commute question
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Anonymous
| As a parent, how far is acceptable to commute for a regular 9-5 type of job? Not traveling type of jobs. |
Anonymous
| An hour at the absolute max. For me personally 40 mins is my max. I commuted just over an hour for a year and hated it. Switched jobs. |
Anonymous
| An hour |
Anonymous
| agree with an hour, but I am incredibly grateful to only have 30 mins and I've been appreciative of that time on many occasions beyond just being glad that I can get to work by 9 after drop off and home by 5:30. Calls from the nurse to come get my kid, for example. They won't hold a kid for more than an hour, typically. Twice I've been able to finish up a meeting and get to school to pick up my low-grade feverish kid in under 40 minutes. We pay a huge premium and sacrifice a ton of space for proximity between work and home. |
Anonymous
| Half hour for me. |
Anonymous
| I’d say 30 min because that 30 min is likely more like an hour when it comes down to it— going to/from the car, parking, getting settled on either end. An hour commute is really more like 90 min. The door to door time is way more important, and I find that people tend to minimize it. I want to know when I walk out the door exactly what time I’ll walk in to my destination. |
Anonymous
| If you’re both working someone definitely needs to have a commute that’s less than an hour. |
Anonymous
| It’s 20 minutes for me. Commuting is so awful. We live in a much smaller place that I wish we did, but I’d still give up square footage in my house to get back commuting time. |
Anonymous
| To me, the answer is 30 mins. 30 mins to work or school is as far as I will go. |
Anonymous
| Depends on many things, are you the primary parent? Does the job pay a lot/are you wealthy? What is your partners schedule? How old are your kids? All of this would be a factor, although ideally 30mins or less, which can be near impossible to find in the DMV |
Anonymous
| Hour door to door. No sense in counting anything other than a door to door measurement of time. 45 minutes is much better if you can do it though. |
Anonymous
| Less than 30 mins. Commuting is awful, don't even consider anything more than 30 mins. |
Anonymous
| I used to have a commute that stretched anywhere from 45-90 minutes each way depending on traffic. I was always stressed over doing daycare pickups on the days I had to alternate with DH. Now while DH still has a 45-minute commute my office is just a mile away. Very grateful. |
Anonymous
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If youre commuting every day, 35 minutes. If you only go to the office twice a week, an hour is doable.
The key is that one parent needs to be less than an hour. And you need flexibility to make the commute shorter when neccessary like when your kid has a half day or dr appt |