Commute times a poll of sorts

[Jalapeñomel]

As we are house hunting in a major metropolitan area, a poll about commute times:

1) How long is your current commute?

2) Do you commute by car or PT?

3) What is the furthest commute you’d consider if the house, school, and neighborhood was perfect?

4) do you live in a big or little city? Suburbs or rural?

[flygirl]

1-pre-Covid 45-50 min
2-car, it would take me 2 transfers and a 20 min walk to take public transportation.
3-I’m at my limit now. I hate traffic so I couldn’t be in a car more than just shy of 2 hrs a day.

[just]

1. and 2. 10 minute bike, 15 minute car, 30 minute walk
3. 30 minutes. I have a very low tolerance for commutes
4. Second largest city in New England. My street would be considered Urban because of it's proximity to busy areas of the city, but having grown up in bigger cities it's really not - it's all SFH.

[erbear]

1) How long is your current commute? 20 minutes (9 miles)

2) Do you commute by car or PT? car (husband uses the train to get into the city)

3) What is the furthest commute you’d consider if the house, school, and neighborhood was perfect? 30-45 minutes, depending. Like you, I'm a teacher. When I was commuting ALONE and highway from the city, I was driving 50 minutes and I loved it. It was a brainless drive and I had quiet time. Now, with kids and a city commute, I wouldn't want to drive more than 30, and even that's pushing it.

[goldengirlz]

My commute is about 50-ish minutes. It’s about 15 minutes of driving, 20 minutes on a subway, 10 minutes of walking and the rest just parking and waiting for the train.

My H has the same commute time but all driving (and in the opposite direction.)

I think I could do up to an hour. I once commuted 90 minutes and it nearly broke me.

ETA: It helps that H and I switch off on pick up duty. I hate watching the clock and feeling rushed but it’s only EOD.

[picksthemusic]

1 - 5-7 minutes, depending on traffic and lights.

2 - Car

3 - 30 minutes.

4 - Suburb/outskirts/unincorporated part of a large city.

[Jalapeñomel]

Good point about city traffic vs highway traffic. I was commuting to the Bronx, and as soon as I hit the outskirts, it was like a free for all. Incredibly stressful, and I wouldn’t do that again even if it was only 15 minutes.

[redheadbaker]

1) How long is your current commute? - 7 miles from home, to drop DS off at school, to the office - takes about 20 to 30 minutes depending on traffic.

2) Do you commute by car or PT? - by car.

3) What is the furthest commute you’d consider if the house, school, and neighborhood was perfect? - I used to say an hour, but now I'm spoiled and my limit is 30 minutes. The primary reason we moved was to shorten my commute (used to take 1 hr 15 minutes in good traffic).

4) do you live in a big or little city? Suburbs or rural? - surburbs of Philly

[scm1011]

1) How long is your current commute?
35 minutes


2) Do you commute by car or PT?
walk 10 minutes, subway for 20 minutes, walk 5 minutes


3) What is the furthest commute you’d consider if the house, school, and neighborhood was perfect?
I'd be willing to take a longer train ride. My Brooklyn to Midtown commute was 60 minutes door to door and it was ok. I would not consider a house that required a driving commute in any capacity (even if its drive to a train station).


4) do you live in a big or little city? Suburbs or rural? little city adjacent to Boston

[Velar Fricative]

1) How long is your current commute? 15-20 minutes. DH’s is 25-30 minutes.

2) Do you commute by car or PT? Both of us by car.

3) What is the furthest commute you’d consider if the house, school, and neighborhood was perfect? This is the shortest commute I’ve had and my furthest was 90 minutes door to door on PT, which I’ve done for most of my career. I actually didn’t mind that because I worked in Manhattan and enjoyed being in Manhattan every weekday.

4) do you live in a big or little city? Suburbs or rural? Big city, but a more suburban part of it.

