Commuting sucks.

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Well - I'm from a town where you can get anywhere in essentially 10 minutes. Any farther than that and you are leaving the city limits.

Now I live in the Washington, DC metro area and it sucks. Before we moved to Silver Spring, MD (from Alexandria, VA), I could catch the 8:33am train, the 8:42 bus, and make it to work by 9. Now that we have relocated, I have to make the 7:25 bus to make the 8:01 train all in hopes of making the 8:42 bus to work again! (which - this morning I didn't. It was nice out, so the walk from the train station to work wasn't *so* bad... but it's still highly annoying!)

I've moved 20 miles or so and my commute has inflated from 30 minutes (which is very short for the area) to over 1.5 hours!

Do you commute? How long does it take you? What's the absolute longest commute you'd be willing to put up with?

Rant with me!!

 

[DaveMage]

Sorry, I won't rant with you (though I agree a long commute sucks).

The distance from my home to my work: 4 miles.

Time: 10 minutes

Time if I actually catch the 5 lights green: 5 minutes

Life is good.

 

[Belen]

My drive takes 25 minutes in the mornings and 40 in the afternoons. I wish I could do something that would reduce the time, yet I will not live in the same city where I work. The crime rate and number of gangs in Durham is horrible!

 

[reveal]

I'm with DaveMage. It's 6 miles from my home to my office. My wife works a mile away, so her office is 5 miles. It takes 15 minutes to get from my place to my office.

 

[IronWolf]

Seven minutes, tops. No traffic lights!

 

[dshai527]

I feel for you. I just ended a job where I commuted to work. On a good day it was only an hour, but with Cincinnati traffic it was more often than not 1.5-2 hrs with my longest haul being 3.5 hours to get to work. When my daughter was born I said no more and now I have a job that is only 5 minutes away from my house.

The worst part is that when you get home you feel to drained to enjoy the rest of your day so you feel that the weekdays are a bust and you try to cram everything into your weekends and then you don't enjoy them.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

The worst part is that when you get home you feel to drained to enjoy the rest of your day so you feel that the weekdays are a bust and you try to cram everything into your weekends and then you don't enjoy them.

That is definately the worst part. I will not get home until nearly 7pm in our current location.

Luckily - it's only temporary. When the school year starts up, I only have to be in the office for 4 hours on Tuesday and I do the rest of my work from home. That means: No Commute!

 

[Dominic]

I feel your pain - my commutes is about an hour each way. If I drove it would only be 40 min in the AM, but 75 min in the PM. Taking the bus means a little more time overall, but that time is mine since I dont have to deal with driving. I can get a lot of reading, game planning, or more likely sleeping in that hour. It also means I'm more relaxed and friendlier when I get home, as opposed to ticked off at the number of stupid drivers out there.

I do it because I love my job, and my wifes work is less than a mile from home.

Commuting sucks, but you do what you have to, and improve your situation when you can.

 

[der_kluge]

I'm about 6 miles from work. When I graduated college, and got my first job, I managed to buy a house 1.1 miles away from the Wal-Mart corporate offices (yes, Bentonville *is* that small of a town). I had a 30 minute commute with my second job, but it was mostly highway, so not too bad. And I went left at 8, so there was no traffic.

Having just drove through the mess that is D.C./Baltimore yesterday, I feel your pain. No way in hell would I want to live/work in that mess.

 

[The_Universe]

I want flying cars driven by robots. That would solve all of our problems!