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If I need to work at the library, either across town or downtown, it's about 25 minutes total travel time. Most days I just walk from my bedroom to my home office.
i only have about a 4 minute drive from my house to work. on county roads mostly. when it is really nice it takes me 4 minutes to get to work and 40 minutes to get home. i ride a motorcycle when it is really nice
My main job is here in the house, raising my son. Some of my income is from a new art business, for which my workshop is in the backyard.Suck it, two-hour commuters! :-P
My wife and I commute together every day, by the time I drop her off at work, and come back to my work it is around 22 minutes. We only work about a mile apart, so it is quite convenient, but about 1/3 of our time is taken up getting the one mile to her work and back to mine.
I'm so jealous of everyone with short commutes. If there is no traffic (as in 1am so there really is no traffic) it takes me 30 minutes. My average drive is 40-45 minutes.
20-35 minutes each way, depending on traffic and whether school and university are in. When school is out and especially when school is out and the university is out, it might be as little as 15 minutes, but that's really pushing it because there are a crapload of lights I have to get through.
About an hour door-to-door. After about 5 miles of narrow, winding country road, complete with kamikazi deer and the occassional escaped cow, it's all highway--460 to I85 to I95. Since I work at night I don't have to deal with commuter traffic, but I95 can suck around the holidays. I was the victim of some awesome road rage Thanksgiving weekend, from a jackass with Florida plates who was clearly not happy.
Right now, my commute is five miles, half through the 'burbs and half in downtown traffic, taking 12-15 minutes. Before I was laid off, it was 25 miles one way, about 35-55 minutes depending on traffic and weather.
I once commuted from san francisco to sacramento for 3 months . it took 2 hrs to get to sacramento and 2 1/2 hrs to get back to san francisco due to traffic delays. I worked in Pleasanton, CA for 2 yrs and that took 45 minutes in the morning and 1 1/2 hrs in the afternoon. The reason for the longer afternoon delays: you do not pay a bridge toll to get out of san francisco but do pay a bridge toll to get into san francisco.
I leave home at 7.15am arrive at work around 8.30am.
I drive to the train station which takes about 5 minutes. My daughter comes with me.
Often we pick up people along the way as we know a lot of our neighbours. We could walk but it would take 20 minutes. The train trip in the morning takes 53 minutes. I love this time on the train and wouldn't swap it for anything, it is dedicated reading time. I often meet people I know on the train. Some times they want to chat, some times they allow me to read. I then have a 10min walk to the office from the train station.
In the evenings I catch a faster train home. It takes 37 minutes and involves a train change mid commute. (not so good for reading). I rarely meet friends in the evening. Often I have to pick up one of the kids from sport or dance or some other activity so it's handy having the car at the station.
I drive to the train station which takes about 5 minutes. My daughter comes with me.
Often we pick up people along the way as we know a lot of our neighbours. We could walk but it would take 20 minutes. The train trip in the morning takes 53 minutes. I love this time on the train and wouldn't swap it for anything, it is dedicated reading time. I often meet people I know on the train. Some times they want to chat, some times they allow me to read. I then have a 10min walk to the office from the train station.
In the evenings I catch a faster train home. It takes 37 minutes and involves a train change mid commute. (not so good for reading). I rarely meet friends in the evening. Often I have to pick up one of the kids from sport or dance or some other activity so it's handy having the car at the station.
I live 30 kms out of town and it takes me about 20 minutes in the summer to get to work. In the winter, it's more like 30 minutes. I am self employed and can set my own hours, so I no longer need to leave the house at some ungodly hour of the morning to slip and slide on nasty winter roads in the dark. I did that for too many years when I was employed.
I have a beautiful drive through a river valley with relatively little traffic.
My commute's an hour each way. It's not a bad drive since I leave the house 5 am and get off at 3.
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Stay at home mom. I live in pajamas until it's time to leave the house. I might go back to work when the youngest is in kindergarten, but right now I'm enjoying a couple years of house goodness.I used to have a 2 hour commute though. Don't miss it one bit.
It takes me 40 minutes to get to work. I walk ten minutes to downtown to the bus stop, ride the bus for twenty minutes, and then walk ten more minutes from the bus stop to the office. I like getting in some walking as part of my regular day, especially since I'm sitting most of the time at work.
Or, I can drive and get to work in ten minutes, just about all freeway driving.
when I was living in Pleasant Hill,CA I would get a ride to the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) and take it to work. It could take anywhere from 25 to 60 minutes depending on weather and glitches in the system. Started reading on BART. After I moved to San Francisco, would take MUNI (Municipal Rail System) which would take anywhere from 20 min to 45 min. depending ton weather and system problems. would read then as well. used my headphones to block out noise, listen to music while reading.
