2 hour commute twice a week

I beg to differ. Those are now considered commutable distances, even though those are far away., OH my Dog! Ill take my smaller midwestern city (metro population of about 2.5 million) where I can get to work in less than 30 minutes and I dont need to sell a vital organ so that I can afford to buy a house or rent a decent apartment. Sports game at the stadiums where the bus has to pass adds another hour just to get out of town. *shudder*, Working remote is much better! I pick jobs I apply for (Im lucky to be in a in-demand job so I can be picky) and if Id really have no choice for a job, Id move closer (Im by no means attached to my house, its just a house). Lots of people can handle that, but I cannot. So theres even MORE traffic trying to get there at 8 AM from all the far flung sprawling areas. Everyone is different and your sanity should not be taken up by a commute if it does drive you crazy. Ive also taken the local Transbay bus into the city at other times. I choose to live near my social life instead of near work, but its definitely rough. If youre not willing to move, youll have to switch your hours to off-peak commute times or get a new job. Its especially frustrating in a stick shift because your clutch foot gets so tired. My old boss could not figure out why I hate my 2 hours commute vs his 2 hour commute; mine was all stop and go traffic, his was open highway. If youre lucky and manage to live downtown (because you get paid enough / have rent control and moved in before rent costs skyrocketed) and have a job downtown, you can estimate 30 to 40 minutes, depending on how you get to work. A bit longer than Id like, but far preferable than the hour-plus Id spend trying to get downtown. In this episode they talk about an average day in the life of Georgi Dinkov, vitamin D + vitamin K supplementation, new products Georgi has in the works, ways to . my employee doesnt want to come to work when it snows. Im a slight woman, Asian, in my mid twenties and took the train from LB to DTLA for work. Plus I got hungry on that long commute. Public transit simply isnt accessible enough for most people and most jobs here (although its gotten easier, now that the Expo line is open and stretches to Santa Monica). He had to take the 580 through the mountains to get to Fremont, which is a total bottleneck so it always sucked. I lived in Orange County a couple of decades ago, and your commute sounds like then-current reality. By car it still takes an average of 35-45 minutes. My longest commute was when I first started working, and it was just over an hour each way. Good Luck! If you drive from the beach to our house (5 miles) during traffic it can easily take over an hour. The only way I see people make it work is to have jobs you can start really early like be in the office at 6:00 AM and leave work at 2:oo PM. Most people who have those really long commutes are traveling farther than you, or so it seems to me. The lane changes are especially frustrating and bottlenecking, especially when youve got lots of trucks on the road (e.g., the I-5/110 junction). DH and I also get dinner every night together, Im able to workout more and so is DH (since Im home earlier and can keep Tiny Human alive so he can go to the gym). Ive got two young kids I never get time to myself at home before their bedtime. June 29, 2018/ Jim Parker What was the biggest news in the world of cycling in 2017? Im lucky in that I can afford to live about 10 miles away from where I work, but before that, I had to live about 30 miles away from work because thats what my family could afford. If I hit traffic at the wrong time, it could take me 1.5-2 hrs to make what was normally a 25-30 minute drive. Traffic where I live is rough. We live between OC and LA, but he commutes into OC (17 miles). Its a perfect storm. I should have been tipped off by the fact that the HOV lanes run from 5 am to 7 pm both directions seven days a week. The same commute by public transit would have been 1.5-2 hours (with a transfer) minimum. This one lady lived down in San Jose- not too far, but right down the dreaded 880. Lordy, I hope someone is watching. They say the key to happiness in LA is a short commuteits totally true. Were going to hit horrendous traffic no matter which route we take and will likely get there the same time either way. What I have found in many cities Ive lived, including Los Angeles, is that even though a circuitous surface route might be slightly more miles, it can often be quicker than taking the freeway. *Except for the time I was without a vehicle for awhile and that 20 minute commute turned into an hour and a half bus ride. I did a 15 hour a week commute for 6 years, now OK that's probably on the high side of what you'd want to do but it was perfectly doable. I once lived 45 miles from work, and I didnt mind it because I felt like it should take ~1 hr, and it did. Thank you so much