s/o Tell us about your non-monster commute
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
*sigh* are you proud to be the first snarky poster who doesn't answer the question, but simply offers a jerky response? |
Anonymous
|
08:13 Hey, Ballston to downtown, how much do you pay for parking? Would love 20 minutes someday...
I do Clarendon to downtown DC--bus to Clarendon Metro, 10 min metro ride, 10-15 minute walk to the office. 45 minutes if I hit the bus exactly, more like an hour if I walk the stretch between my house and Metro. Not non-monster, but not monster either! 
|
Anonymous
|
9:22
Free parking (paid by employer) but there is a garage on I & ...13 aprox that is 12$ if you arrive before 9am. Commute for me via metro is, on average 45 seat to seat. and a little less than 6$/day. |
Anonymous
Goes to a charter. Seven minute drive to and 10 minutes back. My wife does it and she works from home. 10 minute walk for me. Penn Quarter. |
Anonymous
To make it easy for the snarky posters, let me anticipate the response you'll get to this, in the form of multiple choice: a) Don't you care abotu yotu kids' education? b) All DC schools, charter or public, suck. c) Didn't you read the article about the kid who wasn't prepared for Georgetown? Why would you put your preschooler in that position? d) Why don't you love your children? e) All of the above. Yawn. |
Anonymous
| Moved from DC cause we couldn't take driving 1h (me) -and 1h 45 min (him) to work daily. Now I work less than a mile from home and he works about 30 miles, which means 30 minutes where we live. Child goes to public school and we are much happier now. |
Anonymous
Sorry, you're ruining this one all by yourself. You apparently live very close to a metro station and work practically on top of another metro station, with just one stop in between. Why on earth are you sitting in traffic? |
Anonymous
| 1.2 miles. When I first took the job, it was 4 miles from home, but then the company moved even closer to my house. Sometimes I walk, but often have to pick up kids from school (farther than my job!) so I drive to my free parking. I've been at this job for 10 years and really the main thing keeping me here is I don't want to give up the non-commute and being able to run home whenever I need to to let in service people, etc. The job itself sort of sucks. |
Anonymous
| Bethesda to Rockville, about 3 miles and against traffic (5-10 minutes depending on traffic lights). |
Anonymous
| Crying reading these.... You all are lucky!! |
Anonymous
| 40 minutes - Alexandria to NW DC (Chinatown). |
Anonymous
| North Arlington to Gallery Place. 10 minute drive to my parking garage and maybe a 15-20 minute metro commute. I read on the train and it flies by. |
Anonymous
|
20 minutes, Olney to Rockville, simply because I always leave late and traffic has died down by then . Free garage parking too.
|
Anonymous
This is going to come off as overly snarky, so I apologize in advance . . . but luck has nothing to do with it. Housing isn't assigned by lottery. Everyone who has a short commute has made decisions and prioritized issues which lead to this point - what job to take, comfort with dc public or charter schools, size of house, desire to live in an urban or close in-setting, etc. The list is endless. Everything's a tradeoff. |
Anonymous
Oh good god, really?? You have to argue that? |