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How long is your commute?
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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I don't think this topic has been done already this year yet, but I'm looking at a position 100km away which means either borrowing the money to buy a car or over two hours one way on public transport.
Help me put this into perspective..
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "Working"
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I walk 5 minutes to my job.
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The Annals of MacNN History
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15 minutes by car.
Edit: Trickery Gossamer!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Clogland
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Wow, two answers before I got the poll sorted properly.
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Your Anus
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In the morning: 10-15 minutes depending on traffic
On the way home: 20-30 minutes depending on traffic
I think you need more options on the bottom end. Less then an hour is going to cover 90% of people.
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Addicted to MacNN
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Location: The Annals of MacNN History
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Yeah, I find the traffic on Uranus tougher in the evening, too.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: inside 128, north of 90
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there's no option for less than 15 minutes, but that's what it usually is. I also am driving a little later than most (10-6 schedule) so there isn't as much traffic usually.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Minnesota
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Originally Posted by skalie
I don't think this topic has been done already this year yet, but I'm looking at a position 100km away which means either borrowing the money to buy a car or over two hours one way on public transport.
Help me put this into perspective..
How long would it take you to drive?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: President Skroob's Office
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I can get door to door in 17 minutes if I catch the subway right away.
I won't take a job where the commute is more than 30-40 min on way.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Arizona Wasteland
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15-20 min by bicycle
30 min by car
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vacation.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Isle of Manhattan
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10 mins by train, 40 mins by walking, 15 on bike.
Anything more than that I'd quit.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: England | San Francisco
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15-20 minutes walking or 10 minute car journey
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Los Angeles of the East
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7-12 minutes all dictated on the stop lights.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Clogland
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Originally Posted by Turias
How long would it take you to drive?
Over an hour
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Oxford Universe City
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0 hours/minutes. I'm self-employed (art director) and work from home.
Skalie, you should separate these two: don't work/work from home… though sometimes that can be true they're clearly different.
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Arizona
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Around 20 minutes.
Three miles to the highway and then 10 miles on it to get to work.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Body in London, mind elsewhere
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
Around 20 minutes.
Three miles to the highway and then 10 miles on it to get to work.
Blimey, empty roads then!!
about 20-30mins on a motorcycle depending where I'm working each day.
otherwise it would be 40-70mins on public transport and 4x the cost.
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NY²
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9 miles. Between 20 and 30 minutes since it goes through residential areas and there is always a section that's 15mph for school kids.
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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3.75 miles away... 12-15 minute bike ride (traffic), or 5-10 minute drive by car.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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I've done the three-hour public transportation commute. It sucks. And I don't know how public transportation is where you live, but around here, it's unreliable enough that I was always missing my connecting rides and having to call a cab after all.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
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I drive about 10 minutes to work.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
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6-7 minutes.
I prefer living close to work, even if it means paying more for housing.
Driving 1 hour to work and back is spending 19 days per year in traffic ? WTF ?
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Feb 2004
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less than 2 miles, can be in my office in less than 5 minutes easily.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: The Annals of MacNN History
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Originally Posted by turtle777
6-7 minutes.
I prefer living close to work, even if it means paying more for housing.
Driving 1 hour to work and back is spending 19 days per year in traffic ? WTF ?
-t
I know. I don't understand these crazy people who have commutes over an 2 or 3 hours.
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Arizona
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Originally Posted by Nivag
Blimey, empty roads then!!
about 20-30mins on a motorcycle depending where I'm working each day.
otherwise it would be 40-70mins on public transport and 4x the cost.
Between my apartment and the highway entrance ramp three miles away, there's only 5 traffic lights. I'm usually able to time it well enough to where I only hit one or two of them. And the street is three lanes each way, so I'm able to keep the speed up regardless. The highway is a boring straight line and I'm usually able to pull 70-80 non-stop.
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Meow Mix, Meow Mix
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Minnesota
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My current commute is about 20 minutes by car, which is wonderful. I did spend one summer working 65 miles away from home; it took me a full hour to get there each morning and then another hour to get home again that evening. I loved the job, but the driving made the experience absolutely horrible.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Louisiana
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Irvine, CA
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~17mins one way via freeway. I also drive to a bunch of other places averaging 20,000 miles annually by car. I plan to move closer to work where it will be 10mins by car on the streets.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: adequate, thanks.
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5 minutes train, 8 minutes walk.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Second star to the right, and straight on till morning
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1:15 to 1:45 by car.
:35 total by plane.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2006
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I commute to communtiy college.
30 minutes to ferry. 40 minutes on ferry. 15 minutes to college.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The back of the room
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1 mile = 5-8 min. by car = 7 min. by bike = 20 min. by foot.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: California
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before we moved my dads commute was 3-4 hours each way using the highway. after we moved it was 30 mins, 60 mins depending on traffic. then the place moved house a few years after we moved and it went back to 3-4 hours each way. a couple months the place closed.
so now my dads commute is just walking up the stairs to his office (work at home) <mostly>
Alex
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Aussie in UK
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15 minute walk normally for me but at the moment I am up in Fleet Street in London so it is the around an hour each way.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
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22 minutes walking or 8 minutes by vehicle.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Teaneck, NJ
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I drive 25 minutes to school each way. When I need to my commute into NYC for work is 1:15 if I get a ride to the train station.
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AT&T iPhone 5S and 6; 13" MBP; MDD G4.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Netherlands
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with my car its only 20 minutes to the city. by bicycle it's 50 minutes but it's too cold for biking.
up till 3 weeks ago the countryroad was always empty but suddenly everyone's TOMTOM shows the road as an alternative route when trafficjams become too worse, so now it's getting clogged. A bad development.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: New York, NY
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5 minute walk. Don't have any cars in my household anymore.
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
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I only have to go to school twice a week, but it's a little over 2 hours each way.
121 miles from my driveway to the commuter lot. then a 10 minute walk to class.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "Working"
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Oh yeah, my dad has a 1 mile drive/bike ride, and my mom has a 2 block drive/walk. Benefits of living in a small town.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: The Rockies
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Ten minutes by bike, 9 minutes by car.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Davenport, IA
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35 miles. Usually takes me about 45 minutes.
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Half The People I Know Are Below Average
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: OK
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Wow, that'd be four hours out of your day, or 20 hours a week that you'd spend commuting.
I hope the money's great because could pretty much kiss your personal life good-bye.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2000
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15 min by car, between 40 and 50 min by bus.
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Banned
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Indy.
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Originally Posted by mydog8mymac
Wow, that'd be four hours out of your day, or 20 hours a week that you'd spend commuting.
I hope the money's great because could pretty much kiss your personal life good-bye.
You talking to me?
You might have missed that I only do it two days a week. And it is for school, so I am actually paying for it.
The other 5 days a week I rarely leave town.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Good question...
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30 minutes by car
50 minutes by train & bike
40 minutes by bike
I usually ride everyday unless its too cold, too wet, or if I'm too tired. Then I will bike/train my way there.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: back home
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Less than 30 minutes by train when I do not have a moron as a train driver. Do not have a car. And next it is going to take over 11/2 hour.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, TX
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10-15 minutes
Live in the big city, work in the little city north of town, so it's traffic-free both ways.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Durham, NC
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I go to school to put off finding a proper job. It takes me 8 to 10 minutes to get there by bicycle. I would probably be really whiny about it if it took more than about 30 minutes.
But I'm pretty whiny in general.
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