What would you consider to be a reasonable commute?
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Anonymous
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Under 30 minutes is manageable.
My husband has a 10 minute commute by bike, or 25 minutes on foot, and that's great. |
Anonymous
| I think an hour. Mine is an hour door to door but that’s walking, metro, and then walking. If I had to drive/sit in traffic for an hour I would probably be unhappy. |
Anonymous
| the older i get the less patience i have for sitting in DC traffic. now i build my schedule around convenient travel times. for me, an hour in the car is a bad, bad commute. 30 min or less is typical. |
Anonymous
| 30 minutes max. 15-20 even better. A good friend of mine has been doing Gaithersburg to Reston for 12 years, same company. Sounds soul-sucking to me. |
Anonymous
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Reasonable: anything under 30 mins
Anything 35+ is torture to me. I've been blessed that all my jobs were close to my apartments. |
Anonymous
100000% |
Anonymous
| 40 minutes at absolute max. And I mean real 40, not ideal 40. I used to commute about 70 minutes each way and couldn’t take it. I did it 5 years. Then I moved and it’s 25 minutes on a good day and 40 minutes on a bad day. |
Anonymous
| I live 4 blocks from work. DH is a one mile bike ride. But we are about to trade the dc life for the burbs, so that’s the end of that. Yes- we will have real commutes- but we will also have decent public schools. DS has ASD and no way in HELL would I trust him in dcps. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Great rule. |
Anonymous
| Going from md to DC everyday and it can be anywhere from 45-1.5 hrs. In light traffic days I've made it in 35 min which then really pisses me off. I actually need to leave this job but for the moment I'm stuck. The paycheck is not wort the drive. |
Anonymous
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I find I get annoyed after 1/2 hour commute. Currently, my commute is 25 minutes -- but only because I go in at around 6:30, and leave at 3:30. If I am late, I am annoyed.
In the past, I have had commutes as long as 1 hr (Annapolis to Arlington), and as short as 10 minutes (Vienna to Tysons). When I was younger (20's, 30's), I could handle the commute better. Today, in my 50's, I look at it a a waste of time. And time is the one thing that I do not know how much I have, but I know it is finite. |
Anonymous
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My commute was 30 minutes max door to door last year. This year, it's about 60 minutes in the AM and 90-120 mins in the PM. I hate it.
I lost my job and took a pay cut at my new one. I can't afford to rent in a comparable area in the city, so I had to move out to the burbs. What I find more annoying is that I can get in and out of the city in about 30 mins on the weekend, but it takes almost triple that on the weekday. |
Anonymous
| Straight from home to work is about 10-12 minutes (3.5 miles). Of course, when I do the kid drop off and pick ups it can stretch to 30-40 minutes depending. I realize how lucky I am. I could not handle a very long commute - I think I would go crazy. Of course, if I had too.... you do what you have to do. |
Anonymous
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In a car where I am driving - 45 minutes max - that is already 90 minutes of driving a day. On public transit, I will go up to 60 but again that is an extra 2 hours a day. I try and get a bit of something done to better use that time.
I much prefer a short commute and would sacrifice other things for a short commute. It takes so much time away from home. |