How long is a commute to work too long?

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Mine is an hour to the airport, an hour waiting to board, an hour to 1.5hr flight, then another 15 mins or so to get to my destination. Rinse and repeat at the end of the day. Makes for a long week.
 
CREMSteve said:
Mine is an hour to the airport, an hour waiting to board, an hour to 1.5hr flight, then another 15 mins or so to get to my destination. Rinse and repeat at the end of the day. Makes for a long week.
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You spend 6.5-7.5 hours a day to get to and from your job?
 
Hell, I'm only about a 30 min walk/15 min bus-subway commute to work and I feel that's already too long sometimes.

But my GF has been driving two hours in the morning and at night (so four hours) to get to her job and I can't even fucking imagine having to do that.
 
I commute in 15-20 minutes depending on the traffic, and I think anything more than 45 minutes would be too long.

CREMSteve said:
Mine is an hour to the airport, an hour waiting to board, an hour to 1.5hr flight, then another 15 mins or so to get to my destination. Rinse and repeat at the end of the day. Makes for a long week.
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This is insane.
 
1.5 hours each way, but half of that is on a (very relaxing) train. I'm also able to WFH when I need/want to, so I'm not always in the office five days a week.
 
Being from Southern California, a 1 hour commute is pretty standard. I have a few coworkers that drive 2 hours to work..
 
BashNasty said:
If a commute is over 30 minutes, it's too long for me.
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I didn't read the entire thread, but in case no one else mentioned:

All througout history as far back as the Romans, 30 minutes has been the point where a "commute" becomes uncomfortable. This is why speeding up commute times is a fruitless endeavor. If you make it faster to travel, traffic is not allieviated, as people will simply move farther away from their destination.
 
Less than 15 steps...

If driving, I can do 45-60min if it's just driving (ie long distance, no traffic. With traffic, no more than 30min...
 
And I thought my commute was long, seeing hour plus ones seems dreadful. Mine is 40-50 minutes depending on traffic... But winter is coming so it will get worse.. Luckily I have the option to work at home some of the time so I will leverage that during the tough commute days in winter until I move to a closer location next year.

I would say some days when it took me an hour and a half to get home I almost went crazy (stop and go traffic for a while), but then google maps helped me found a route that is at a maximum 1 hour back.. So now the commute is tolerable..
 
My commute is about 5 minutes, ~1.7 miles. I usually bike.

Previously, I commuted ~45 minutes, and for a short while ~2 hours (each way).

I really, really appreciate living close to work now. Don't think I could ever go back to that long of a commute.
 
There were kids who lived 2 hours from my high school and it blew my mind that they made it in alive at 7:30am each day. It was a great school, but not 2 hours great.
 
If you need to drive it's probably too long. If you can't walk or bike or take a subway or bus it's probably too long. If you have to consider what to bring (book, game, food) for your commute it's probably too long. If you can't be in your home chilling after a long day at work without first having to sit in traffic with all the other chumps it's probably too long.
 
from my door to my office is about 1 hr, sometimes a bit more, like 70 min. i take the train though, which is a lot less stressful than driving, especially in LA.
 
I don't know, for the longest of time (Like 7 years) I traveled 1 hour every morning and afternoon but I REALLY loved that time because I used to listen to music / read books / study or just talk to people on the bus.
 
My longest commute was about 20 minutes by car, and that honestly kind of sucked. I am spoiled now, living 7 minutes from work (thanks to Google Now for keeping track). And I plan to move right down the street from work soon.
 
CREMSteve said:
Mine is an hour to the airport, an hour waiting to board, an hour to 1.5hr flight, then another 15 mins or so to get to my destination. Rinse and repeat at the end of the day. Makes for a long week.
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What in the holy hell, that's so much of your life being wasted. What do you do?
My commute is 15-20 minutes by car which is fine with me. I used to do 2 hours each way with car for 55 minutes and the rest train. It was awful.
 
dc3k said:
My commute is a 10 minute bike ride followed by a 5 minute walk. Or a 30 minute walk if I don't feel like biking. That's as long as I'd like it to be. I used to sit on a bus for over an hour each day and it was terrible. I can't imagine having to spend an hour or more of my day on the subway/streetcar/bus to get to work anymore. Driving would probably be even worse.
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Wait, why don't you bike those last 5 minutes as well?

