I'm moving soon on account of gettin' hitched.

I've been spoiled with a nice close commute my first two years out. Just benchmarking all of you...is 47 miles (94 miles/day) what you'd call a terribly long commute? Or just long? Or hell, even reasonable?

I'll be driving it (no bus or train).

5/11/2009 7:26:34 PM

I guess that depends on traffic, I did about half that a day for a year or so and it was very reasonable even with horrible rush hour traffic

I think it might get a little long but if it's smooth sailing all the way it'd be fairly pleasant, just get satellite radio or audiobooks or something to kill the time though

or just talk on the phone with the SO, I know people who do worse daily

5/11/2009 7:28:38 PM

My commute is 68 miles round trip. It's all on the highway so unless some idiot did something dumb it's nice. I am also here in Burlington/Greensboro and I would never ever want to go on I-40 East in Raleigh again.

5/11/2009 7:29:02 PM

47 miles each way long term would cause me to try to move or find a new job - if it was going to be for more than 6 months i'd buy a cheap beater car to get me to and from work

5/11/2009 7:30:19 PM

I'm doing Cary to north asheboro most days lately. Isn't that bad usually. It's something like 100 miles total or a little more

5/11/2009 7:31:32 PM

My first commute was 92 miles each way. That was my first summer out of high school. So I'd say yours was just 'long'


my dad's commute for years was West chester, PA to Cary, NC every Friday/Sunday

[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 7:32 PM. Reason : ,.]

5/11/2009 7:32:02 PM

I am 15 miles roundtrip from work. It takes me anywhere from 10 to 15 minutes to get to work each morning, and that's Cary city driving. I love it. I too am spoiled.

5/11/2009 7:32:21 PM

i did 60miles one way for the first 5 years out of school. you get used to it, even with traffic. in the evenings i would break it up by going mountain biking or stopping for dinner on the way home.

Now I do 25miles one way through downtown atlanta. its very doable, the evening commute can be a bitch every now and then, but some people down here do 3 times that.

5/11/2009 7:32:36 PM

2.5 miles
hardly any traffic

5/11/2009 7:33:02 PM

http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/19/worst-commutes-america-biz-cx_ee_1219worstcommutes.html

5/11/2009 7:33:05 PM

.5 miles

I walk it most days, but it's a 5 minute drive when it's raining

5/11/2009 7:33:10 PM

Mine is 505 miles, it takes a little less than 2 hours usually.

Oh, but I only do it around once a week.

[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 7:36 PM. Reason : oh yeah]

5/11/2009 7:35:56 PM

i did about 104 miles round trip for a year

i bought a house 5 minutes away from where i work so i'd never have to do it again

gained about 2.5 hours a day by doing so

5/11/2009 7:36:07 PM

60 miles from Newport News to Richmond starting this fall.

5/11/2009 7:50:23 PM

i have about a 2 second commute from my bed to my desk

5/11/2009 7:52:13 PM

Buckhead to Duluth.

I am going the opposite way of traffic so its pretty much just the distance i have to travel... about 20 min in the morning, 25 in the afternoon.

^^^ nice. I would sacrifice almost everything to be close to work but our office is in the middle of suburban crap and I refuse to live there. So work is haul, but everything else is walking distance from my place, love it.

[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 7:53 PM. Reason : d]

5/11/2009 7:52:43 PM

15.7 mi – about 20 mins for me

after I move into my new house, it will be 13.7 mi – about 17 mins

5/11/2009 7:54:20 PM

3 miles to the park and ride and then 15 miles on the bus from the park and ride to uptown Charlotte.

5/11/2009 7:54:27 PM

^^^someone said buckhead wasnt doing so hot? I like that area

5/11/2009 7:56:15 PM

>100 <300 miles/day. I'm a consultant so it sorta comes with the territory, plus I get a mileage per diem.

[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 8:13 PM. Reason : .]

5/11/2009 7:58:12 PM

right now it's about 12 miles, but takes about 30 minutes since I take the bus and train.

I'm about to move further from the city, so it'll go up to about 20 miles, and probably 40 minutes or so.

5/11/2009 7:58:15 PM

^^^ depends on what they mean by hot.

its still looks like a warzone with all the construction, they tore down about 75% of it and are in the middle of rebuilding it. Once thats done it will be too damn nice, I wont even be able to shop where I live. Their goal is to make it second only to Beverly Hills in terms of shopping.

It will be nice, but I miss the grungier days already haha

[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 7:58 PM. Reason : d]

5/11/2009 7:58:15 PM

1 mile

I like being able to walk to work

5/11/2009 7:58:17 PM

from home to the office is 14 miles...about 25 mins with traffic

i did the 90mi round trip for a couple of years and got used to it.

anywhere you go these days seems like it takes 30 minutes.

