25 miles. County highway through the mountains. Pretty much zero traffic in the morning, with a little more on my way home.
I drive through Breckenridge every day. During the Christmas season, I get to see a great light show as I drive through the quite town before most people have gotten up.
Mine just changed last year, from a 60 mile one way commute, to a 6 mile one way commute. I am in heaven, especially since I started riding my bike to work.
32 miles each way. It takes about 37 minutes.
StG
Downstairs, 10 feet to the left.
Less than a mile, which I either bike or walk (if I drove, I’d need to walk nearly as far from the parking lot). Yay for on-campus housing!
A tad less than a mile. By bike - 4 minutes to get in (downhill) 6 to get home (uphill). It’s mostly on a proper bike route so I don’t even have to contend with traffic.
We moved my office earlier this year. What was a 15 second walk to the third floor is now two steps across the bedroom. I could quite literally go from bed to work without touching the floor.
Currently back in school, but my weekend job which becomes close to full time during the summer is 53.1 miles away according to Google Maps. That’s the price of living in the center of the urban sprawl and working at a horsepital (technical term) out near where the horses are, which happens to be on the OTHER side of the sprawl. The shortest it has taken is 55 minutes, which involved not just bending but breaking speed laws on highways in two different states AND hitting all of the traffic lights perfectly. Usually, it takes about 65-70 minutes, but coming home in rush hour (at the end of a day shift OR at the end of the night shift) takes closer to 2 hours. If I’ve worked a night shift and it is now a weekday morning, I usually stay for rounds so that I learn something and I don’t have to sit in traffic for 2 hours - it wears out my middle finger (I kid, around here I’m afraid I’ll get run off the road if I show any aggression).
My last job was 45-50 miles each way depending on which route I felt like taking. I.e., there was no ONE good way to get there from the highway. I commuted to that job 5 days a week for 3 or 4 months before finding a part of a farm house to rent. Then, my commute went down to about 7 miles. I loved living on a farm, but I’m stuck back in the 'burbs for school.
Switched jobs last year, my commute went from 6 miles (15 minutes) to 13 miles (30 minutes). It’s not terrible though. Biggest disadvantage is that I can’t run home for lunch anymore.
7 miles each way. Commute time with no traffic is around 10 minutes. Then again, there isn’t a moment of the day when there is no traffic in NoVa.
Real commute time varies from 25 minutes to 1.5 hours. If I could drag fat ass out of bed even half an hour earlier, I would get into work in half the time. Today was pretty normal - around 35-40 minutes. I tend to get home faster because I won’t leave till 6.45 or 7. Being sat at the desk usually beats being sat in traffic.
And my new car, she no like congestion. Muscle was not necessarily the smart way to go living here, but damn if she isn’t the prettiest.
Maybe a two minute walk if I’m being leisurely. The school I work at is on the same piece of property as the building I live in, so it’s just a walk across the lawn to work each day.
I do it backwards - I live in Manhattan and commute to the NJ 'burbs. I used to commute 2 miles downtown but things changed and here I am. For all practical purposes I’m an itinerant pharma worker the way things have gone with layoffs and restructurings the past few years, plus the wife and kids like the city (although our dwelling is tiny), so we stay in the city.
MissMossie - How about an update? Are you still happy living with the sisters? When does your year end?
StG
Wow, so many people with short commutes! Do a lot of you live in cities? I live in what is called a “bedroom community” and the only businesses within 5 miles of here are a home daycare and a U-Haul place.
10 minutes, door-to-door, and that’s because traffic is pretty thick. Mapquest says it’s 3.07 miles.
I live downtown in my city. I chose to live here so I could easily be in walking distance of work and bars.
I work across the street from my house. Yay me!
1.4 mile walk, takes about 30 mins.
Oddly enough, it only takes about 5 minutes longer to walk home that it did when I was driving.
About 60 miles one way straight line, 96 by road per Mapquest.
I drive 30 miles (about 35 minutes over limited access highways before rush hour really starts) to the train station, then take a 75 minute express train ride, then a 20 minute walk to my office.
Because I can sleep on the train, I actually find it less tiring than when I had a 45 minute high traffic drive to my previous job, though the time it takes out of my day is still unpleasant. The benefit is that I get a NYC salary while keeping a suburban Philadelphia cost of living.
I voted less than a mile, because it’s about one kilometre if I walk across* the railway and catch the shuttle bus.** Thing is, though, that takes half an hour, or more if there’s a queue for the bus. So, when I don’t care about my carbon footprint, the commute is 5km driving, which only takes ten minutes at the worst.
(After this post, anyone familiar with Cape Town will be able to say quite precisely where I live and work. :o)