Me: 0.8 miles there, 0.8 miles back, for a total of a 1.6 mile round trip commute. I walk, though I’ll probably buy a bike soon, not because I have to, but because bikes are fun. It takes me fifteen minutes combined. Am I pretty happy about it? Yeah, you could say that. I really don’t understand the mentality of those people who put up with an hour commute every day. It’s like you’re working an extra couple of hours a week, and not even getting paid for them. The only way my commute could possibly be better is if I worked from home, or lived above a sandwich shop that employed me like a guy I used to know. That’s convenience! Only drawback? No real excuse for showing up late.
So what say you, short-commuted Dopers? Post your commute and let’s rub it in the faces of those stressed-out, gas-guzzling, suburban-dwelling rush hour robots!
Don’t answer if you work at home since we all know you all got the best time of it.
I’m about 7 miles from work. Usual drive time is about 15 minutes, but I’ve done it in as little as 10 if I go into work very early or hit all the lights just right.
Aw, that’s not fair - I was going to share how my spouse loves to tell everyone what a bitch his commute is, what with him having to walk all the way downstairs…he also likes to tell people that he wears chains in icy weather, and that his boss is a sonuvvabitch…
For 2 years in the early 90s, I had a 5-minute commute. Longer if the elevators were slow. I worked on 44th street in Manhattan, and lived on 45th street. I could see my apartment building from the back of our office space.
Good times
Now it’s more like 40 minutes each way, DC metro area. Though I guess that qualifies for a “short commute” for around here
Currently, 3 miles / 7 minutes from work – unless I’m going in at 5p or so, then it’s about 30 mins cause one of the most congested intersections in the county is in the way. Soon, I’ll be driving up to 90 miles one way, though, traveling from location to location for my job.
1 mile, one way. I used to ride my bike when the weather was nice, but the neighborhood around the office is going to Hades in a handbasket and I don’t feel safe biking it now. A ten minute drive through the neighborhood, tops.
I used to work at home in my jammies. That was sweet. 15 feet from LR to office. Hardly broke a sweat.
1.5 miles from my garage to my parking spot at the school where I teach. 5 minutes if I hit the traffic lights just right, a couple more minutes if not. Having my students as neighbors can be… interesting. One of them lives one street over from me and I stopped by to drop off a notebook he had left in my classroom last week. His divorced mom answered the door sweaty, breathless and wearing only a very short, low-cut robe…and although I obviously interrupted something (either sex or vacuuming nude, not sure which), she wanted to chit-chat about how he was doing in my class. I must say that it’s difficult to have a professional discussion about a student with a parent while that parent is flashing nipplage in plain view.
A block - I walk a block to work. In fact, this commute was a major, major incentive for me taking the job - I had just had enough of losing an hour each way every day, packed into the train with ugly, miserable people going to and returning from their jobs that they hate.
I think my current commute is the shortest I’ve ever had, a 20-minute walk (25 on the way back, since it’s uphill and I’m tired). My wife walks about 40-45 minutes to her job. Not driving to work was a prerequisite when we were on the job hunt.
