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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where are people living that have 2 hour commutes each way? When my kids were in school, we lived near Olney and I left home at 6:15. Dropped off kids at morning care in Bethesda around 7, in office by 7:30-7:45. Left work at 4:30 and picked up at 5:15 or so. Sports practices were generally around 5:30pm or so because the coaches were working parents with in-office jobs.  I did that schedule 5 days a week for years.[/quote]

Frederick. No, I don't have a McMansion. We live here to be down the street from my spouse's job, after a few years of living closer to mine. I got tired of commuting and searched for a fully remote job a couple years ago, joke's on me. [/quote]
Gosh, I do feel for you to have to hike in from Frederick. Hindsight being 20/20 and all, but DH would have had a reverse commute. [/quote]

Sure, hindsight is 20/20. There was NO REASON in 2019 to think that hybrid work, telework on days with medical appts, etc would totally vanish from jobs that allowed it.

Anyway, we looked into that option when we moved. Given our salaries, the closest we could get was an hour commute for me by metro, and 45 min to an hour commute for DH by car. We decided it would be better to have one parent very close by, and that it should be the parent whose job we could afford to live very close to, who had to be in person every day. Again, it made sense given the policies in effect, CBAs, and trends over the last decade.

"Hindsight is 20/20" actually does mean that you have different information to make decisions with afterward. [/quote]

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