15min commute to over a hour

You might find it tiring. An extra hour each way is ten extra hours per week - more time than working an extra day each week.

I don't think I would want to commute for that long unless the job was really worth it. I had a ~50min commute when I lived in London and that was more than enough for me. Taking a one hour train journet beforehand would have been too much for me.
 
I do an hour and a half which is about the limit of what I can bear. As you get older it becomes harder to 'just' move closer to work, a lot of people forget this. You have a whole life to move with you, different requirements from your home and a degree of compromise is needed because your other half also works and you often can't both have your cake and eat it.

I took this job because I knew at some point we were planning to move closer to where I work, but as long as the hours aren't silly a commute this long is bearable. It's also helped a lot by having a simple commute and if the trains aren't too busy. I couldn't do this if I had to stand partway for my journey or if I had to make more than one change. I'd find as little as a 45 minute commute hell if I had to stand all the way and if the train was packed.
 
I wouldn't do it on public transport, sitting next to some smelly person for an hour on a train, or some annoying ****er, then having to get off and most likely use the tube full of tramps and stuff or maybe the bus, full of dossers off to the chav church (job centre). No thankyou, public transport is terrible.

Doing it by car then yeah I'd do it.

I used to do a 45 minute commute by bus, awful. Hated it, now i'm driving it's a bit quicker and a much nicer journey.
 
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An hour commuting which consisted of pounding a motorway would be a lot more bearable to me than an hour of trying to get 20 miles across town in heavy traffic. IMHO
 
territt said:
my train is about 2 hours 20mins into london each day with a 10min drive to the station and 10min walk in london, you get used to it, find things to do with the time, reading/training, get a notebook and watch movies, play games,
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in 5 days, you spend 26.6 hours travelling, so you lose a whole day :(
 
I get around said:
I wouldn't do it on public transport, sitting next to some smelly person for an hour on a train, or some annoying ****er, then having to get off and most likely use the tube full of tramps and stuff or maybe the bus, full of dossers off to the chav church (job centre). No thankyou, public transport is terrible.

Doing it by car then yeah I'd do it.

I used to do a 45 minute commute by bus, awful. Hated it, now i'm driving it's a bit quicker and a much nicer journey.
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Bus is completely different to a train, also have you ever spent 1hr + twice a day in slow moving traffic, it's boring/frustating and frankly costly. I do that currently and i'd much prefer to be able to get public transport to work, which I will in a few weeks when my boss gets me a pool car to use during working hours. :D
 
No, personally I wouldn't. I hate commuting, I would ensure that I either get a job near where I live or move to where my Job is.

Then again, i'm not tied down by a partner etc.

I have a job in central Cambridge and I'm currently moving to a new place, and I made sure it was walking/cycling distance
 
Ironically, my 2hour and 8 mile commute where I am in Swansea is going to be reduced by half the time but twice the distance on Monday!
 
Currently takes me 10 minutes on foot to get to my work, before that its was a hour and 20 minute commute in the mornings and possibly longer in the evenings when traffic was bad. As I was on the bus I could simply pop my headphones in or grab my book out my bag and just be in a world of my own.

Also get to see some funny things spending that much time on public transport, can be a nightmare when you get a person of the "special" variety come and sit next to you... Have met quite a few people on the bus though that have turned into really good friends.
 
[TW]Fox;15300625 said:
My girlfriend has an hour commute and it's driving me up the wall, has to get up at 6am and is in bed by 10 :(
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Pffft. Man her up Fox. I'm up at 6 and not bed before 12!

Although really i guess i could sleep till 7 as i don't leave till 7:30. I just like to be awake for a while before i get to work, otherwise i'm all groggy.
 
1 hour commute is nothing really.

I drive from Hemel Hempstead to Watford which takes 15-20mins on a Saturday and Sunday, but over an hour on a Workday. It's just something you get used to...
 
When I worked in Winchester I commuted just over 2 hours each way every day for around 6 months.
In Aberdeen it took around 45 minutes each way to get to the office
Here in Prague it takes me around 40 minutes each way to get to the office

In public transport it's not so bad, in the mornings I can sleep a little or just listen to music or read. Sure in the evenings if you are tired then it's a bit of a pain but I don't mind it
 
Just worked out the actual commute time
10-15 min to get to train station - hoping parking is a none issue.
1 hour 10 min on train
30 min walk.

1hr i could live with but 1hr40+ is just to much with a wife and baby to contend with.
 
My Worst commute was Goldaming, Surrey to Hemel Hempstead, Hertforshire every day.
This was during the M25 Heathrow expansion too. 2 hours and 30 minutes on a good day.

It nearly killed me...
 
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