[mags]

1. 5-7 min. (my husband does 45-1 hour when in office)
2. Car
3. 45 min.
4. Suburb-outside NYC

[janegold]

1. 40 mins in the AM, 50-55 mins in the PM (it’s only about 16 miles outside of the city but all back roads).

2. By car

3. I would not consider a commute much longer than this. We recently moved from downtown where we lived a mile from my office and I walked. The town we moved to had been off the table for us when we were house hunting until I got the ok to WFH 3x a week. I don’t mind the drive a couple times a week (I actually enjoy the alone time to catch up on my audiobooks!) but wouldn’t do it everyday.

4. We live in the burbs outside of a decently sized city (Boston).

[ssmjlm]

1. 30 mins with kid drop off in the morning, 20mins on the way home.

2. Car

3. Maybe 45mins max. I used to drive from MD to DC daily and it took anywhere from 45mins to 90+mins and it was stressful and so much wear/tear on my car. Plus gas costs, so expensive!

4. Suburbs. I don’t even get on a highway for my commute.

[pandorica]

1) 20 min

2) car

3) our limit when house hunting was 30 min

4) medium sized city? Well, small compared to NYC. We moved far enough out to be more suburban/rural

[VillainV]

35-45 minutes by car. Can be as low as 30 min really early in the morning (like 5:30). PT isn’t an option.

I listen to lots of podcasts and audiobooks and talk on the phone to my parents and sister a few times a week, so it’s not that bad.

The trade off is that we are about 2 miles/5min from C’s school and H’s work.

45 min is right on the outer edge of how long I want to commute.

We are in a rural area on the outskirts of a medium-sizes city, MCOL.

[sapphireblue]

1) How long is your current commute?
Maybe 5 minutes. I commuted 1 hour each way to this same job for 10 years and then we moved to the town where I worked.

In the morning I didn't mind the commute. I wasn't a morning person and it gave me time to listen to NPR, call my best friend, and wake up. On the way home I just wanted to get home.

2) Do you commute by car or PT?
Car but I could walk in nice weather. No PT here.

3) What is the furthest commute you’d consider if the house, school, and neighborhood was perfect?
30 minutes, maybe 40.

4) do you live in a big or little city? Suburbs or rural?
It's a town, pop. of 25K. Not a suburb of anything bigger. We are a beach town with a lot of rural parts also.

[wildrice]

1. I've been working from home since we moved here, but I estimate it to be somewhere between 35-45 minutes, with the potential for a longer commute if there is an accident (not terribly uncommon, I would expect this at least a couple of times a month).

2. Car

3. Honestly, this is it - 45 minutes is pushing it. I'd prefer 30 minutes or less, but my H was commuting 1.5 hours each way so we moved here to cut that down a bit. Our jobs are nowhere near each other, unfortunately.

4. We live in a suburb, and we both work in suburbs. We are in the Baltimore/DC metro area, though, so proximity to cities definitely impacts our commute times. If there was no traffic and my H could park at work vs having to take the train in from a commuter parking lot, we'd both be about a 30 minute drive from our respective employers.

[TR]

I'll answer for my most recent job:

1) How long is your current commute?
15 - 20 minutes, non-highway


2) Do you commute by car or PT?
car


3) What is the furthest commute you’d consider if the house, school, and neighborhood was perfect?
Highway, non-bumper-to-bumper: 40-60 minutes. I actually miss the time to listen to podcasts, lol. Stop & go non-highway: 30 min


4) do you live in a big or little city? Suburbs or rural? I live in a suburb of a big city (Dallas) and was commuting to another nearby suburb, both north of the city.

[Susie]

1.  15-20 mins by car.  8-9 miles.

2.  A mix of car, city bus, and bike, although mostly car in recent years.  Until COVID, H and I worked in walking distance of each other and carpooled.  We used PT (bus) from the park & ride if we needed to go separately because we only had one parking space downtown.  I used to bike to work part time, but stopped a few years ago when @@ we had kids and enrolled them in daycare downtown with us.  I am ok with urban cycling but there is no bike lane and I'm not comfortable doing that with the kids in a double bike trailer.  It makes me too wide, to sluggish to respond/change speeds/change directions, and just feels too risky.  I do look forward to biking to work being a thing again.

