Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I'm moving this weekend. Moving to the fiance's house that's farther away from the day job. My commute is going to be 37 miles or around an hour according to Google maps. My current commute is 40-45, so not a huge difference but enough to be just a little suckier. The new place is about as far as I'd want to drive each day.

So how far do you drive to work? How far is the max you'd go for any job on a daily basis?

20 Minutes.

My max limit is an hour but it depends if it involves the 405 during rush hour.

40-45 minutes to work, about an hour back home. It was longer, but I managed to move five miles closer when we bought our new house this year. The time getting there is shorter because I leave at 5:40 in the morning.

I'm pretty lucky right now, i can walk to my work in about 5 minutes, or less sometimes.

I worked at a place once where i had to drive 45 miles on winding unlit rural roads, that was not the happiest, especially when i was coming home at 1am.

Hour and a half each way.

On a bad day, can be three hours getting home.

20-25 minutes. That's about the limit of what I'm willing to do.

I work remotely.

5 seconds. :3

Though every month or so, I have a few hours in flight for travel.

I live in Elverson, and work in West Chester, its about 35 minutes each way, longer if I have to take a detour.

I walk to work, about 25 mins each way. On the occasion that I drive, with DT traffic and parking, it takes about 20 minutes.

This article points out the link between long commutes and one's health and happiness.

 Desubot wrote:

My max limit is an hour but it depends if it involves the 405 during rush hour.

F the 405! And the 605 and 10...

My commute is about 35 minutes going and 45 minutes coming back. I take surface streets and avoid the I-10 because the same 12 mile route takes over an hour on that parking lot of a freeway.

10-15 min walk or 2 minute drive.

The walk to the car takes longer than the actual driving does.

An hour or so depending on traffic - I also get to nap on the bus

8 min by car.

5 minute walk, but I use to have a long commute that got longer every year until I said screw it. That was starting to take over two hours to get home regularly.

In these responses you can really see the sprawl the US finds itself in.

About twenty minutes from my front door to my office. Can be a whole half hour if I'm teaching on the far side of campus. Terrible.

If/when looking at moving, I'd be starting to get sceptical if I was giving myself a commute of more than 45 minutes, I think. I've never had to travel more than a half hour for work so far. I did spent a semester having to spend an hour on the bus for university and it was no fun at all. I don't know how peoplewith big commutes don't go insane.

I have three routes i take to work. A route that is primairly toll way, door to door to my office is 20 miles and take 18-20 minutes. The second route that avoids the toll way is 24 miles and take 35 minutes. The third route which I only use when taking or picking up kids from school is 22 miles, but take 45 minutes because of more traffic lights.

My wife's commute used to be 22 miles, almost all of it highway, but would take 1 hour or more because of traffic. Now her commute is 26 miles, but is 35 minutes because of no traffic along the route and few stop lights.

The average commute time for my area is 28 minutes, but the deviation from average can be significant with a 1/4 of people having commutes averaging 45 minutes before and only 1/5 of people having a commute less than 14 minutes.

When I managed the local off licence my commute was 1 minute walk. I live 100 yards away. (Handy!)

My commute now is a 22 mile drive followed by 2.5 mile bike ride. Fortunately the traffic is usually light and it's over fast, pleasant country roads. The bike part is over a designated national cycle route, with almost no car traffic.

45 minutes to work and about an hour and a half home.
been going this way for about 22 years...
yeah, it sucks.

Takes me about 15 min to get to work
About 10 min to get home.

I work a swing shift so going to work in traffic, coming home its relatively light on cars.

15 min. Depends on how easy finding parking is.

I got it down to about 10-15 minutes, depending upon stop lights. Traffic is almost never an issue though. It's maybe 5-6 miles and very low-stress. The downside is that I live in a crappy residential neighborhood and not the swank downtown loft that I used to have.

40-45 min.

Against trafic, so it’s mostly smooth sailing. Feel sorry for the guys heading the other direction.

I might move up closer to my job. It’s not the length of the drive that gets me, but the gas in the tank. Cost of living is also a bit less up there. Downside is it’s farther from the FLGS.

Due to my divorce I needed to get a place to live before a job (as being a stay at home dad was no longer viable). picked a place to the south, more centrally located for jobs. Then got a job to the north. Oh well.