for posting my question, Alison. Me personally, Im taking a vanpool from the IE to the OC. LA would only be about 100k, but F that. Total travel time: 12 hours. Long hours, stress and the commute just made it unsustainable. My thought being, whats the point of living somewhere nice if youre not home enough to enjoy it? I agree that this is a great idea when possible! I did jump and scream at least once, though, getting wary looks from other commuters, heh. haha, i had to leave. Infrequent trains that are rarely on schedule, over-populated stops that take 2-3x as long waiting for people who dont fit to step off. In the beginning, he had these super long commutes. I remember talking to the kids at the company (and they were kids) who were *horrified* at the idea of living so far outside the city, I was like babies it will take me less time than it does now *and* I wont be spending 1/2 my salary on a tiny apartment. It sucks. Yes close to normal for a lot of So Cal. The return trip is about 45 minutes if I leave before 5:00 and an hour if I leave after. Not entirely true- it depends on where in the Bay Area- and if you can afford to be 30 min away- I was in Solano County- and wages are on the low side- it would have made more financial sense for me to look in Contra Costa- but that commute was 45-90 minutes one way depending on the way the Traffic flowed (and I wouldnt have made nearly enough to move to Co-Co county). That sounds completely normal. Our company used to be joined to an office in San Fran and some people there commuted AT LEAST 2 hours to work and back each day. As someone who moved from sunny Florida to the Midwest, I definitely had conversations with my Midwest-raised then-boyfriend that ran along the lines of this amount of snow is very common and people do learn to drive relatively safely in it. When you move somewhere very different, knowing the local norms helps you know what you might be able to get used to, and what people might expect of you if you dont remind them that youre new and your norms are different. The scariest was a semi truck veering across 5 lanes of traffic to land onto the interstate median and surprisingly no other car was involved. I used to live in LA got a job in Santa Monica and commuted from the Valley. In LA, you have the option to pick a different location for either your home or your job. But that is an unimaginable luxury around here. Mmm, Ive been exposed to a fair amount of crime (professionally, not as a perp or victim, thankfully). Do yourself a favor. A friend posted earlier in the week that median prices in Seattle are now over $800,000. My husband had a commute that often took an hour or more in the evenings. Good luck! I left LA in 1998, and when I visited a few years later, was horrified to discover that rush hour traffic was still going strong at 10pm. In case you do think about moving: The first worst commute is Valley to west side, the second is San Gabriel Valley to Culver City area, and the third worst is south LA/Garden Grove/LB to anywhere north of DTLA, regardless of whether youre going east or west of DTLA. I carried brass knuckles at all times to make myself feel better, but I never had to use them. Everyone driving cars on huge highways is a very inefficient way to get masses of people to and from work, especially considering how bad human drivers are at efficiently using roads (I recommend that everyone watch CGPGeys video of traffic). -A big bag of your favorite nuts and some icy cold water. When I lived in Seattle (suburbs!) I didnt mind that it took an hour, because of course it did. came here to ask the same question: why dont you and OP use an (electric) bike? I used to do a job with a 1.5 hour commute (walk to subway, subway to train, train to other train, bus to parking lot, 15 minute walk across mall parking lot) and when I was complaining to my dad he said bummer. I got an apartment with a roommate 3 miles away from my office after that. All 6 lines get funneled into the same underground stretch of tunnel through the Mission and into downtown, so if one train breaks down, all the others get bogged down as well, and theres congestion in the tunnel just like there would be on a freeway. I live and work in Contra Costa County SF Bay Area, across the Bay Bridge past Oakland. Living in San Francisco has skewed so much my sense of whats expensive that my first reaction to you saying this was Only $2000?!. The Census Bureau published a really interesting working paper on Mega Commuting back in 2013. When I had a job in the San Fernando Valley the commute was fine because the traffic went in the opposite direction. I live AND work in Redwood City (also SF Bay Area) and it takes me 20 minutes. Now I commute 10 miles in 15 minutes, each way. So, a typical commute for me was about 1.5-2 hrs and it absolutely did wear on me. Ive been doing an hour-ish each way for a few years now and am so happy to be moving to