How long is your commute and £££?

3 hours, train and some tubes (depending on the weather).
About £5k a year.
When I started commuting from where I live (in 1998) it cost me £2k and that was about 30% of my salary.
 
I have a home office which is a few yards from my bedroom/kitchen and a city office which is around £220 return, circa 135 miles each way and a 2 hours 45 minute commute each way.
 
Anything from 10-60 minutes each way depending on location (5 or 15 miles) and traffic. Cost is something like £86/month and, sometimes, part of my soul.
 
I do a field job so my commute is anywhere between 20mins and 4 hours. Company car and fuel though with a flexible attitude to arrival time means part of my commute is nearly always part of my working day. Not helpful for the OP but good for me. Do spend a large amount of time at premier inns overnight though.
 
I think it depends to an extent where you are in the country e.g. in London you might travel around 7-8 miles as I do but that will take me between 60-80 minutes door to door with a bit of a walk at each end. I'm lucky in that I can choose from a couple of different trains to get me in to work so I can either have a simpler (but longer) journey with more walking or change train to tube for a quicker (but more unpleasant) journey. I'm not sure I'd consider a commute of that duration elsewhere in the country and even if I did I suspect I'd be trying hard to cut it down or to get significantly more working from home to offset the time/costs.

It costs around £3.30 each way for the public transport bit, an extra £1.50 if I choose to get the bus. It would take me about the same time to physically run home as it does on public transport but that then creates some logistical problems with clothes/laptop etc and I'd need a shower which adds to the time as well.
 
When I first moved into my house, to drive to the office took 15 minutes, now to do 8 miles takes 45 minutes .. so I worked from home.

Wasn't seen around the office much, so they wondered what I did and made me redundant .... then they got fined 3.6 million for poor performance because they lost control of the data I looked after. I laughed a lot.
 
2.1 mile drive to my 'base'. I clock in there, and then if I'm doing visits to another branch then my fuel is paid for from there. I'd hate to have a commute of more than 30 minutes.
 
Weston near Crewe > Stoke is anywhere between 20 minutes- 45 minutes depending on traffic either side of the M6

24mile round trip in a car that averages 37mpg / 380 miles
 
20 min walk to station.
25 min train journey
3 min walk to work

All for £37 a week and the chance to play the Southern rail lottery.
 
Last job was field based so travel time was included in working hours, bar the occasional traffic delay meaning I'd be late by 30 mins or so getting home.

I now work from home, could never do a long commute (1hr plus each way) just seems like such a waste of time.
 
About 80-90 minutes (although that includes a 20 minute pleasant walk to the station that I choose to do rather than drive). Cost is around £3500 a year. I work from home a couple of days a week as well though. My commute isn't a waste of time, I read, listen to music and annoy people on WhatsApp with train photos and check ins.
 
35mins on atlantic highway 3 days a week then 4 days alternating maybe 44 miles round trip and car does high 50s mpg
 
15ish miles each way, takes around 45-50mins.

costs around 40/week in petrol and what ever wear to the car..
 
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