What is your commute time to work each day?

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Posted: 8/23/2005 6:21:16 PM EDT

I know this has been asked before, but I'm also looking for a little advice:

I've been seriously planning on getting out of NY and moving to Colorado. While I'm in Colorado, I get a call saying I got into the Ironworkers Union here in NY. It's a 100K a year job with a ton of benifits.

The bad thing is the commute. I have a 2005 Ford F250 Diesel and a motorcycle and the round trip is about 1 hour and 30 minutes (50 miles each way)

I did some quick calculating, and this is what I figure it will cost me just to get to work:

3 hours/day * 5 days a week * 50 weeks a year = 750 hours * $20.00/hr = $15,000
Buy cheap car for commute: $3,000
Mantainence: $1,000
Fuel: $2,250
Stress: Who knows

TOTAL: $21,250

I'll have to earn $30,000 to take home that.

WHat do you guys think?!?

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:22:15 PM EDT

[#1]

I have to drive about a mile to work.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:22:55 PM EDT

[#2]

About a mile.

eta: 3-5 minute travel time.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:23:21 PM EDT

[#3]

About 3 or 4 miles.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:23:50 PM EDT

[#4]

My office is at home, but I use about 75 gallons a week doing sales and inspections.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:24:30 PM EDT

[#5]

1.8 miles.
Engine's barely warmed up by the time I park my truck each morning....

Evening commute is a little longer... by about 4 minutes.
Biggest down-side is that my boss knows how close I live, and they know I drive a TANK, so I have no excuse on snow days.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:25:16 PM EDT

[#6]

13 miles....usually less than 15 minutes.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:26:31 PM EDT

[#7]

I was hoping to have one of the shortest ones at around 3 miles.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:27:08 PM EDT

[#8]

9 miles. It takes a full fifteen minutes. Wasting my life away in traffic!

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:27:20 PM EDT

[#9]

77 miles in the morning and 77 miles in the evening.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:27:55 PM EDT

[#10]

1/5th of a mile. By the time I get to my car, stick my bag in it, lock my gun up in it, drive to work, get out, unlock my shit, get my bag and walk into work. I could have just walked if I had my CCW.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:28:04 PM EDT

[#11]

74 miles roundtrip

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:28:25 PM EDT

[#12]

It's about a 15 second walk from my bed to my primary office.

When I actually have to go in to my cubicle it's a 45+ minute commute as long as there are no flat tires, fender benders or people pulled over enroute then it's about an hour. If there is a serious accident.......

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:28:29 PM EDT

[#13]

If I'm at the school, it's about 15 minutes away.

If I'm at my internship, it's 2 hours away + DC traffic.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:28:33 PM EDT

[#14]

Just under 20 miles.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:28:41 PM EDT

[#15]

Due to traffic It takes half the time to drive home at night as it does to go to work in the afternoon.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:29:33 PM EDT

[#16]

1/2 hour-if I walk

Do you mean NYC?

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:30:03 PM EDT

[#17]

about 1/3 of a mile...1 and a half minutes to get through the stop sign and school zone.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:30:50 PM EDT

[#18]

Quoted:
1/2 hour-if I walk

Do you mean NYC?

Yep. From Suffolk

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:33:32 PM EDT

[#19]

12 seconds from my bedroom/bathroom to my office.

20 seconds if traffic is heavy.

3 minutes if I make coffee before going to the office.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:33:54 PM EDT

[#20]

If I walk about 8 minutes
If I ride my bike about 4 minutes
If I drive about 2 minutes
2 stop signs and one right turn

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:36:05 PM EDT

[#21]

Approx 25 miles from my house to the White House. No I don't work there. Usually about 40 minutes in a carpool in the morning and 50 minutes home. If I drive and take metro (subway) it is around 1:15 to work and about the same home.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:36:21 PM EDT

[#22]

As long as it takes me to walk downstairs.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:36:43 PM EDT

[#23]

55 miles round trip about hour and ten minutes driving, sometimes more depending on traffic.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:40:41 PM EDT

[#24]

it's a 5-7 minute drive if I don't catch a barge on the way. I stop to get a water and news paper every morning, so it takes me about 9-13 minutes in all.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:41:34 PM EDT

[#25]

2-20 miles depends.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:42:06 PM EDT

[#26]

35-75 minutes depending on traffic-each way.