A bit over an hour in crappy Melbourne traffic. Worst. Drivers. Ever.

If I go at time which avoids traffic it's more like ~45 minutes. Sometimes my work allows me to choose my hours, other times not.

About an hour to get to University, via public transport. I've never tried to drive there, but I'd guess at 1-1.5 hrs.

Transport's far more reliable, no traffic jams, cheaper then petrol and gives me time to do stuff instead of swearing at the idiots on the road.

Work is 10 minutes drive.

Some of my other stuff (volunteering, the like) is from 15min to 30-35min drive either way.

Our Freeway sucks for heading north, starting about 20km from the city, although coming back it's pretty good.

 Farseer Anath'lan wrote:
About an hour to get to University, via public transport. I've never tried to drive there, but I'd guess at 1-1.5 hrs.

Transport's far more reliable, no traffic jams, cheaper then petrol and gives me time to do stuff instead of swearing at the idiots on the road.

Work is 10 minutes drive.

Some of my other stuff (volunteering, the like) is from 15min to 30-35min drive either way.

Our Freeway sucks for heading north, starting about 20km from the city, although coming back it's pretty good.

Which city do you live in? Melbourne's public transport sucks unless you just want to get in and out of the city. The radial arrangement of the train lines means for me to get to work would take me twice as long as driving (about 2 hours vs 1 hour) not including delays and whatnot. Because I'd have to go almost all the way in to the city then catch a connecting train back out again. There's buses but they're not much faster than the trains, looping around the suburbs instead, and they don't leave early enough for me to make it to an early morning meeting anyway.

It also wouldn't be much cheaper, it costs me $7 in petrol (and that's driving my old inefficient carbureted car), a train ticket would end up costing $8.20 because I'd need both a zone 1 and zone 2 to get in to the city and back out again to my work.

 Nevelon wrote:

I might move up closer to my job. It’s not the length of the drive that gets me, but the gas in the tank.

Always terrfying to read someone in the US's complaints about petrol prices!

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Farseer Anath'lan wrote:
About an hour to get to University, via public transport. I've never tried to drive there, but I'd guess at 1-1.5 hrs.

Transport's far more reliable, no traffic jams, cheaper then petrol and gives me time to do stuff instead of swearing at the idiots on the road.

Work is 10 minutes drive.

Some of my other stuff (volunteering, the like) is from 15min to 30-35min drive either way.

Our Freeway sucks for heading north, starting about 20km from the city, although coming back it's pretty good.

Which city do you live in? Melbourne's public transport sucks unless you just want to get in and out of the city. The radial arrangement of the train lines means for me to get to work would take me twice as long as driving (about 2 hours vs 1 hour) not including delays and whatnot. Because I'd have to go almost all the way in to the city then catch a connecting train back out again. There's buses but they're not much faster than the trains, looping around the suburbs instead, and they don't leave early enough for me to make it to an early morning meeting anyway.

It also wouldn't be much cheaper, it costs me $7 in petrol (and that's driving my old inefficient carbureted car), a train ticket would end up costing $8.20 because I'd need both a zone 1 and zone 2 to get in to the city and back out again to my work.

Perth-and yeah, we've got a radial arrangement as well, so it does suck to get from 1 leg to another (to the Gov.-hurry up and build a rim line already)-to get to relative's places is almost 2hrs public transport vs 30min drive.

That being said, I can catch the one spoke of the radius, and the campus is ~4km from the line, so it's easily walkable, or bus. So, same as Melbourne, it's good for directly in or out of the CBD. From what I experienced over there, though, our transport is faster, and it's definitely cheaper.

As to cost, I can get 650km/$40 petrol from my car, so ~16km/$1. Campus is ~30km, so ~$2 petrol either way. With Smartrider discount, Student concession and Autoload discount, it's $1.95 either way for me-the time I have free on the train, plus not having to drive (stress), means public transport's definitely the better option for me to get to Uni.

Most of my other travel is car though-quite far from the mainlines, or on other spokes, makes driving a damnsight faster.

Just under 1.5 miles. Just about enough time to listen to one song on the radio.

15 miles, takes me about 25 minutes at the time I go in. Used to start work half an hour earlier, and the journey would take me an hour then.

About half an hour.