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wooÐs 01-18-2010 06:56 AM

How far is your drive to work / school?
 
Considering registering me for some FT schoolin' soon. But the closest college available for the sort of thing I'm interested in is 54 miles away. I'm not sure I could swing this or not. There's a difference between being stuck in Atlanta traffic for an hour and driving for an hour I think.

How far's your drive?

Meditrina 01-18-2010 07:04 AM

I am 15 miles away from work. It takes me 30 minutes to get there on a regular day. 15-20 minutes when school is out.

The_Jazz 01-18-2010 07:06 AM

I live almost exactly 10 miles from my parking garage. In the mornings, it's about 20 minutes (I'm usually out the door about 6:05 or so). At night, if I leave right at 5 and there's not a night game at Wrigley, it's between 30 and 45 minutes, depending on how close to 5 I managed to leave and the lights.

ShaniFaye 01-18-2010 07:07 AM

I'm exactly 10 miles from driveway to work parking lot, I leave at 530 am and Im at work by 550 am

and yes, there is a huge difference between driving for an hour and atlanta traffic

Baraka_Guru 01-18-2010 07:20 AM

I work 15 paces from my bedroom.

Redjake 01-18-2010 08:10 AM

3 miles from work, 53 miles from school. I work full time but recently started grad school for my MBA. Takes about 7-8 minutes to get to work with traffic (right through center of town). The 53 mile drive to school is only one night per week, takes about 45 minutes.

wooÐs 01-18-2010 08:50 AM

Interesting^

This would be 4 days a week. And I'd have to schedule classes to be during the day or evening so I'm not going back and forth. Just not quite sure it's practical yet.

LoganSnake 01-18-2010 08:55 AM

Eleven miles to work. I wouldn't drive more than that for the amount I get paid.

snowy 01-18-2010 09:00 AM

To work? Exactly 1 mile. To school? Well, campus starts about half a mile away and spreads out from there. Suffice it to say, I typically commute by bicycle. It's actually faster than driving a car and attempting to find parking at school.

And yeah, you can do the commute thing if your classes are bunched together. I know of a few people who have had to done similar commutes. And I don't know what school you are looking at, but I do know my school offers a lot more classes tailored to commuters who only come once a week than it used to--I would think a similar trend is occurring elsewhere.

Borla 01-18-2010 09:17 AM

This morning it was about 35' or so. I'm working from home.
Tomorrow I go into the office, so about 16-18 miles each way.
Wednesday I go to a customer's factory, so about 185 miles one way, returning home on Thursday after making a couple other stops at other customers.
Friday is about 150 miles each way (doing both same day) to another customer's place.


I have a company SUV, and the drive time is also my work time, so it doesn't really bother me.

LordEden 01-18-2010 09:25 AM

I'm 4 miles away from work. It takes me around 5-10 to get there depending on how many red lights I hit or how much traffic there is on the way. Usually 5 minutes max.

In the past I've traveled up to 30 minutes for work, but I was making more money then. For school? Maybe 30, but I'd have to set it up to be able to have a full course load for the day and not have lots of breaks. My car can't really handle more than that.

genuinegirly 01-18-2010 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowy (Post 2749382)
... To school? Well, campus starts about half a mile away and spreads out from there. Suffice it to say, I typically commute by bicycle. It's actually faster than driving a car and attempting to find parking at school.

Same general trend for me, though it's about a half mile to my building. The school gym is ~1000ft from my door. It's insanely convenient to live so close to the university, but then again I travel back and forth so frequently that it's a bit of a necessity.

Several of Tt's classmates in the MBA program commute 30+ miles to school daily. It's 4 days/week, 9-5. They run into problems getting to classes when weather is bad and roads aren't cleared. Many of them choose to rent a little apartment by the university so they don't have to drive as far daily - they'll stay close to the school during the week and travel home on weekends. It only really seems to work because several of them share an apartment and rent is cheap.

SecretMethod70 01-18-2010 10:07 AM

35 miles from work, takes an hour and a half in Chicago rush hour.

hawker rider 01-18-2010 10:13 AM

LOL I can't be off much help here.

My commute involves a 2 hour drive followed by an 8 hr flight...

LoganSnake 01-18-2010 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hawker rider (Post 2749397)
LOL I can't be off much help here.

My commute involves a 2 hour drive followed by an 8 hr flight...

Each way daily?

Salem 01-18-2010 11:29 AM

Wow. I really don't envy any of you. I have a 4 minute walk to the bus stop, then a 10ish minute bus ride to school. Roughly, 15 minutes. I leave the house at 9:20AM, I'm at schoolbefore 9:40.