My commute's either

- ~40-60m by car through the city
- ~45m by public transport + 10ish minutes walk
- ~1:15h by bike

drove by bike two times this week, it's a legit nice path leading through city stuff, along the waterside and through parks, I'm dealing way better than I thought I would. Will probably keep it up for the summer, on days I won't go to the gym.

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rhandino said:
I don't know, for the longest of time (Like 7 years) I traveled 1 hour every morning and afternoon but I REALLY loved that time because I used to listen to music / read books / study or just talk to people on the bus.
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totally this. It's actually a great relaxation time before/after the actual work day
 
I commute about 45 minutes to work each day, so about 1.5 hours both ways.

I had a TA once in college. I went to UT Austin. She lived in Dallas. She commuted 3 times a week for that one class. I have no idea why.

for those without reference, that's a 200 mile drive, 3 hours one-way.

She was driving 18 hours a week.
 
Krejlooc said:
I commute about 45 minutes to work each day, so about 1.5 hours both ways.

I had a TA once in college. I went to UT Austin. She lived in Dallas. She commuted 3 times a week for that one class. I have no idea why.

for those without reference, that's a 200 mile drive, 3 hours one-way.

She was driving 18 hours a week.
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I knew a guy who commuted from Petersburg, VA to Washington, D.C. 5 days a week. That's 2 hours each way if there is no traffic. There is always traffic. He'd leave super early and super late to try to avoid rush hour, but it wasn't uncommon for it to take him 3 hours.

He did it because he had a kid with his girlfriend and her parents lived in Petersburg, so they had a support network there. Also, D.C. salary goes a lot further.

He made it almost a year before he fell asleep behind the wheel and flipped his SUV on the interstate. Luckily no one else was hurt, he was slightly banged up but nothing serious. He did the sane thing and got a job in Richmond after that.
 
I see people moaning about 45min journeys and I want to throw up, currently doing 2hrs each way....

I wish I did 45 mins...
 
I used to do 1 hour each way for 14 years. I got really feed up with it.

My mate is 2 hours each way on a train. That's 4 hours a day. I don't know how he does it. It would drive me mad.

I'm 20/25 mins each way now. It's awesome.
 
Depends on where you work and where you want to live or, more to the point, where you can afford to live.

I love living in a house. Fuck apartments. But I want to have this bitch paid off early. My job is in the city. Therefore the only affordable house I can afford is 50km from work along a motorway that's often congested. Luckily I have some flexible work hours to get around it, but it means waking up at 4.

Unfortunately, Sydney public transport being what it is, I'm forced to drive, otherwise my commute would stretch from 1 hour each way to 2.
 
My commute is an hour, and to be fair that's beyond the line of "I'm okay with this".

That's two hours a day, 10 hours a week just pissed away. Fortunately the travel expenses get paid.
 
Currently it's 10 mins by bicycle plus waiting for my house's as well as the office's elevator. My limit would be around 35 mins door to door.
 
I used to have a 2 hour commute each way (so 4 hours a day) for about 3 years. Yeah it sucked.

Now it's 30-40 minutes. My limit nowadays would be 1 hour.
 
CREMSteve said:
Mine is an hour to the airport, an hour waiting to board, an hour to 1.5hr flight, then another 15 mins or so to get to my destination. Rinse and repeat at the end of the day. Makes for a long week.
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I'd like to hear more about why you do this.
 
My commute to college was 3 hours each way, 2 buses if I was lucky, more likely 3. Even if I got up insanely early to beat the rush hour traffic, I never made it in less than 2 hours. Not worth it.
 
An hour's alright, I live in Seoul everywhere is an hour away.

I remember the idea of being 15 minutes from work when I was a single graduate, and I'd sign a new rental contract after each new job. But now I want to raise a kid in my well-located apartment, I have a <2hr radius for work.
 
entirely depends on traffic. On a good day, 20-25 minutes. Average, 40 - 50 mins. Terrible days 1-1.5 hours.

If it rains then it's guaranteed to be a terrible day.
 
My drive to work, from the Chicago suburbs into the city, is about an hour each way, sometimes longer depending on traffic/weather. (With no traffic it's 25 minutes.) I can zone out and listen to podcasts and such, but after doing this for years it's starting to get to me. The idea of a 30m commute is too awesome to even imagine.
 
Any more than 30 minutes each way would be taking too much of my day. If a job were worth it and was further I would move. I'd prefer 15 minutes or less.
 
If the metro area of my city actually had competent and decent public transportation, then I would say anything over 30 minutes would be too much. Since it doesn't, I'll say anything over 45 minutes.
 
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