an area of town where I can take the train, 40 min door to door. Do you have a backup plan in case you are just too tired to drive home safely some night? January 5th, 2022 show. Some employees live in the next state because a beautiful house is cheaper there, but no jobs. I also paid for more data on my mobile, so I can use Spotify and Netflix. Many of my coworkers did Inland Empire to LA (30-50 mi). You probably wont get this unless you commute in CA, did he say its the first day of spring? oops, replied in the wrong place, but at least it sorta fits here! Of course they are. (Think of Clueless, when Chers dad tells her Everywhere in LA takes 20 minutes. That is just for the city center of LA, like Hollywood to the Westside, on a good day. People love to gripe about traffic, but it only will make you feel worse. This entry was posted in Health & Wellbeing. I got you beat. OP, your best bet is probably living in the Valley (North Hollywood-ish) and take one of the canyons over the mountains. My longest commute in the last 15 years was about 5 minutes. I would keep in mind if the route takes you through rush hour traffic, if it does that normal 2 hour drive might become 3. I used to have that. On days where I have to drive through morning commute traffic to get to appointments and such, it makes me CRAZY. I was going to suggest you try driving to your parents once a week but that's not really possible at the moment. :(. Now I dont even use half of it (but my Wifi at home is bad and so I dont want to get rid of it). Hot, muggy, smoggy, YUCK. The audiobook I am listening to right now is pretty good A Plague of Giants, the first book in Kevin Hearnes new high fantasy series. I was really lucky to find a job on my side of town. One more option Commuter Express buses! Easily 1-2 hours more. :(. What can you sustain long term without living in misery? I spent as much time changing trains as travelling. Front Runner (mass transit) is about 90 minutes. I miss some things about city life, but I dont miss city commutes, and I will have to be living somewhere amazing to go back to that kind of lifestyle. My partner has to go nearly 3 times farther than me but his commute is shorter, because he goes reverse traffic. In New York, my commute, door to door, from Soho to Bushwick was about 35-45 minutes, which included a 20-minute subway ride. An hour if I left any later. The last time I was in Eastern Cali was going to Reno during Obamas first run and Prop 8Ive never wanted out of somewhere so bad and I was just passing through. I grew up in NJ and live in south Florida now, FWIW. That said, how normal or common something is isnt always relevant to whether it works for you! In Boston, it took me 45 minutes (perfectly timed) to 1.5 hours (stupid Red Sox games) to make it the seven-ish miles from home to work. Work is close to the edge of its city so I dont run into much there either. It might be normal for some people, but that doesnt mean accepting it is your only option. Door to door its 1.5 hours each way, but as other said, at least I can read and listen to music on the train. In the afternoons, if I left between 4pm and 6pm, the commute home was an hour or more at least. I used to live in Northridge and worked in El Segundo, 405 all the way. Yes, why? I dont even drive on the weekend ever (we either take my boyfriends car or his motorcycle) so its all gas for work. If I drive, it takes 45 minutes or more. The few times I drove in (a 45 minute drive without traffic), it was 1-1.5 hours each way. So, Ive actually literally known people who have bought small planes and gotten pilots licenses to cut down a 2 hour commute in the ruralish west. I live in LB and there is a subway but it goes through all the not so great neighborhoods Ive taken it during the day before and would just not feel comfortable being on a train with shady folks this early in the morning (Im 51 and look super young despite being 30). I used to commute for 2 hours each way each day, 5 days a week. However, you have to decide for yourself whether or not this is okay with you. The Bay has faster commutes than SoCal, in part because theres more commuter rails and theres more carpooling and carpool incentives). I was thinking it would be easier if she did it near work but shes already doing that. Being able to be home at 5:30 and have dinner and a life after work is worth so much more than money to me. Weho is not near a freeway and you have to drive the dreaded 405. Ill be sure to check those out! I actually have longer hours at my current job, but spend *less* time on work+commute. Lombard to Deerfield is a haul, congrats on finding something closer. But LA is just so sprawling, and laid out in such an anarchic fasion, I cant imagine a transit system that could resolve these issues (at least in our profit-driven society). I absolutely love the best of both worlds feel it gives me. I am his assistant and I understand