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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 2440581" data-attributes="member: 1515">I'm with you, Kid.  I work in downtown Chicago (about 4 blocks from the Water Tower), and live in the western suburbs.  If traffic weren't an issue, it'd be about a 20-25 minute drive.  (As if!)  So, I drive 10 minutes to the L (subway), and take that downtown.  Commute winds up being just over an hour door-to-door.I've been doing this commute (in various forms, through 3 different jobs and 4 different homes) for 16 years now.  If it weren't for mass transit, I probably would be in jail now, because I would have killed someone if I had to drive every day. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  (Those few days when I do have to drive, due to meetings outside of downtown, are often very frustrating.)I know that, some day, I'll be moving away from Chicago, and back to Wisconsin....and the insane traffic here is one reason why.  But, for now, there are very few places where I can do what I do, and so I'm here.Queen D, I feel for you, as you're in an area that's even more congested, from a traffic standpoint, than here.  (If your commute includes needing to cross the Potomac, then I feel for you even more...I have friends who had to do that for a few years, and it was heinous.)</blockquote>

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