ITT we talk/brag/complain about our commute.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Does anyone have a commute that is over an hour? How does it work for you and do you get used to it? If I get the transfer I'm hoping for I will end up with a 50 minute drive (w/ no traffic) to/from work.

I used to work with a guy who had a 2 1/2 hour commute ( He lives in Grand Rapids but works in metro Detroit). He ended up renting a room in town and would just go home on the weekends.

Anybody trying to commute from GR to Detroit is just crazy.


I hope you're keeping in mind that 50 minutes with no traffic means an hour and 15 minutes with traffic and 2-3 hours with snow. You could deal with that for a little bit at first, but you're going to want to live closer than that. I have a co-worker doing Waterford to Detroit every day and she goes nuts.

[KSig RC]

5ish miles; 7-12 minutes.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Anybody trying to commute from GR to Detroit is just crazy.


I hope you're keeping in mind that 50 minutes with no traffic means an hour and 15 minutes with traffic and 2-3 hours with snow. You could deal with that for a little bit at first, but you're going to want to live closer than that. I have a co-worker doing Waterford to Detroit every day and she goes nuts.

That doesn't seem too bad of a commute.. I was doing Royal Oak to Mt. Clemens and it was 20-25 mins in the morning and 45 mins in the afternoon.

[Scully]

If I'm lucky, my drive is 45 minutes in the morning. Some days it can take up to an hour.

My commute home however, is anywhere from 1 - 1.5 hours depending on the time I leave. Somehow I end up home at 7:15pm whether I leave work at 5:30 or 6:30. So it pays for me to stay late!

I have a 60 mile round trip per day.

On nice sunny days, I don't mind the ride. I get to play my music and clear my head. But when it rains, snows, or I get stuck behind an accident it makes me completely insane.

[aephi alum]

I work from home.

I've had some pretty hellacious commutes, though. For a month, my commute consisted of a 2-hour Metro-North ride and a roughly 1/2 hour subway ride each way. I moved closer to NYC and later took a job in Midtown, which left me with "just" a one-hour Metro-North ride. I listened to a lot of podcasts and got a lot of knitting and needlepoint done.