bringing up flex hours for my role will 99% not work. Really helps clear our evenings. My sister used to do Pomona to Glendale, but she luckily had an early start. I have a ten minute commute. Yeah that is the thing for me. Ive always thought it would be awesome to be able to walk to work! Its not my favorite thing in the world but Im willing to do it for family reasons, and given how many people I see taking the train with me I know Im not the only one! Even a cab will take me about 30 minutes due to rush hour traffic. Signed, You know what your time is worth to you. i would quit immediately (if moving is not an option). In the mean time, he goes in pretty early and leaves early (like 7 3) in order to avoid some of the worst of the traffic. When I moved recently I looked for an apartment in easy commuting distance. Oh, Los Angeles! I didnt understand traffic until I moved to Los Angeles for a few years after college it was the first time I saw with my own eyes how there could be too many cars on the road. (I get to keep whatever I dont spend.) Someone I knew moved to LA shortly after college and lived there for almost 15 years. Some (most) days there is still gridlock at 7 pm. Be sure to practice those commutes in rush hour before you take a job. Public transit in San Francisco is really gross. I didnt want to go ahead and find a place in Anaheim and then find out I was gonna have to commute to Burbank every morning. Some days its longer. Part of the reason for this is that DC obviously has a lot of federal employees, but rent in the district (and even just outside of it!) If theres been a wreck, it could take me 45 minutes to an hour to get home. Not worth it. I love my 30 minute commute on laid back country roads now. Its why I came back the one time I moved away. That was one train ride with a walk on both ends. You will feel like a whole new person when you find a reasonable commute. Theres a reason why people in Southern California give distances in time and not in miles. I work in NYC and live in a suburb about 35 miles away. That is 46 miles each way which took me 1 hour 45 mins on good days and 2 hours just about every single other day. Excellent point. Im pretty sure I could walk three miles in an hour. LA traffic was nowhere as bad as the 401 in the Toronto area. They let us go when they got bored, without any harm, but its an experience I will NEVER forget. Thankfully, he likes to listen to podcasts and audio books, so he wont mind as much (I cant listen to them 30 seconds in, and my mind wanders and I miss the whole thing). Ive been fortunate in seeking work close to public transit. 2+ hour commutes are not OK for a lot of people and you sound like you are one of them. They take an average of 10 years to complete. My hours are definitely not flexible (ideally Id be working 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. I absolutely cannot leave after 4 p.m. without hitting a majorly clogged highway any highway that leads out of where I work) and my boss likes to come in/stay late. to me. I wouldt be home until 8:30-9. It can be normal just off of congestion. Eventually, I found a gym near work, and would go there and get my workout in and wait for traffic to die down. Thats the primary reason why I left Seattle. We decided we didnt want to pay 2-3x the housing costs that were paying now. However, I used to commute down to South Lake Union every day, and the commute was easily 2 hours each way, sometimes longer. If you can move closer or even just to a better positioned location (closer to freeway access or a less clogged entrance, just closer in general) or seek a new job that is closer to where you live, that is 1000000% percent a good idea. I now live 9 miles from my work and my commute is 45 minutes. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/california-today-super-commutes-stockon.html, Link is in moderation, but the article is called California Today: The Rise of the Super Commuter. CanadaTech19 4 yr. ago Day. Have you looked into taking the train/subway? However, on days with excessive traffic or if there was an accident (which happened often), my commute could be between 3 to 4 hours. Most of the people I know live pretty far away from their workplaces here because thats just the nature of average wages and cost of living. Also, it looks like the Blue Line will be temporarily shut down. But Im not one to just complain so Im actively looking for a new opportunity to better suit what I want. If I work 8-5 or 8-4:30, its closer to an hour each way. My commute to work takes about 30 minutes but going home takes about 45. I was in the same situation when I started my job, thankfully I can now work at home part of the time. Although, I mean, I know of a couple of people who commute from Modesto to the city, and thats like2.5 hrs or something, so there are always those who are willing to go to extremes. Anytime train tickets An Anytime train