Commuting - How much time do you spend?

I can just not imagine commuting an hour each way or understand why people do it, for a cash and time thing.

Currently my commute is 13miles and takes 30-40mins door-to-door. I'd preferably live closer but 1hr 20mins max a day is easily doable. Got an interview this week for a job 45miles away though down the M11 though, bit far for me :p.
 
I cycle 4 miles to work, which takes about 15-20mins (each way). Could do it faster if there wasn't traffic or traffic lights! Then I faff around for about 10-15mins once I get in locking my bike up, getting changed, etc.
 
About 1h30 each way - car, train, tube (or Borisbike). iPhone+headphones = great opportunity to catch up on all those DVD box sets I've never had the chance to watch.

Have been doing the same commute for 20 years.
 
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When i was working in London it took me about 2 hours to get to work each day.

Now i work in Portsmouth it takes me about 40 minutes to get there and 30 minutes to get back :D
 
Old job took me 35 minutes (drive + train). New job is a 15 minute drive. Although they are planning to relocate, so that's going to jump to a 40 minute drive. Would prefer to get the train though :(
 
Leave house at 7.15am. Get to train station about 7.35am. Train at 7.46am. At work by 8.35am. So about 1 hour 20 minutes to work. I leave at 4pm and I'm home by 5.30pm so one hour 30 minutes back home. So 2 hours 50 minutes from door to work and work to door. :(
 
I've just gone from a 120 mile/2 hour round trip per day to working from home... awesome.

Saying that I'm currently 200 miles/3hrs30 away from home.... not sure what happened there :)
 
Door to door is almost always less than 45 minutes unless I'm really rather unlucky with cancelled trains, the train journey itself is only about 15 minutes but I've got a bit of a walk at either end. I'm pretty lucky as far as London commuting goes, especially as I didn't work out how long it would be before I moved here.
 
Commute takes anywhere between 25 and 60 minutes each way.

Between 10 days, 19 hours and 55 minutes and 26 days a year.

So that's between 3% and 7% of my life handed over to TFL. The least they could do is run on time.
 
I just turned down an interview because it was the wrong side of London, and would involve a tube and 2 buses. That would have been an hour each way if the stars aligned. Currently about 35 mins door to door, with 15-20 mins walking.
 
it varies. On a good day it's a 5 minute walk each way. On a bad day (i.e. I get stuck behind a slow walker and can't get past) it can take about 7 minutes :D
But in the snow it takes about 20 minutes because it gets very slippery.
 
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