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.

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.

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.

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.

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 wrote:<30 minutes or less unless exercise is involved.

Great rule.

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

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.

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 wrote:I wouldn't do anything over 30 minutes unless I was making very serious bank and there was no possible way to live closer.

100000%

Reasonable: anything under 30 mins

Anything 35+ is torture to me. I've been blessed that all my jobs were close to my apartments.

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.

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.

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.

Under 30 minutes is manageable.
My husband has a 10 minute commute by bike, or 25 minutes on foot, and that's great.