ticket is a flexible ticket that allows you to travel at any time of the day. East Bay, Walnut Creek, Concord, Tri-Valley area to San Jose/Peninsula is easily 2 hours. I commute a total of 4 hours a day to London from my home town. That is 48,000 miles on your car each year (just for work, closer to 52,000 all in). I can definitely see where doing it on public transit would make this sort of commute much more bearable, as then what would be windshield time on a car commute can then be used for other more enjoyable/productive things. Oh, well be able to visit Griffith Park, no problem well, we visited it, but it took a lot longer than expected. I think its a record. Accept this and stop trying to beat it. 2 hour commute twice a week; 2 hour commute twice a week. 6am hour -- power outtages impact Bellevue/Issaquah and eastern King County after overnight wind storms, still no new Republican House Speaker after 6 votes, US alpine skiing phenom Mikaela Shiffrin is about to topple some career records for women's skiing, Lynnwood WA . But I assume I have fewer choices than you do I have kids, I have a job I wont leave, I have limited money and live in a crazy expensive area. 1) ask for a flexible schedule (which is say is unlikely to work) It would only help for one way, but it would still give you back an hour or so. I would have left a merely very good job a couple of years ago. If its a Friday in the summer, or before a long weekend, it can even be less than an hour. And as AAM said, normal or not, what can you handle? I remember when I magically cut my usual 45 minute commute down to 7 minutes by moving closer. I cannot figure out how the average in Alisons link was calculated 30-40 minutes seems nice but definitely rare in my office! I think it displays a real lack of empathy, to be honest. It gets tiring fast. Repeat. Theyre actually radio shows, but sold on audiobooks on Amazon, so Id recommend Cabin Pressure and John Finnemores Souvenir Programme. The Amtrak trains sometimes have the more convenient schedules, charging outlets, and fewer stops, but they cost a bit more. With construction on I-5 and 99? I could read, listen to music, or even shut my eyes for a moment. I did 45 minutes for a while (not traffic, just distance) and that was rough. One accident in the wrong place and its another 2 hours stuck on the bus. I had a 1.5 mile walking commute for a while that took about 20-25 minutes, so you arent wrong (although that was a relatively flat area of Manhattan depending on how hilly were talking in San Francisco it might be worse). Also consider LA County healthcare jobs closer to where you live Russian is considered a threshold language in the county, so there is a requirement to make written materials and services accessible to Russian-primary or Russian-only residents. (I know theres not just about it.). Exactly. Include the Commute Cost Calculator on Your Own Website! Driving that distance I honestly had instances (both in the morning and at night) where I was about to pass the hell out at the wheel and kind of had that call of the void thing where your brains tells you to just close your eyes for ooooonnne tiny second. I am NOT a commuter and the absolute max for me would be half hour. Never again. It is the traffic when driving that makes it stressful. If she drives and traffic is good (no accidents), its 45-60 minutes. Before this, I lived in the large city I work in and my commute was about 45 minutes and a combination of walking and riding the subway. 1 Hour is perfectly fine for me however it can differ with others, 2 hours does seem a tad much especially when you have to consider traffic. I did it myself for about 4 years I simply could not afford to live in or around the District so I lived 40 miles outside the city and, on a good day, I was facing a 1.5 hour commute. I did my research but they interviewed me Thursday, offer on Friday and first day Monday they needed someone urgently and I wasnt working so there was no way for me to check the commute during rush hour. I used to live in Santa Clara and commuted 11 miles to Mountain View- 55 minute drive. once you get west of downtown LA), the worse it gets as well. Many of my coworkers who live in LA (and also many in New York) work from home often. I have an hour commute for a contract job I just took and they were super concerned that I wouldnt take it because of that. Intolerable. That area has decent bus support too for the times youre not feeling a 20 minute walk in the rain! The traffic-related info and anecdotes in this thread make me wonder why any sane human would ever want to live there. The answer to that question is no. Southern California isnt well suited to either. If you like music or podcasts or can read while youre in a moving vehicle that might make your commute a lot more enjoyable! I do an hour drive to and from work every day and its fine so 2 hours once a week Im sure will be no