Commuting to work - how long?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

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[no one 0]

Recently received my EAD, so am currently looking for work...

Last year, I commuted over an hour (approx 70-80 min) to work each day to work, and the same distance back home. That was on top of 12-15 hrs work days (I was a first year high school teacher, with a steep learning curve to climb). It was the most exhausting experience of my life.

Now I've promised myself that I'd find work that's LESS than an hr's drive away. If I can have my way, the job would be within walking/biking distance *dreams* This is going to cut down on the number of job opportunities drastically especially since the big city -- San Francisco -- is an hour's drive away (longer with rush hour traffic), but it'll be worth my sanity.

[Marilyn. 340]

I answered for my hubby...

his commute is less then 15 minutes.... I wouldn't want his commute to be more then 30 minutes....

[Welshcookie 17]

Well in the summer I walk so it takes me 45 mins...during the winter it is bus time and it takes 20 mins at the most. I prefer the summer routine even tho it is longer cos I lose weight and there is no waiting about.....and it is free of course

[ELW 5]

My commute is 8-10 minutes straight on the freeway. I'd probably turn down any commute longer than 20 min, but I answered 30. No amount of money is worth taking so much time out of my day - and I need to be close in case anything happens to my car! If I did happen to get a GREAT offer far from where I live, I would of course get an apartment that is closer! Like you echomyst, I wish upon a star that I get a great job within walking/biking distance! I'm working on it...

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Well in the summer I walk so it takes me 45 mins...during the winter it is bus time and it takes 20 mins at the most. I prefer the summer routine even tho it is longer cos I lose weight and there is no waiting about.....and it is free of course

How many miles? Just curious. I can't imagine walking 45 minutes to work, but that may be because my walk would be across highways and through a dilapidated industrial park lol. I assume your walk is pleasant.

[Mary Lou 681]

I travel 19 miles oneway to work and most of that is on a highway so its not too bad. Except in winter, travelling the less travelled roads to get to the highway can be a nightmare as the snow and ice isnt cleared very well.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I am impressed. So far 55% of all respondents have commutes of 15 minutes or less. I posted this poll because I was reading an article on "extreme commuters", people who commute more than 90 minutes one way. Apparently, aboput 5% of workers in New Jersey qualify. It's nice to see so many people with comfortable commutes

[Kez/JWolf 6]

I live 6 1/2 miles away from work... but it takes me almost a hour to get there... hate the commute.

Kez

[LaL 418]

i live 26 miles from work which in Tampa-time = 1.5 hours... i hate it. i hate it. i hate it.

hubby either works from home or travels.

[KarenCee 3]

I drive about 10 minutes to work. Joel drives about 20. Neither of us would want to drive more than 30.

[sparkofcreation 0]

You know "60 minutes" and "1 hour" are the same thing, right?

If I leave the house at 7:20 I get to work between 7:45-7:50. If I leave the house at 7:25 I get to work at 8:00-8:05. I drop G. off at his job on the way to mine. I usually leave at 5:05-5:10 and get home at 5:30-5:40.

I lived in New Jersey for years and my commute there varied from 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes but I did take the train for most of that time and loved it. Here I have to drive, if I take the bus then my commute is over an hour.

I think 45 minutes driving is my limit but I'd go a bit over an hour if I could take the train.

Oh, and Gupt, if you think New Jersey is bad, you've never seen Albuquerque's rush hour. Luckily I live on the opposite side of the city from most people so I miss most of the traffic (well, I can get from my house to my job or vice-versa in 15 minutes if I'm not driving at rush hour, but it's still not too bad), but I took the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway every day for years and I've still never seen anything like I-25 northbound and I-40 westbound during the evening rush. (Of course, I worked in Newark, so I'm not talking about the traffic entering NYC, just within NJ itself.)

[SoL. 0]

I take the bus to work and between stops it can take at least 45 minutes to get there. I don't mind because I can read a nice book .

Edited February 11, 2007 by Sol-de-Verano

[Savanphil 3]

It take me about 1/2 hour to 45 minutes, to get to work.

[Cassie 8]

Right now it takes me 15 mins to get to work, Jerry's drive takes 20-30, depending on the traffic.

He almost had a job that would have involved an hour commute one way, but the pay would have been sweet. fortunately, he found a job a little closer to home -- considering the ice storms we've had lately, it's a blessing!