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This thread hits home. I bought a house paid in cash in a town that I missed really bad after I moved to Seattle. I was starting a new job even further than Seattle and ended up driving 4-5 hours a day round trip, depending on traffic. That was then, it would be much worse now given the population increase.
After I was proven the first few months into the job, I was allowed to work from home a lot. I ended up working from home 3 days a week. Not everyone was allowed to do this, we had some people who tried matching my exact WFH days and quickly got recalled because of their performance issues, even prior to starting WFH...
In any case, I was always a long commuter, but not THIS long. Prior to that it was typically 2-2.5 hours a day round trip. I will say, even though the commute was long, the job was initially enjoyable and a good place to work. I liked the house and all the entertainment I had available to me, my old haunts from my 20's.
Eventually the job turned to crap and I left, for a better paying job close to my house at the time. I've since moved on, but my point is the commute is not as big a factor as the work environment and compensation, not to mention what I'm going home to. For me, it was a better job than I had previously, and I lived in a house for the first time in my life. To top it off it was paid for and with a paid off place it would only cost me 1K a month to live.
For me personally, I would commute an hour max per way. You need to be able to broaden your job search. Anything at 30 min max is hard to do because there's barely any jobs to apply to.
I don't normally like driving any more than 20-30 min to work & so far, I've only had to drive that far for the most part. However, I recently got a job that takes 1.5 - 1.75 hrs EACH WAY to work!!! It's only part-time, which helps, but not the easiest drive either & I have to go quite a ways on the surface streets as well. When I had to drive there for my job interview, the fwy was good & it took 45 min, so I guess that was a fluke! I thought about whether I still wanted to continue w/ the job & I guess I will because I figured the pros & cons of it all. Yes, I hate the drive, but what can you do?
The job will last for the next 1.5 yrs at the least & I need it for a requirement AFTER graduating w/ my degree.
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For a decade I could walk, it was great.
Now its an hour, which stinks, but there is no where I consider really livable any closer.
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