How long is your commute to work?

Erica0718
Erica0718 Posts: 469 Member
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Currently 25 mins, considering a 60 min comute for a better position and pay
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  • So_Much_Fab
    So_Much_Fab Posts: 1,146 Member
    It used to be 7 minutes until I moved last year, now it's a half hour.
  • jaeone
    jaeone Posts: 649 Member
    My commute is 1 hour and 6 minutes one way with no traffic. My husband drives about the same. Only he drives through a tunnel with a toll. We've both made this drive for over 10 years. We love where we live, love where we work!! No plans to move!!
  • no_russian
    no_russian Posts: 893 Member
    15 min walk or 2 min drive
  • BehindtheMic
    BehindtheMic Posts: 1,741 Member
    30 min drive. It used to be 45 mins
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
    about 30 minute drive each way but at the end of October I'll be working from home
  • YF92
    YF92 Posts: 2,893 Member
    Car. No other means really. 10 mins
  • chivalryder
    chivalryder Posts: 4,391 Member
    15 minute on quiet urban streets. Used to be 30-45 minutes on busy highways.

    Also, 1 hour bicycle ride.

    Any more than 30 minutes driving is too far IMO. You're wasting two hours of your day, sitting on your *kitten*, spending money and doing nothing.

    Imagine what you could do in thse two hours of every day.
  • kshadows
    kshadows Posts: 1,315 Member
    9 minute walk or 2 minute drive. I'm going to miss it when I move!
  • pinklark
    pinklark Posts: 49 Member
    10 min drive
  • branflakes1980
    branflakes1980 Posts: 2,516 Member
    6 minutes if I hit the 2 red lights on the way. :drinker:
  • snoringcat
    snoringcat Posts: 131 Member
    8 minute bike ride
  • sheepysaccount
    sheepysaccount Posts: 608 Member
    5.4 km, or 10 minutes by car through the town at "rush hour".
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    About an hour to an hour and a half or more depending on traffic. Coming home is about 45 min to an hour.
  • sullus
    sullus Posts: 2,839 Member
    about 30 minute drive each way but at the end of October I'll be working from home

    Salem?
  • zdyb23456
    zdyb23456 Posts: 1,706 Member
    I leave the house just before 7 am and get to work at 8:10 am.... that is after dropping 2 little ones at the sitter's house, then the 5 year old at school, then driving to work...
  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
    I worked from home for 9 years, now I have a 22.5 mile commute, takes about 25 minutes, one traffic light. I love the drive, but hate the "wasted" hour every day.
  • 00Allie00
    00Allie00 Posts: 243 Member
    Really lucky. 5 minute walk to my gym where I teach.
  • bugaboo_sue
    bugaboo_sue Posts: 552 Member
    However long it takes me to get down my stairs :tongue:
  • pobalita
    pobalita Posts: 741 Member
    1:15 on the way to work. 1:30 on the way home. 38 miles each way.

    With almost 3 hours per day in the car, I get most of my weekday runs in during my lunch hour.
  • crimsonjewel_sc
    crimsonjewel_sc Posts: 1 Member
    I'm 20 miles from my office and I work on an island. When I first started working there, my commute was 30 minutes, with traffic. Fast forward six years and it takes over an hour to get to and from work. If there is an accident on any of the bridges, it will take much longer. I love where I live, I love my job, I absolutely detest my commute!! I've considered moving, but I'm priced out of the neighborhoods near my office, and the ones I can afford, have terrible schools.
  • coolraul07
    coolraul07 Posts: 1,606 Member
    Currently a 5-day teleworker, so just a walk to my home office downstairs. On the rare occasion I need to go onsite (like yesterday), it's about 20-25 min from my driveway to the parking deck entrance. But between finding a spot, walking across the street, going through man-traps and security checks, etc., I have to tack on another 15 min.
    I've been lucky that the longest regular commute I've every had in my working life was 45 min each way. But then again, that was a weekend job as a teenager and I took surface streets to avoid tolls. 1+hour commutes are a foreign concept to me but I know a LOT of people who do them. I know one guy who regularly does 2+ hours each way! Heaven help him.
  • Building_Bulk
    Building_Bulk Posts: 20,596 Member
    Maybe 5 seconds if my dog is in my way. Work from a home office.
  • Pipsg1rl
    Pipsg1rl Posts: 1,414 Member
    Oh, Houston how I love/loathe thee.

    No HOV, leaving after 6am - 45-1hr.
    With HOV, leaving after 6:30 - same as above.

    With/without HOV leaving between 5:30-5:45 - 30-45 minutes.

    Add 10-15 for rain.

    Subtract 5-7 for summer vacation months.

    Add 10 for M-Th School in/College days.
  • caracrawford1
    caracrawford1 Posts: 657 Member
    Used to be two hours. Now, it shouldn't have taken two hours at only forty miles, but this was Los Angeles traffic. It really is that bad. I was coming from long beach (Belmont shore, across from the beach) going to Beverly hills.
    Now I go to Irvine and its a 20 mile commute, 25 mins.
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    However long it takes me to pour a cup of coffee and sit at my desk... working from home has it's advantages
  • StarChanger
    StarChanger Posts: 605 Member
    Used to be 45mins @ 75mph, one way. As of Tuesday, it became 3 min by car, <5 walking, 0.25miles away. (Basically, I live at the top of a hill, and my office is at the bottom.)

    WIN!!!!!
  • keefmac
    keefmac Posts: 313 Member
    5min walk to take the kids to school then 10/15min bike ride to work (3miles). I hate been stuck in traffic, would be 1/2 hour or mor by car..
  • climbing_trees
    climbing_trees Posts: 726 Member
    30 minutes. that is too long!!! i waste an entire hour of my day in the car (longer if there's traffic)
  • lizzybathory
    lizzybathory Posts: 229
    30 minutes, 6.5 miles one way. By bicycle. I get in an hour of exercise every day, just going to and from work... and it only takes 20 minutes longer every day than if I drove. Plus I save $5 every day I don't pay for parking. Win win win!
  • QAPmom
    QAPmom Posts: 458 Member
    35 miles but my husband and I work at the same place, then he runs our 7 year old into town 5 miles for daycare/school drop off once he drops me off.

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