Jove 01-18-2010 12:21 PM

11 minutes to work and 30 minutes to school (if I actually attend since most of the lectures are recorded and I can watch them online)

Aladdin Sane 01-18-2010 12:32 PM

I work in my home office. It is fifteen steps from my back door. I love it.

Vigilante 01-18-2010 12:36 PM

I commute 35 miles one way. I work nights so that means I drive 35 miles to get home at 2AM. I see interesting things at 2AM on fridays and saturdays :)

I have to fill my tank every 4 days.

hawker rider 01-18-2010 01:23 PM

Hey LoganSnake,

I work 11days on/7off, so basically twice a month up and back.. But I do have a lot of vacation time that will cut down my commuting...basically 4 times a year a block of 25 days consecutive off...and salary is super, combined with a top job!

MexicanOnABike 01-18-2010 03:07 PM

under 4km. don't get me started with miles.
5min when the lights are good to me. 10 when it's a busy traffic day.

7min on my bike. So most of the time, i will take my bike and save myself a bit of time.

Shell 01-18-2010 03:33 PM

20 minutes....but it's worth it because I love, love, love my job :love:

Plan9 01-18-2010 03:37 PM

~45 in no traffic, ~90 in shit traffic.

I do it to save money on rent.

Xerxys 01-18-2010 03:39 PM

hehe, 4 mins to work. 20 to school. I love my life.

uncle phil 01-18-2010 04:10 PM

aunt phil's commute is about 17 steps...

me? it depends on which golf course; otherwise, when i'm sub-teaching, about 4 miles...

blahblah454 01-18-2010 04:10 PM

When I lived in the city and went to school and worked it was about 80 min to school in traffic, 40 in no traffic. 30 min to work.

Now its 40 min to the office, but I only go to the office probably two days out of the week, the rest of the time I drive to oil sites, so that driving is all part of the job.

telekinetic 01-18-2010 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Plan9 (Post 2749488)
~45 in no traffic, ~90 in shit traffic.

I do it to save money on rent.

This exactly, but substitute "to live on a better side of town nearer my parents for babysitting purposes"

Sue 01-18-2010 04:25 PM

10 miles to work, ~28 to school, both in different directions. School 3 days/week, Work 2 1/2 days/week

Charlatan 01-18-2010 04:41 PM

Distance? No idea. It takes me anywhere from 40 to 60 minutes door to door using the bus (one transfer) and costs less than $2. I could buy a car and make the commute shorter but that would suck. If I am in a hurry I can take a taxi.

dogzilla 01-18-2010 04:45 PM

I have a 45 minute or so 30 mile commute on semi-rural roads to work three times a week. The other two days I work home, so no commute.

cdwonderful 01-18-2010 05:42 PM

1.1 miles

Bear Cub 01-18-2010 05:49 PM

20 minutes on the button, door to door, each way.

ZombieSquirrel 01-18-2010 07:02 PM

25 minutes, but I can do it in 20. I do remember getting to work in 15 minutes. I think I defied the laws of physics that day.

I was just thinking tonight that I should move closer to work and since the majority of my friends live in that direction, but I love my little village.

ASU2003 01-18-2010 07:30 PM

1 km if I take the long way. Half that if I walk and take the shortcut.

Sue 01-18-2010 07:41 PM

I forgot to mention that I also take 4 highways to get to class. Ugh what a PITA. I tried taking some non-highway roads once, won't ever do that again. I can deal with being stuck in traffic.

That being said, the commute in the morning takes a little less than an hour for me.

Leto 01-18-2010 07:52 PM

10.2 km to work. 11.3 km back. I take city streets in the morning - leave at 7 am, get in by 7:20 am, unless i stop at Tim Hortons for a breakfast sandwhich. The return trip I take the highway (the Don Valley parkinglot) which is faster than the city streets going home, because I go south (opposite to the flow of rush hour traffic) and it is actually faster than city street driving, even though it is farther in distance.

I have also run home from work, but that takes about 50 mins ... plus I am sore the next day.

redsneaker 01-19-2010 01:13 AM

Some days I work from home, so it's just a few paces. Other days, from the main office, it's about 15 minutes. I have a reverse commute, which places me going the opposite direction of rush hour traffic. Yay! But I love the days I can work from home even more.

Grasshopper Green 01-19-2010 05:32 AM

45 miles to work, 2 miles to school. When things go smoothly, it takes me 50 minutes to get to work and an hour to get back. I work everyday.

fresnelly 01-19-2010 08:27 AM

14km including dropping off my kids at school and daycare.

CandleInTheDark 01-19-2010 10:15 AM

It used to be a 20 minute walk to school and a 6 hour drive to work. Now it's still a 20 minute walk to a school I don't attend, and current non-existent to work. :(


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