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Totally read this wrong at first. Oops.
My DH has about 45-65 minutes each way. Mine is 40-55 minutes each way.
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Five hours currently. 2.5hrs each way. Yes, it sucks.
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Right now my commute is a 2 mile walk each way, dropping off LO midway at daycare. If I had a shower at work I might run it to speed things up, but I don't... I don't think driving would actually be much (or any) faster, as I have to drop off and pick up LO around rush hour in a very high traffic area and do not have access to parking near my office.
My husband takes the subway, it's around 45 minutes each way.
It's actually a non-trivial part of our "leisure" time spent commuting, even though we are in a tiny condo in the city. It could only get (potentially substantially) worse if we want a place with more space....And if we end up with multiple kids who need dropped off at different daycares/schools...
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@dc yoga bee: Wow... you do this every day?
When my husband lived in a different city I had a couple of hour commute each way once or twice a week when I would go to see him, and I thought that was bad...
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@periwinklebee: 5 days a week and some saturdays. if I remember correctly we are in the same area. Yep, I’m in the burbs commuting in. Traffic traffic traffic. But, we really wanted a single family home with a yard and community and it’s whwre we could afford.
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14 miles each way=about 15-20 minutes for me
3.5 miles each way=about 5-7 minutes depending on stop lights for my husband.
@dc yoga bee: that sounds terrible! Also being pregnant can't make that any better. Soooo many pee breaks
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Dh commutes 45 mins each way when he goes to his office but he can work from home so it's not every day.
I commute 45-90 mins each way every day, it sucks and I hope to not do it much longer....
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@Sams Mom: I grew up in an area where commutes like yours are the norm. Now where I live @dc yoga bee: 's experience is not that uncommon. It still kind of blows my mind, but we love our jobs and other things about the area...
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@periwinklebee: yea, I could not do that. My husband comes from the bay area and long commutes were the norm, and I come from a small town where the commute was more miles than minutes to drive it. We live in the 3rd maybe 4th largest city in our state now, and even though we live on the complete opposite side of town from where I work, the drives not too bad, except 2 days a week when I drive straight through town from the nanny's house and that takes about 35-40 minutes during rush hour.
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We carpool and our commute is 15-25 minutes depending on traffic. We also leave early (6:45) so that we avoid the traffic. Otherwise, in the thick of rush hour, it would be 35ish minutes. DH used to work downtown and his commute was around 45 minutes each way.
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My house straight to work is about 20 minutes, but takes about 35-40 with daycare dropoff. Husband's drive is about 10 minutes. I wouldn't want to do much more than I am now.
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My commute is 10 minutes and DH's is about 30 minutes.
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My commute is 1-1.5hr each way, DH is about 10 minutes (but he works much longer hours than me).
@dc yoga bee: I thought mine was bad but wow! What are your tips for not going insane during a long commute?
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I voted based on one way, but I do a super commute 2 days a week, sometimes less, but on those days, it's a 4 hour total. This is a public transportation commute, it involves multiple modes and connections. On this day, I leave the office at 3 30 so I am home at a normal time. I make it up with working longer hours the other days of the week.
On the other days, it's in the one hour total range via car. I also can work from home, but I try not to do that unless I need to be at home for something specific, like having work done on the house.
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DH works from home 95% of the time, but does daycare drop off in the morning which is just under a mile from our house approximately 3 min drive, 20 min walk.
I drive about 12 miles each way to work which takes 20-25 minutes on a regular day, can get up to 30+ minutes on busy traffic days.
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My commute is 20 minutes driving each way totaling 40 minutes a day.
DH can essentially WFH; usually he goes to the library 5 minutes away, sprinkled with meetings all over the place, but most I'd say within 30 min drive.
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My work is about 8 miles away and it takes me 20-35 minutes each way depending on the time of year (summer tends to be less since school is out). I used to commute farther out and there were days I would be on the road an hour+ each way. Luckily daycare and the elementary school are just a half mile from our house (in opposite directions though). Makes drop off and pick up so much easier.
DH is in sales and is on the road a lot.
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My commute is just over 30 minutes each way, I had no idea it would be worse than average. It recently increased from just under 30 minutes, and I think passing the 30 minute mark made a big difference. I work a lot fewer hours in my new job, especially weekends, so it is still a net win. I started listening to audiobooks on my commute which helps. It is about 11 miles avoiding highways (usually faster during rush hour) or 15 miles if I use the highways (faster away from rush hour, and sometimes in the summer). DH is SAHD so no commute. Last year, DS1's preschool was a 15-20 minute drive three days a week, I could not find anything I like closer. Next year they are walking 0.3 miles to elementary school. I am in a big metro area where long commutes are common.
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I SAH now and am thankful to have hour commutes behind me. We moved here for one job and now dh has a different job on the other side of the city where his commute is anywhere from 45m to 2 hours. We don’t want to move over there so I will be thrilled if he switches jobs closer again someday! I worry a lot about the risks to spending so much time driving especially when tired.
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My commute is just under 15 minutes but my husband's commute is 35-60 mins each way depending on traffic.
