Second home 2 hours v 3 hours

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly can’t imagine driving 4 hours through traffic and all you get is mediocre Delaware beaches. You have to really be obsessed with the ocean to find that even halfway worth it.

Most people in the DC area who do this, don't drive at peak times because they don't have to. Ergo, the drive is a solid 2:15-2:30 and not much of an issue.

You hear this all the time but it's just not true. Unless you live in PG County and you're driving in the middle of the night in the middle of the winter, it's not 2 hours and 15 minutes to the Delaware beaches from anywhere in the DMV. At least not anywhere where most people in the DMV who can afford a second home in the DE beaches choose to live.

DP here, our best time from our NWDC home was 2 hours and 5 minutes during an off peak time. It was regularly the 2:15-2:30 the pp indicated.

Nope.

Google maps says it's 2:30 if you leave from upper NW DC at 11:30pm AND drive the posted speed limit to Rehobeth. If you were to drive 5 miles over the posted limit in every area, then you would reduce your travel time by roughly 10% or 15 minutes...it's safe to say many people drive more than 5 miles per hour over the posted limit, but let's settle at 10mph...which now reduces travel time by 30 minutes.

That's a myth. Google Maps doesn't assume you're going at or below the speed limit. It's much more complicated than that. It assumes you're going with real traffic in real time. Nice try, though.

Google Maps calculates travel time by considering multiple factors, including distance, speed limits, real-time traffic conditions, historical traffic patterns, and user behavior. It breaks down routes into segments, analyzes speeds on each segment, and then combines this data to estimate the overall travel time.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:

1. Distance and Speed Limits:
The basic calculation involves determining the distance between the origin and destination and then applying the relevant speed limits for each road segment.

You have to get down to the #5 and below aspects of the algorithm before it starts adjusting based on how you describe...i.e., it's far less important than distance and speed limits.

From where I am to Rehoboth is 128 miles, of which 60 miles is highway where if there is no traffic then one could easily be driving 75+ (and you see it all the time on the beltway and 50) for that stretch.

Ok I will concede that if you drive 75+ years miles an hour for half the trip AND there is no traffic you can drive the 128 miles on two hours.

Sounds like a nice leisurely drive to your second home!

It’s not a particularly scenic drive…this is one area where it is all about the destination and not the journey.

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly can’t imagine driving 4 hours through traffic and all you get is mediocre Delaware beaches. You have to really be obsessed with the ocean to find that even halfway worth it.

Most people in the DC area who do this, don't drive at peak times because they don't have to. Ergo, the drive is a solid 2:15-2:30 and not much of an issue.

You hear this all the time but it's just not true. Unless you live in PG County and you're driving in the middle of the night in the middle of the winter, it's not 2 hours and 15 minutes to the Delaware beaches from anywhere in the DMV. At least not anywhere where most people in the DMV who can afford a second home in the DE beaches choose to live.

DP here, our best time from our NWDC home was 2 hours and 5 minutes during an off peak time. It was regularly the 2:15-2:30 the pp indicated.

Nope.

Google maps says it's 2:30 if you leave from upper NW DC at 11:30pm AND drive the posted speed limit to Rehobeth. If you were to drive 5 miles over the posted limit in every area, then you would reduce your travel time by roughly 10% or 15 minutes...it's safe to say many people drive more than 5 miles per hour over the posted limit, but let's settle at 10mph...which now reduces travel time by 30 minutes.

That's a myth. Google Maps doesn't assume you're going at or below the speed limit. It's much more complicated than that. It assumes you're going with real traffic in real time. Nice try, though.

Google Maps calculates travel time by considering multiple factors, including distance, speed limits, real-time traffic conditions, historical traffic patterns, and user behavior. It breaks down routes into segments, analyzes speeds on each segment, and then combines this data to estimate the overall travel time.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:

1. Distance and Speed Limits:
The basic calculation involves determining the distance between the origin and destination and then applying the relevant speed limits for each road segment.

You have to get down to the #5 and below aspects of the algorithm before it starts adjusting based on how you describe...i.e., it's far less important than distance and speed limits.

From where I am to Rehoboth is 128 miles, of which 60 miles is highway where if there is no traffic then one could easily be driving 75+ (and you see it all the time on the beltway and 50) for that stretch.

Ok I will concede that if you drive 75+ miles an hour for half the trip AND there is no traffic you can drive the 128 miles on two hours.

Sounds like a nice leisurely drive to your second home!

No traffic and adaptive cruise control…the speed you are driving doesn’t make the journey less enjoyable or even less leisurely…it’s getting stuck in traffic jams.

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The DE beaches people need to stop pretending like that drive isn’t a big deal. I grew up in the DC are and that drive was a big deal even when the population was much less between here and there. The bridge is it’s own headache before even thinking about 404.

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Anonymous wrote:The DE beaches people need to stop pretending like that drive isn’t a big deal. I grew up in the DC are and that drive was a big deal even when the population was much less between here and there. The bridge is it’s own headache before even thinking about 404.

Commuting time estimates are the reverse of penis size estimates.

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Anonymous wrote:The DE beaches people need to stop pretending like that drive isn’t a big deal. I grew up in the DC are and that drive was a big deal even when the population was much less between here and there. The bridge is it’s own headache before even thinking about 404.

404 was also a very different road before the Denton bypass was built. That said, if you go in off peak times, 2:15/2:30 is very doable depending on your destination.

[Anonymous]

2 hours is a deal breaker IMO, let alone 3. Ours is just over 75 min away and we have 3 young kids. We spend the full winter and summer breaks, long weekends and random misc weekends here and that’s very doable.

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Anonymous wrote:The DE beaches people need to stop pretending like that drive isn’t a big deal. I grew up in the DC are and that drive was a big deal even when the population was much less between here and there. The bridge is it’s own headache before even thinking about 404.

404 was also a very different road before the Denton bypass was built. That said, if you go in off peak times, 2:15/2:30 is very doable depending on your destination.

You can hit a f ton of traffic east of Denton

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The DE beaches people need to stop pretending like that drive isn’t a big deal. I grew up in the DC are and that drive was a big deal even when the population was much less between here and there. The bridge is it’s own headache before even thinking about 404.

404 was also a very different road before the Denton bypass was built. That said, if you go in off peak times, 2:15/2:30 is very doable depending on your destination.

You can hit a f ton of traffic east of Denton

Absolutely. But PP is correct if you time it right.

[Anonymous]

The good thing about owning a home on DE/MD coast is that you don't have to drive during the rush hours when renters are trying to check in.
2h30m is doable from our house in NW DC to Bethany. We just leave at an odd hour.