5/11/2009 8:08:50 PM

I'm at about 7.5 miles to get to work right now. Next semester I'm starting grad school at State which is going to up me to 27.5 miles to get to there. That amount isn't unreasonable, but if I had stayed with my job I could have easily moved next year to walking distance to work.

As for your situation Wyloch, if I were to end up nearly 50 miles away from a long term job prospect, I'd move closer or find a different job.

5/11/2009 8:13:06 PM

Quote :

"Mine is 505 miles, it takes a little less than 2 hours usually."

wat

5/11/2009 8:15:49 PM

My commute will be literally 30 seconds soon....

5/11/2009 8:16:27 PM

3 miles each way.

5/11/2009 8:18:04 PM

1.5 miles each way, so 3 miles total

sometimes i scooter, sometimes i motorcycle, sometimes i bike, sometimes i walk...and if it's raining, i'll usually drive the car

i'd hate to live far from work

[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 8:23 PM. Reason : m != miles]

5/11/2009 8:23:10 PM

Quote :

"As for your situation Wyloch, if I were to end up nearly 50 miles away from a long term job prospect, I'd move closer or find a different job."

This is a one-year situation while she finishes her last year of grad school in Baltimore (Towson). I work in southern Maryland, so we have to split the difference basically. The second she graduates we're booking it back to southern MD.

Sounds like I should suck it up and just deal with it, since I know for certain that it's only for one year.

5/11/2009 8:23:52 PM

On average, about 100 miles per day - different jobs around the state. I've gotten used to spending a lot of time on the road and prefer it to the short commute to the central office itself.

5/11/2009 8:24:56 PM

Since the end of April when I moved, I now walk 0.6 miles. If I'm really hustling I can make it there in about 8 minutes.

It's liberating.

It's also May, so we'll see what it's like in the winter.

5/11/2009 8:27:19 PM

I'm looking to have a 7 mile or less commute to the shipyard when I move in a couple months.

Not interested in sitting in traffic any more. I hate even medium commutes. Just gotta find a decent neighborhood that's this close to the shipyard.

5/11/2009 8:27:22 PM

I have a 62 mile commute in the morning and a 62 mile commute in the evening. It's not really that bad, and it's just for the summer. Chapel Hill--> Greensboro via 54 is not a bad drive. At least I get to take something other than I40 for half the trip. I just put in a book on tape and I'm good. This week is Pride and Prejudice.

5/11/2009 8:28:18 PM

I'm 28 miles roundtrip so that's terribly long to me. How often would you have to buy gas for that commute?

5/11/2009 8:32:30 PM

.10 mile one way

5/11/2009 8:34:24 PM

^^I have a corolla that gets 40mpg highway, so it's not really that bad.

5/11/2009 8:35:57 PM

6.6 miles round trip

5/11/2009 8:38:22 PM

a little more than a mile. it's sweet.

last summer it was about 25 miles each way and i thought that really sucked.

[Edited on May 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM. Reason : god, 47 miles?]

5/11/2009 8:39:22 PM

40 something miles each way

It takes like 3 minutes on my super fast motorcycle, though.

5/11/2009 8:40:59 PM

Its a freaking journey, though back roads and highways, then on an interstate, then back on to back roads and past some factories, though the gates of mordor and up mount doom, then between some sphinxes that shoot lasers at you if you don't believe in yourself, past the church where you meet Aeris, then down capital. it takes about an hour ten.

5/11/2009 8:48:57 PM

a little less than 3 miles, straight down harrison avenue.

5/11/2009 8:55:48 PM

Straight down the Hershey Highway

5/11/2009 9:02:21 PM

switching from a 26 mile round trip to a 9 mile round trip this week or next. hopefully this week, im excited about the switch

no change in drive time though, moving downtown.

probably will start taking the bus actually

5/11/2009 9:22:16 PM

Trailwood
Avent Ferry
Western
Pullen
Dunn

5/11/2009 9:23:08 PM

21 miles round trip, close enough to bike to work with very real threat of getting run over in north Charlotte

5/11/2009 9:23:46 PM

my parents commuted anywhere from 50-90 miles one way when i was younger


mine is about to get a whole lot better, though

5/11/2009 9:26:28 PM

15 min Apt -> Train station (Bike)
45 min Station -> Station (Train)
30 min Station -> Work (Bike)

5/11/2009 9:29:18 PM

my daily commute is about a 1.2 mile walk or bike ride. if the weather is shitty i'll take the bus, though.

my dad does 150 miles round trip 4 days a week

5/11/2009 9:32:28 PM

set em up

5/11/2009 9:33:27 PM