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Whoops voted one-way instead of both. Where's the undo button?
I drive 35 min. each way, so 1 hr 10 minutes.
DH drives 10 min. each way, so 20 minutes.We live in the country so a commute is pretty much a given. And no traffic.
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30-45 minutes there (no daycare drop off), about an hour home including pick up. I don't mind, it's the only alone time I get. Hooray audio books!
ETA I try to work early hours; it would be much longer if I worked 8:30-5.
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DH works from home and I'm about 1.5 miles from work and I usually walk or bike in. It's one of the best parts of where we live!
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I SAH now but before it was about a 4 minute walk
DH: lolzzzz. He commutes weekly to Europe
When he’s working in Manhattan it’s 35 min -
I'm 15 mins
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DH's commute is about 25 min each way, and daycare is 1 block from his work and directly on the way so it only adds the 10ish minutes it takes to get LO out of the car and into school.
My office is about 15 minutes from my house, but I only go there a few times per week and often not for a full day. I travel all over my region for work, so my commutes can vary from 15 minutes to two hours or more. However, if I'm going anywhere other than my office travel time counts as working time so if I have to go to a location 2 hours away, I'll usually leave home around 9am (after traffic) and plan my meeting at 11am. Commuting isn't bad when you're getting paid to do it!
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I’ve never had more than. 30 min round trip commute. I also hate driving.
I believe studies show commute times are a surprisingly big factor in life enjoyment.
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DH has about a 40 minute round trip commute.
If we move back to the town we love, it'll be around 3.5 hours round trip. We're hoping he can transfer to a more local place to avoid that.
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This thread is making me feel less crazy for the 45 min to 1 hour commute I might end up with. I'm hoping to get a job offer in my home state in the city, but I found an amazing preschool for DS in the far southern suburbs close to my mom.
My current commute is 20-40 minutes each way depending on which client locatation I'm traveling to. Some days I just do 20 minutes there and back to drop off at daycare and return home to work.
The new job would have me commuting to the city daily, but if we're close to my mom she could help with drop off/pickups some days, and I think this amazing school might be worth it.
ETA: I just realized my current commute to daycare on days when I WAH is 40 minutes morning and 40 minutes at night, or longer depending on traffic. An hour each way is totally not crazy
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I stay home. DH has about 30 minutes commute each way. No traffic, country roads though. So nice and easy.
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I'm lucky to work from home most days. When I do go into the office, it usually takes me around 30 minutes to drive about 5-6 miles (city driving on surface streets). My husband's commute takes about the same, maybe a tad longer, but he drives further on the interstate.
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I SAH so 0, though preschool was about ten minutes away. Next year I have two preschool drop offs in opposite directions twice a week.
DH used to commute about an hour each way, but now he works from home most of the time which is really nice. He has a lot more time with the kids this way (though he ends up working later more often). But almost once a month he flies cross country for a week.
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DH--30 minutes or less, door to door, walking and bus.
Me-I always say an hour, but it's an hour including daycare drop off/pickup (sometimes more than an hour). Driving time is usually 40-50 min, depending on traffic. -
2.5 hours a day total, door to door.
It sucks as much as you think it would but is outweighed by how nice it is to come home to our new house, plus the cessation of aggravations I was getting so annoyed with every day living in the city (really annoying neighbors we shared walls/floors/ceilings with, the MTA being a piece of fucking shit, outgrowing our space, our kid being so much happier here, etc). Commute could get worse if I switched jobs and had one that was not walkable from Penn Station, though
ETA that 2.5 hours does *not* count daycare dropoffs (husband does it, takes under 20 minutes round trip) or pickups (we had to hire a babysitter to do this as it was unfeasible for us, soooo, $$$$).
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Depends on the traffic. It should be a 40 minute drive each way. It’s usually more like an hour and twenty minutes, once when it snowed it took three hours.
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@DesertDreams88: I'm not familiar with the studies, but this would not surprise me, just anecdotally. I don't want to live in the city permanently, but am trying to figure out if I actually prefer one of the alternatives (moving to the suburbs, or moving to a totally different part of the country where commutes are less extended).
There are some dedicated bikepaths into the suburbs that link up with public transit, which I'm thinking could be a good compromise (I need an incentive to get exercise anyways; granted the weather is miserable half the year).
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@LCTBQE: Honestly, really annoying neighbors does weigh me towards thinking that sitting in traffic standstills may not be so bad Right now we're actually pretty lucky, but most of the 2-3 bedroom condos in our area are in converted old houses where you have a couple of neighbors who you have to organize snow removal, etc with. I have heard so many horror stories about this turning sour... The other things you mention are super annoying too... I'm glad to hear it's been worth it on net...
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I spend about 2 hours commuting (an hour each way with daycare drop off time included) but I do it on foot with my kids in the stroller. It doesn't seem so bad since I never hit traffic or have to deal with anyone else. Except when the weather sucks.
DH walks about 15-20 mins to work.
I really don't know how we would deal with commuting if we moved to the burbs. Ugh.
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40 minutes each way normally. Now I'm doing two drop-offs/pick-ups so it's closer to 60 minutes.
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