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About 15 minutes or so now, through regular business streets (6 miles to work).
Before I moved, it was about 35 miles each way, with traffic and all could take almost an hour to get to work. Not a whole lot of distance but it sucked.
About 15 minutes or so now, through regular business streets (6 miles to work).
Before I moved, it was about 35 miles each way, with traffic and all could take almost an hour to get to work. Not a whole lot of distance but it sucked.
Always try to be close to work nowadays.
I am at the 35 miles now...hopefully will go back to 15 mins one day.
Smaller towns if you can swing it. Even if you do commute it isn't as bad.
At Home Office: 10 minutes: Up, clothes on, dogs out, pee, dog food in bowls, dogs in, pet cat, sit at keyboard.
At Local Coffee Shop: The usual 10 + another 15 to get to the coffee shop and get situated.
At The Office: 8 hours, 3 in the air, 3 in airports, and 1 to get a car and drive to the office
My commute is 45-50 minutes each way: 20-30 via transit on the bus or train. 15-20 minutes to walk from the bus or train station.
Driving to work would be the same in the morning and 15-30 minutes more in the evening but parking would cost ~$20 a day (garage rent is $350/mo).
It is cheaper and less stressful to take transit. I used to drive to work 35 miles, about 45 min in the AM and 60 or more on the way home. It was annoying.
Based on your article, i could afford an extra $150k-160k on a home. My metro us expensive. My rent would increase by 2.5x or so if i moved within a mile of work. Housing prices are closer to 3x. Way more than $150k more. More like 300-500k more
I commute cross-country by plane, and on standby status on top of that. It's stressful and time consuming. I usually lose at least a half-day off getting to work, and then the same coming back home. I do this an average of once per week though, so I don't have a daily commute at least.
For example, this week, I have to be on location for work at 4am Thurs. morning. I will head to the airport mid-day tomorrow, Wednesday, to give myself several flights (chances) to get there in time since I travel stand-by. So I basically lose a day off plus a night at home.
About 10 minutes from the time I get into my car and then park it at my job. I am lucky because I am heading the opposite direction of the morning rush hour traffic and also opposite the evening rush hour traffic. Every day I see the traffic backed up solid in the direction opposite of the way I am going, but I breeze right along.
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