How far do you drive to your job??

[TexLaw]

My commute is 10 miles, on the dot, and it is almost all highway and heading the opposite direction from traffic. It takes about 15-20 minutes for me to get from my kitchen table to my office desk.

I cannot imagine actually choosing an hour commute over a shorter one. A nice home is great, but not if you are never there. I also know what I was like when I had a more difficult commute. I was stressed out and pissed off for at least an hour after getting to the office and at least an hour after getting home. That is not a nice lifestyle.


TL

 

[CBBaron]

Its an 8 mile bicycle ride for me. I do that year round. I figure the 16miles a day riding allows me an extra beer or two in the evening.

My wife drives about 3 miles each way, so even with trips and visits to friends and family we come in at about 10k miles a year on the auto as a family.

When your figuring the cost of your commute, don't forget to add deprecation, maintenance, extra insurance etc. to your figures. Not including your time, driving is expensive.

Craig

 

[Donasay]

I live 2.5 miles from my work, the subway is right outside my apartment and right outside my office door to door it is 12 minutes. If it is a ice day I can walk to work in about 45 or bike in about 20.

 

[AnonyBrew]

Unemployed! No commute for me, unless you consider my daily trip to the Flying Saucer in Austin.

 

[jdoiv]

About 10 feet for me. I work from home. I did have an office that was 13 miles from home and took me about 30 minutes to get to. My office in LA was also 13 miles away and took me about an hour each way each day. Working from home has it's advantages, any chance you get to lessen your commute, take it.

 

[Cheeto]

8 miles.....

past 3 schools and a college

I leave my house at 7am and get to work 30 min later

13 stoplight and one 4 way stop

 

[stever]

29 miles each way and takes about 45 minutes on a good day and 60 minutes+ on a bad day. I get about 22mpg which i consider good compared to my 13mpg I got with my old blazer. I want to buy a truck though in the fall but with these gas prices though I may just have to pick up a beater truck as my 2nd vehicle.

 

[Philip1993]

I cannot imagine actually choosing an hour commute over a shorter one. A nice home is great, but not if you are never there. I also know what I was like when I had a more difficult commute. I was stressed out and pissed off for at least an hour after getting to the office and at least an hour after getting home. That is not a nice lifestyle.

+10. An hour commute sucks...

 

[middleofnowhere]

I drive about 3.5 kilometers...the town is only about 3 kilometers across, but I have to drive slightly outside of town to the mine I work at.

 

[adx]

Right now I do 26 miles each way and it's all highway. I can do door to door in 30 minutes. Until the beginning of the year I was doing 37 miles and it would take 45-55 minutes door to door. That 15 minutes may not sound like a lot, but my sanity came back big time with the new commute.

The wife commute 8 miles but it takes her 20-35 minutes because it's all lights.

I just bought a house and in less then a month I'll be doing 7 miles and less then 10 minutes. The wife will be doing 16 and it will be able the same 25-35 minutes.

My take is don't do it. You'll just end up hating the commute and the house. I used to be an avid driver. Once I started sitting in a car for 1.5 - 2 hours a day, I started to despise driving. Even now I will rarely go anywhere just because I'm still sick of all the driving I used to do.

 

[bethlehembrewer]

5 miles and I can ride my bike. Driving it takes me about 6 mins, the only thing I might get caught up in is a moose. Riding my bike takes about 20 mins. Didnt today because I needed to get to the LHBS.

I used to commute into NYC everyday to work during the summers. That was a bitch. On the train I would leave at 6:15am and get to Manhattan at 8am. Leaving I would get on the 4:45pm and be back at 7:30pm. Plus the $500 p/month for a student train ticket and Metrocard, sucks. If there were major storms then it could take all night. One time there were tree's down on the track and we sat for about 3 hours, I had my dad come get me and some other people who lived in the same town. We didnt get back till 9:30pm that night.

Commuting sucks, dont do it. If you can take a job 5 mins from home which might pay less then an hour commute with more pay, do it. Money can't buy happiness, but posting this at work and getting home before someone can respond does.

 

[quixotic]

10-minute free bus ride. Gas is ~$4/gallon here now (don't worry-- you will see that too soon...). Why drive is you don't have to? Waste of time and $.

 

[quickerNu]

I drive 24 miles each way everyday. 2 stop signs, no lights. It is all backroad then I-35. I ride my motorcycle almost everyday. I do not miss my 134 mile round trip commutes to Austin!

 

[Desert_Sky]

7 miles on the dot from my driveway to the parking lot at work. I also ride home for lunch/nooner most days too.

 

[Fletch78]

65 miles one way. 5 days a week. And some weekends. In ATL traffic. Driving an oldsmobile.

 

[buzzbee]

6 miles country driving. 3 stop signs and 1 traffic light.
Some times we go to town just to watch the signal change,lol.

 

[homebrewer_99]

UPDATE: My commute will decrease to ZERO once I retire on April Fool's Day 2010...

 

[glenn514]

My commute here in northern Illinois used to be .75 mile. Since 1 July 2009, it is ZERO...that's what happens when you retire!

But I worked in Dallas, TX for five years, and lived in Plano, TX. My commute was 15-16 miles, and I quite often had to do it TWICE a day. Needless to say, it got old really fast!

glenn514

 

[ChshreCat]

We just bought a house. Where I lived, I was right between both my jobs. 30 minutes to one of them and 20 minutes the other way to my weekend job. Figured when I bought a house we'd end up closer to one or the other. Nope. We ended up moving to the ONE place that would be FURTHER away from BOTH. Now I have a 50 minute drive to my full time job and a 40 minute drive to my weekender. How do I always manage to do things this way?

 

[Natas]

I've got a tough nine block stroll. Sometimes I even have to jump on my skateboard when I'm in a hurry.

 

[jkarp]

 

[andysim]

I live about 11 miles from work. Takes me 22 minutes to get there.

 

[Orfy]

80 minutes a day.
May be once a month (accidents) 2 hours one way.

Worth it because I like the company I work for.

 

[niquejim]

I've got a tough nine block stroll. Sometimes I even have to jump on my skateboard when I'm in a hurry.

A nine block stroll to go and brew beer is just not fair

 

[zman]

1/4 mile and 8 minutes on the light rail

 

[Mustangj]

45 min to a hour.

I've been doing it for 5 years and it's getting old. Good thing I'm only working 3-4 days a week.

A couple years ago I was working 7 days and that sucked.

If I was to do it all over, I'd move as close as I could to work.

 

[hal2814]

I spent most of my professional career doing 30 minute each way commutes to either Athens, GA or Gainesville, GA. One year I worked in Atlanta with an hour commute each way. That got old fast. I always thought 30 minutes was reasonable until I found a job 2 miles from my house. I took a pay cut just to get the position. Now I have about a 10 mile trip to work since I drop the kids off at school and a 2 mile trip home. My favorite part of living so close is eating lunch at home. That alone has probably saved me more than my loss in pay. It's also nice getting home right around 5:00. That extra half hour makes a big difference, especially in the winter.

 

[Hermish]

I just switched to a new office. Went from 45 min to 1.5 hours each way with traffic, to 27 miles and about 35 minutes now without traffic. It is a lot better, traffic drives me crazy.

 

[Natas]

A nine block stroll to go and brew beer is just not fair

Yea, I've been told I've got it tough, but someones got to do it. Beer doesn't brew itself you know.:cross:

 

[MMTG]

My station is 4.4 miles away from my home.