't use much fuel going to and fro, we sure spend a lot going in circles. At its highest our fuel bill was $7,000+ in one month (and unfortunately our fertilizer/chemical bill is also linked to natural gas prices and was over 10 times that figure for the year). Ouch!

[bevvy5 Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close bevvy5]

About 75 kilometres (Canadian again), 40 miles one way. I've been doing that commute for just over 10 years. When I started I could almost always make it in an hour. The traffic is so bad here now that it regularly takes me an hour and a half and tonight I was two hours getting home - the third time this week it took me that long to get to/from work, and it will be at least another two to three years, probably four before they improve the bridge into Greater Vancouver from the Fraser Valley.

I don't mind the commute most times, but it's a drag in the winter when it's dark and often raining. But usually I use the time to kind of destress and get the day organized in my head. I'm not distracted by the time I get home. But the nights I pull into my garage and don't really remember the drive home are a little scary!!

The gas cost? I weigh it against the whopping big mortgage I would have to have to live closer in. Plus my friends are here, my husband works at home and I see my grandson at least three times a week, which I wouldn't if we lived in the city.

So plusses and minuses.

A further question. On a scale of one to ten, how do you rate your commute? I recently heard that most people would rather be driving than cleaning their house.