3.  Probably 30 mins, maybe 40 by car.  Our last house was 40 and I'd rather not go back to that.

4.  Suburbs of a small city; work downtown.

[yentl]

1) How long is your current commute?
20 min walk, 5 min drive


2) Do you commute by car or PT?
I walk, sometimes I bike and rarely drive if the weather is terrible.


3) What is the furthest commute you’d consider if the house, school, and neighborhood was perfect?
30 min by car


4) do you live in a big or little city? Suburbs or rural? Big city

[wambam]

1. 15 minutes
2. Car
3. 30 minutes
4. Small city

[sillygoosegirl]

Pre-COVID, 45-50 minutes

Bike (though PT and car also took about the same amount of time during rush hour)

I'd consider up to about 1 hour active commute (walking/biking) or PT, up to about 20-30 minutes driving.

Urban suburb

[Roc A Bee]

1. 40ish mins each way
2. Car
3. This is my max
4 I live in a medium size city (400k) and work in a rural community (<20k)
ETA: this is all highway driving. I think I go through 3 stop signs and 1 light during my entire commute. But because I can get behind slow work trucks and there’s limited passing, this can still be frustrating. I couldn’t do 40 mins of stop lights though.

[sugarbear]

1. 8 minutes each way
2. By car
3. I think I would hate longer than 20 minutes.
4. Seattle proper.

[thebreakfastclub]

Mine is 30 min in the morning, no traffic, and 40m in the evening with some traffic. I'm on the beltway of my city, 21 miles.

It's all car and 90% highway, but I carpool with my coworker so it's only half time driving.

This is the farthest I'd do, although the carpool aspect makes it really nice. Also my H works closer, so although I do daycare pickup some nights, if I can't it's no big deal for him to do it.

[eddy]

1- 10 minutes
2- car
3- 20 minutes (I despise commuting)
4- mid size city

[cville]

1) How long is your current commute? 20 minutes pre-Covid, 10 now on the rare occasions I go in

2) Do you commute by car or PT? Usually car, sometimes PT

3) What is the furthest commute you’d consider if the house, school, and neighborhood was perfect? 30-45 minutes. I did 1.5-2.5 hours each way for awhile after college and I will never, ever do that again.

4) do you live in a big or little city? Suburbs or rural? Small city that physically touches a big city.

[cjcouple]

50 mins
By Car
I am at my max
Rural but I work in a city.

Honestly, 30 mins or under is ideal but I can do the 50 mins I have now because it is an easy drive. I always travel away from the sun so there is never glare. I also get off the highway right before any city traffic builds up. Only time I get caught in traffic is due to an accident or construction. Makes a huge difference.

[pandora89]

Aug 25, 2020 18:01:59 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

As we are house hunting in a major metropolitan area, a poll about commute times:

1) How long is your current commute?

2) Do you commute by car or PT?

3) What is the furthest commute you’d consider if the house, school, and neighborhood was perfect?

4) do you live in a big or little city? Suburbs or rural?

We are moving this week from the city to a close suburb.

My current commute is 25 mins door to door, walking to the subway, subway and then going up to my office (the building I work in is right on top of a subway station). Once we move and I go back to work the commute will be around 50 mins to an hour depending on how I get there. I can take a commuter train and walk, or drive to the subway and take that. H drives into work and works all over the city so I would most likely drive in with him and have him drop me off at a subway station.

I think the longest commute is what we will be moving too, I don’t think I could do more than an hour. Even the hour I was hesitant to do but going to try it out. My work has also implied that when I do return the WFH options will be more flexible.

[rosiebear]

Current commute by car is about 10 minutes.

I used to have a 45-50 minute commute on the interstate, so it wasn’t too terrible except during snowstorms. That same 45 minutes in city traffic would’ve been horrible.