How long is your commute/Drive to work

Sometimes i sign in from bed on school holidays, otherwise its a minor inconvenience to drag myself to my home office :D though the times i am in the actual office its a ~15 minutes door to door commute. I'd feel guilty but feel ive more than made up for it in past jobs. tbh the odd time im at a clients office more than a few hours away i quite enjoy the commute (try as the m1/25 does) now im not tied to it on a regular basis.
 
WFH right now but my previous job was 3 to 6 miles depending where I was living at the time and a 15 min drive into the city centre

I’d be much more willing to commute further these days with the expectation that I’d only be required in an office a couple of days a week (current company has no office)
 
I'm just less than 30 miles each way now and can take about 35 to 45 minutes depending on my shift and the time of day (tractors, old farts and weather). It's a lovely non-congested route in the early morning or late at night so just put an audiobook on and let the miles slip away or rock out to something suitable :D.

I've done the Swindon to London commute a few times in a previous job and that sucked - leave at 6:30am, car to carpark, 7am train to Paddington, then the insidious London Underground, then 10 minute walk to arrive at 9am. That's if the trains are working. The same in reverse at 17:30 after work, get home at 8pm. How or why anybody would want to do or put up with that is beyond me, must be paid a fortune.
 
Like many I am WFH. Job is in inner London. It’a about ~7 miles walk / cycle. I generally only go in if it’s important or meeting for beers

Usually, I take the river bus. It’s about an hour but it has its benefits. It’s Uncrowded. Easy to find a space to work from. Mobile network coverage is great if you hotspot for data. It does cost more then trains. Trains etc are quicker too

Generally, about an hour is normally fine to me. If I have to go in less frequently, then I am preparedfor a longer commute. Some colleagues live very far away. They stay in a cheap B+B and will do two or three back to back days in town before disappearing for a month
 
Don't do it any more prior to lockdowns I did 4.5hr round trip 4 days a week. Starting new job on Monday, won't be a regular commute but may be visiting client site or office (4.5hr round trip) from time to time.
 
bainbridge said:
3.5 miles. It used to take less than 15 mins but post lockdown it's getting busier and can take 25 mins. I'll cycle when it gets warmer.
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Reminds me - when I used to live in London commute from Bromley to Croydon regardless of route but usually through West Wickham it was only a few miles but once traffic got busy it wouldn't have taken much longer to commute from my parent's house in the South West like 100 miles away :|
 
Trig said:
I, erm, what?!
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I use a mash of metric and imperial units in daily life, sometimes using both systems at once. It might look weird from the outside, but it works for me. Probably quite a few other British people, since using bits of each system of units isn't hugely unusual in Britain at the moment.
 
Like many others I now mostly work from home and since I have to walk all the way round the bed it's probably about 10metres, last place it was about 5m. Stupid big house doubling my commute. :D When I do go to office it's anything between 45-60min door to door.
 
Unemployed at the moment.

At my old job, it was a car ride to the station, or bike if I got up in time/could be bothered. Train to London, then about a 15 min walk to work.
All in all, on a good day, door to door, it would take about 1 hour and 30 minutes.

I miss everyone at work, but after 10+ years, I don't miss that journey.
 
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