bother. Sacramento is its own metro area and is solidly Central Valley/Sacramento Valley, but theres also the Amtrak, which can make the commute less miserable than driving. This is so bad for the environment it makes me want to cry. I remember in 1999 one of my colleagues saying her commute time had doubled even though she lived and worked in the same places. Theres no way you can be expected to keep that schedule up long term and have a good quality of life. FASCINATING. Some people want to be able to afford a big 3-4 bedroom house, so theyre willing to come from farther away in order to live somewhere they can afford that. Echoing all the other sentiments of normal is not necessarily ok or sustainable. I spend my time on the train reading or listening to podcasts/audiobooks while poking at Facebook or whatever. That's fine. If I took surface streets it was about an hour to drive, taking the freeway was 1.5 hours. NYC had an incentive to grow *up*, where LA had more incentive to grow *out*. I like my job a LOT less, but I have my sanity back. Awesome! But those are 6 very, very long miles if you drive. I rent a house, and am SO grateful not to be the one that had to pay for repairs! He did it on the train/tube when he had an injured arm and it took 2.5 hours each way. . whats the weirdest/most inappropriate email signature youve seen? My commute could be close to 1 to 2 hours on a good day. Id walk out of my job before the first week ended. Say you didnt realize the reality of LA traffic and your current situation is not sustainable in the longterm, and what makes sense from here? Ive since moved, but my 10 mile commute still take 30-45 minutes each morning. Thats ridiculous, seriously thats 20 hours a week driving. I have a friend, God bless her, who lived in Running Springs and worked in Woodland Hills. He said as long as he was on the train the commute flew by and they had a great quality of life in PA. People commute 2 hours *within New York* if they cant move and need to keep a particular job. A word of warning about looking for jobs within 10 miles of Long Beach. My times are similar maybe a little shorter in the PM coming from near the 101/92 interchange. I used to drive from OC to Pasadena once a month to sell at the Rose Bowl flea market, but since that was at the literal crack of ass on a Sunday, there was NEVER any traffic! Unfortunately there are none. Its not about what a normal commute is, its about what the OP wants in her life and what shes willing to do in terms of her commute. Im sooo looking forward to it. At least youll be free to do something else during that time. I have 45-60 minutes subway/walking from Brooklyn to Manhattan and I would just like to thank the Original Poster for reminding me that I really dont have it that bad, even though I was cursing out the MTA in my head this morning lol. I work from home and share a car with my wife, whose job is on the other side of townall of 10 minutes away if we go exactly at the speed limit! I had a half hour train ride during which I would chill out / read a book / catch up on the internet because I would always get on the train when there were seats (and I would consider it 15 minutes well spent waiting for the next one if there were no seats). This wont always be the case, and eventually I will outgrow my role and probably be priced out of commuting at which point I will probably have to move house, since there are no good jobs local to me. Isnt the only person to answer this you? Think that commute is under an hour. Yep. Absolutely fine. I would only move back to San Francisco if I could live AND work in the city. Theres a radio sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound, his autobiography Back Story and a radio panel show called The Unbelievable Truth. Also lived in LB, commuted to Newport/CDM. New Yorkers have the longest commute 38 minutes, which is six minutes longer than the average commute time in Chicago. Frances O'Grady of the Trades Union Congress, which published the figures,. Im glad to hear that youre going to leave, OP. So I would draw the line at 1 hour from door to door for driving commute. I started sending applications out last week (of course leaving this job off) and already have a few bites, so Im hopeful. ), Coworkers often wonder why we dont move closerthe cost of living is crazy higher and we wouldnt be able to afford it. Oh, and audiobooks, podcasts and library books. Singing/ screaming along to some really loud music was the only thing left in my bag of tricks. Check out Port of Los Angeles jobs international shipping companies might like your language skills. The commute was just too long and there was no guarantee it was limited to just once or twice a week. So we had three phones going all with different routes. I am in Orange County and it takes me anywhere from 35 minutes to over an hour to drive 14 miles. 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