I commute 45 miles each way, mostly highway. It takes me about 1 hour most of the time.
Poor KD. Let's have a moment of silence ....
I have a 7 mile drive. There are 5 stop signs between me and work.
If I see more than one car at the first two,
I always say "what's with all the traffic??"
No speed limit on my road.
40 mph for 4 miles
30 mph for two blocks
20 mph on campus
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It takes me about 20-25 minutes, which in Phoenix is unheard of-- I may as well be living at work with such a short commute. The drive itself is pretty uneventful. However if there is an accident anywhere along the way...I'm screwed. Then my commute time could be as long as an hour to 90 minutes.
Although I do get to see mountains (which recently have had snow on them) and F-16's (soon to be F-35's)taking off in the morning and landing in the afternoon.
Although I do get to see mountains (which recently have had snow on them) and F-16's (soon to be F-35's)taking off in the morning and landing in the afternoon.
I commute about 42 miles each way and, depending on traffic, takes me anywhere from 45 minutes to 1.5 hours.
To school? About 15-20 minutes on my bike.
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http://www.slate.com/id/2295603/
Funny how having one's sentence commuted is a good thing.
Ugh, LG. I didn't need to think about that....Anyway, my commute is about 1 1/2 hours depending on traffic. Northern VA traffic is awful, especially twenty minutes from DC. I listen to a TON of audiobooks though, so it's not a total loss. And it's not as long as my commute to school was, which was 60 miles one way 5 days a week.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Long commutes cause obesity, neck pain, loneliness, divorce, stress, and insomnia.http://www.slate.com/id/2295603/"
As demonstrated by the movie Joe vs the Volcano with Tom Hanks.
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From Warrenton to Fairfax via 29 and 66.
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Oh yeah that's a bad one.
Hmmmmm Nahhhhh.
Long commutes cause obesity, I am not obese, my BMI is in the normal range.
neck pain,is caused by my work
loneliness how can you be lonely when you have books to read?,
divorce, not yet anyway
stress am not sure who is most to blame my husband or my work.,
and insomnia. started before my long commutes.
I can't blame anything of these things on my commute. If anything the commute is when I finaly get a chance to relax.
I can't blame anything of these things on my commute. If anything the commute is when I finaly get a chance to relax.
Commuting by train doesn't count, Gail. That's luxury.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Amber wrote: "From Warrenton to Fairfax via 29 and 66."Oh yeah that's a bad one."
I would really hate it if it weren't for audible.com and the library's collection of books on CD.
With normal traffic it usually takes me about 1.5 hours to get to Denver. Depending on when I leave to go home, it can take anywhere from 1.5 - 2.0 hours. I've learned to stockpile a few PTO days in case we get some good snow. That can push drive times closer to 3 hours one way. Minus the time actually driving in Denver, I enjoy the time in the car. Either I can get focused for the upcoming workday or zone out and daydream.
My commute at the moment is 1 hour by car, or 1 1/2 hours by bus. I can usually drive to work with a colleague so my commute doesn't cause loneliness :)
my commute consisits of a whole 10 or so steps down the hallway to the living room. and every step sucks!! i'm one of those people who has a hard time getting started in the morning.
I live about 12 minutes from campus. That's my commute - it's mostly a tree-lined, neighborhood, boutiquey shops and eateries, oh, and library drive. Incidentally, I live directly across from the apartments where I lived pre-roommate. :)When I was living with my roommate, I drove over the interstate and between the zoo and baseball field, also along tree-lined streets. It was only a 4 minute commute... just enough for a song.
I drive 35-40 minutes each way, and usually listen to audio books or music while driving. I mainly drive by smaller roads, and there's no way I'd take the busses/train as it would take 2½ hours each way.I pick up my kids from daycare on my way home, so that adds about 10 min.
Depending on weather & traffic anywhere from one hour to two hours. The longest was three hours in a snow storm. I used to get angry during my commutes and did find I was often stressed out by the time I got to work, but I started listening to audio books and I feel much better now.
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What's your commute like? How long does it take?
I drive, almost always by myself, the 20 to 22 minutes to work, which is almost exactly the average commute in Milwaukee according to today's newspaper. I drive about three miles to the highway, about fifteen miles south, then about a mile east/south to work. Usually I'm driving pretty early so I don't hit much traffic. If I leave after about, oh, 7:45 or so, I can hit traffic about 3/4th of the distance down the highway and lose about ten minutes.
I can't take public transportation without adding, oh, probably two hours each way onto the commute. That sucks. The only public trans from my area into the city is an express bus that goes downtown and doesn't stop near my work.
I usually work at home one day a week, but that's changed lately. I wish I could work at home more...I get a ton done at home and I save, depending on gas prices, about...maybe five bucks a non-trip.
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