Commute Times

Corduroyboy
Corduroyboy Posts: 1,256
edited December 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I grew up in a small upstate NY town and no one I knew had a commute time of more than 20 minutes. Then I move out west to California and quickly learned of people commuting over an hour and a half, each way!! I am now one of those crazy people. Almost 3 hours a freaking day driving!! So much fun after a 12 hour day.

So what's your commute times? I know some of you have to have some brutal commutes.
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  • Black Diamond
    Black Diamond Posts: 25,109
    Corduroyboy wrote:
    I grew up in a small upstate NY town and no one a commute time of more than 20 minutes. Then I move out west to California and quickly learned of people commuting over an hour and a half, each way!! I am now one of those crazy people. Almost 3 hours a freaking day driving!! So much fun after a 12 hour day.

    So what's your commute times? I know some of you have to have some brutal commutes.

    Same as you, ugh. Except I take bus now. Gas prices and such.

    Take a 6:45 Bus (after driving 10 min to it), get in office at 8:15

    and same on way home.
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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    I plain and simply couldn't exist where I had any kind of traffic ridden commute. Seriously, people would die. I'll stick to riding my bike.
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  • comebackwoman
    comebackwoman Posts: 7,271
    an hour each way...but it's straight down the expressway and typically no traffic. Sometimes I hate it, but most of the time I like having the time to clear my head before and after work
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  • angie76
    angie76 Posts: 646
    My office moved recently and Im actually closer to work now. Not that my commute before was long but now it's more of a straight run. A lot of my coworkers weren't so lucky and have to drive an or hour or so.

    But 3 hours a day is crazy.
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  • celebration
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    1 hour

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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,168
    approx one hour and 10 mins each way door to door
  • polaris
    polaris Posts: 3,527
    15 mins by bike (April - November)
    20 mins transit (December - March)
  • PJSerf
    PJSerf Posts: 637
    Approx 1 hour each way... 23 miles, so a lot of it is in traffic. :(
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  • EvilMerlin
    EvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    When I'm in my office back in CA my apartment is about 10-15 minutes from work. I moved there so I'm not on the 5/55/405/22 at anytime because of work. It's worth the increase in rent because of the city I lived in. So much more free time and more people get to live at the same time. :)

    I purposely looked at places where side streets were my basic route to and from work. Sadly I'm on the other side of the freeway, but once I cross the freeway and get past the rushed traffic of everyone trying to get on, then it's smooth sailing...until I hit those god damn mother fucking red lights when there's no cross traffic!

    Oh....sorry...so much for the less stress part! :p
  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    i'm fortunate i'm not far from work! takes 30 minutes with 2 buses. if i drove it'd take 15 minutes tops, but easier to bus it and cheaper too since my work offers a subsidy for the bus pass :)
  • iamsampj
    iamsampj Posts: 784
    right now it takes me about 10 minutes with red lights...i wanted an apartment close to work. it's a bit expensive, but whatevs.

    i'm scared of the drive time when i move though!! i've only heard horror stories about seattle traffic, but hopefully i'll be going against traffic when traveling to work north of the city. i have plenty of time before i really have to worry about that though :) oh well...if i can survive the random orlando traffic, i'll think seattle will be a piece of cake ;)
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  • EvilMerlin
    EvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    iamsampj wrote:
    right now it takes me about 10 minutes with red lights...i wanted an apartment close to work. it's a bit expensive, but whatevs.

    i'm scared of the drive time when i move though!! i've only heard horror stories about seattle traffic, but hopefully i'll be going against traffic when traveling to work north of the city. i have plenty of time before i really have to worry about that though :) oh well...if i can survive the random orlando traffic, i'll think seattle will be a piece of cake ;)

    When I got to Seattle I was worried too, but it's actually not bad at all. I enjoyed it. It was a piece of cake.

    However...then I realized I live 5 minutes away from the most congested freeway in the United States and have driven that weekly the last 8 years of my life. So I might be a bit biased to thinking anything is easier. :p
  • ryan198
    ryan198 Posts: 1,015
    I used to drive between 45-1.15 to College Park, now I drive 7-10 minutes (about two songs on the ipod) to Towson. Obviously the latter is sweet.
  • iamsampj
    iamsampj Posts: 784
    EvilMerlin wrote:
    When I got to Seattle I was worried too, but it's actually not bad at all. I enjoyed it. It was a piece of cake.

    However...then I realized I live 5 minutes away from the most congested freeway in the United States and have driven that weekly the last 8 years of my life. So I might be a bit biased to thinking anything is easier. :p
    when i visited a couple months ago it wasn't too bad...i think i'll be fine. it's a good thing i don't mind driving. now i just have to get myself back into the routine of leaving my house early for work...i've become spoiled by being able to leave 15 minutes before i have to work. and that's including my stop at starbucks for delicious chai tea :D
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  • vedder_soup
    vedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    45 mins on the train and then a 20 minute walk.
    I live on the edge of Sydney and work sort of near the middle, hence the walk!

    with traffic it would take longer than that to drive
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  • jecica
    jecica Posts: 954
    The other morning, when I was walking up the stairs, the cat was in the way. I had to step over him and then proceed. Took my like an extra 2 seconds...

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  • EvilMerlin
    EvilMerlin Posts: 1,865
    iamsampj wrote:
    when i visited a couple months ago it wasn't too bad...i think i'll be fine. it's a good thing i don't mind driving. now i just have to get myself back into the routine of leaving my house early for work...i've become spoiled by being able to leave 15 minutes before i have to work. and that's including my stop at starbucks for delicious chai tea :D

    Aww, yeah, being so close to work definitely spoiled me as well! When I move back to CA in a couple of weeks where I'll be staying until I get my own apartment again is about a 30-45 minute drive from my new office. So I'll have to get into that routine as well for a little while. Ugh, I'm already dreading it. :p
  • iamsampj
    iamsampj Posts: 784
    EvilMerlin wrote:
    Aww, yeah, being so close to work definitely spoiled me as well! When I move back to CA in a couple of weeks where I'll be staying until I get my own apartment again is about a 30-45 minute drive from my new office. So I'll have to get into that routine as well for a little while. Ugh, I'm already dreading it. :p
    i'm sure the fact that you are back in cali will make it somewhat tolerable :D hooray for you making it back down to the sunshine!!
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  • pateljam
    pateljam Posts: 340
    20 minutes, on a bad day a half hour. I refuse to work more than 20 miles from home...
    I could make more $$$ if I went into downtown LA or even the OC, but its not worth the stress of having to drive on the Freeways that long...
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  • pearljamjen
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    iamsampj wrote:
    right now it takes me about 10 minutes with red lights...i wanted an apartment close to work. it's a bit expensive, but whatevs.

    i'm scared of the drive time when i move though!! i've only heard horror stories about seattle traffic, but hopefully i'll be going against traffic when traveling to work north of the city. i have plenty of time before i really have to worry about that though :) oh well...if i can survive the random orlando traffic, i'll think seattle will be a piece of cake ;)

    When I lived in Seattle I lived on Capitol Hill and I didn't have a car. It was great! I could walk everywhere I needed to go...and when I felt like going further out I could just hop on the bus!

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