HH

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:44:05 PM EDT

[#27]

51 miles, usually do it in under an hour

Company car and gas though !

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:45:20 PM EDT

[#28]

Used to be 24 miles, 1-4 hours each way (worst commute on the planet, Hiway 101 and 405 in LA); had a few times with 6 hour commutes when there was a slow speed chase, 5 hours one way when shithead Clinton was getting a haircut. Now it's going to be 83 miles each way and hopefully 1 hour 15 min. After I can scrape up enough dough to move to the town where I'm working I should be able to walk to work, 500 yds, no more than 10 minutes.

CW

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:45:33 PM EDT

[#29]

Wow alot of short commutes.

Maybe I should take the pay cuy and move to Colorado. Exchange money and benefits for freedom, fitness, and the mountains.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:46:01 PM EDT

[#30]

5 minutes.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:46:48 PM EDT

[#31]

3-4 minutes, but I usually drive around for about twenty trying to talk myself into showing up

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:48:51 PM EDT

[#32]

43 miles each way. 45 to 50 mins. am 50 to 55 mins. pm

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:50:19 PM EDT

[#33]

I'm at work as soon as I leave the house

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:50:24 PM EDT

[#34]

About 20 feet.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:53:07 PM EDT

[#35]

about 250 feet.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:58:10 PM EDT

[#36]

Right now, 5 miles. I live really close to downtown Cleveland.

If I get my DC job, I'll have a 30 min. to an hour commute. That will take some getting used to, but I'll use the Metro time to read and relax.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:58:24 PM EDT

[#37]

40 mph for 20 min, + 65 mph for 20 min. Almost no traffic.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:59:45 PM EDT

[#38]

Depends on where I work. Anywhere from 30 minutes to six hours.

Posted: 8/23/2005 6:59:54 PM EDT

[#39]

22 miles, but I don't go into the office every day. Depending on the time of year, I go into the office between one and four times a week.

Posted: 8/23/2005 7:04:46 PM EDT

[#40]

Block and a half.

Posted: 8/23/2005 7:08:13 PM EDT

[#41]

37.5 miles, both ways, 75 miles a day, about :45-1 hour each way. costs me between 6-7$ a day in gas to get too and from work. i drive a 02 ford ranger. every third week im on call and sometimes make the drive back and forth 4-5 times unless i want to hang around at work all day. and all OT is now "comp time" and not time and a half so im not even getting paid for it.

Posted: 8/23/2005 7:40:44 PM EDT

[#42]

21.4 miles , with 19 of that being interstate highway .
My best time has been around 17 min and the worst
over 3 hrs . On average it's 25-30 min .

I've had better and I've had worse commutes over the years
but I find the 20-30 min trip to be ideal . It gives me enough
time to drink a cup of coffee in the morning , and enough
time to wind down in the evening if it's been a bad day .

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:11:08 PM EDT

[#43]

Seven miles one way

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:15:26 PM EDT

[#44]

8 minutes.

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:20:07 PM EDT

[#45]

used to be 62miles one way 1hr 15mins
thanks to OPEC I now walk across the street
I am able to get a small apartment plus cable for just a bit more than i was paying for gas
now it is bit less than i would be paying for gas

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:21:55 PM EDT

[#46]

I can make it to work in 30 seconds.

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:31:48 PM EDT

[#47]

74 miles round trip.

I spend two hours a day on the road.

Commute + cost of gas + 12hr shift = 1 tired / broke rabbit.

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:34:25 PM EDT

[#48]

20 minutes to get about 12 miles. Each way. No biggie.

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:35:09 PM EDT

[#49]

I'm only 23 miles from the airport here in the ATL and it only takes me 20 min. to get there. What sucks is my truck gets 21 mile to the sallon and that mean I roughly burn 2 gallons of gas to go to work and back and that costs me over $5.00 a day.

Posted: 8/23/2005 8:39:32 PM EDT

[#50]

1mile round trip, I should walk but I dont

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