I've travelled the same route before during rush hour and it varied. Youll just have to figure out what works for you, and is sustainable long-term. Im about 45-50 minutes in the car (9 miles of stop-and-go). One hour one way (two hours both ways, on a good day) has taken its toll, and I cant imagine how bad it can feel if you are taking on a two hour commute. Im sure youve gotten all the advice you need by now, but just one more for you: Ive lived in So Cal my whole life and would never entertain a commute that long. When I was commuting 45 minutes on my bike, even in wintry conditions, I had other young and healthy friends who said I dont understand how you can bike that far, I would never but ultimately I enjoyed it. Yeah, I already do the gym thing. I lived in Murray (south of Salt Lake), since I went to the University of Utah, but I actually enjoyed the commute. I used to live in Hollywood and Im on the freeway 3-4 hours daily. It takes 10 plus minutes to get off my hill which is a mile on some days. In LA, theres options with long surface streets. They drive in early, do their gym time, and thus avoid traffic at its worst in the mornings. I used to commute on public transit and it took me 1.5 hours (on a good day, 1 hour 10). You could cycle 8 miles in 30 mins. For some fellow locals, its a major stressor but it doesnt bother me much. Thats a horrifying commute. I went from a job where I worked from home 100% of the time to one where I commuted 90 minutes (if I was lucky) by train and subway. When I had a job in the San Fernando Valley the commute was fine because the traffic went in the opposite direction. I poked at the route planner; it would have taken Spouse 2 hours to travel the 47 miles from our old home to his workplace, and thats on Front Runner for most of it: Provo Central is too far from the office to walk, and the buses still dont get you within two miles. Study groups may be at odd hours of the day as well. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I was just thinking about my comment, and it occurred to me that my shorter commutes are going to work only. Not that anyone cares but Im in staff housing again and my current commute is about four minutes walk. Not really anything to add, but the only time I have ever had to pull over and cry because of driving, was on an LA freeway. Commute between one and another at your peril. My train service is fairly OK, and I always get a seat both ways. I live in East CoCo County and drive into the Alameda Co. Tri Valley area and it takes me almost 90 minutes one way to drive between 36-40 miles. I live in L.A. and both my husband and my commutes are 35-50 min. My commute is 12 miles. Id take ~40 minute commute on highway or backroads over 15 minutes through neighborhoods and stoplights any day of the week though. Londoners have the longest commute to work in the UK with an average of 1 hour and 19 minutes spent getting to and from work each day. 12 miles to the park n ride and 23 miles on the commuter bus (employer pays for bus pass, so I dont have to pay for parking at work). During rush hour, it took about 1.5 hours ten years ago. What was the most outrageously unwarranted bollocking you After the Hy-un-dai, sorry I mean, Hyun-dai, fiasco, what Press J to jump to the feed. I live in southern MD and commute two counties north of me for workon amazing days (think unicorns farting rainbows rarity) its 45 minutes each way. Most days, its at least an hour. Check out audiobooks! DC area here. I mean, if you work in a downtown office, you prolly wont be able to afford rent anywhere in that general area. And what would be 3am traffic here in SD on the freeways. Before the pandemic, it was a two-hour journey on the subway from Hong Kong to Shenzhen. After sitting in your car for 4 hours, dont waste any of your time TALKING about sitting in your car. 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. They also refuse to go to restaurants on like, Saturday nights, because they expect to wait hours for a table. In LA, you have the option to pick a different location for either your home or your job. Thank you everyone for your advice, it definitely played a part in my decision. That makes it more bearable. I am lucky that I live and work quite near highway entrances/exits, and I work 7-3 (and usually get to work by 6:30). I usually spend a couple nights a week closer to work at a hotel or Airbnb, but thats also kind of a hassle. Today's show will cover all the different aspects of remote work. I hated it, was never home, had zero life, and didnt sleep that much, on top of having a highly stressful job that made me physically ill. I regret doing this to myself, so much. That drive usually takes closer to two hours. Some folks could handle this and would be fine, and others are not okay with this sort of commute. Topping the list of metro areas with high rates of mega commuting are San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA (2.06%), New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA (1.90%), Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV (1.89%), Trenton-Ewing NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area (1.40%), and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA (1.25%). Learned that lesson the hard way! It can be done! I learned that I was not cut out for that kind of commute. I took it as commiseration :). The Bay has faster commutes than SoCal, in part because theres more commuter rails and theres more carpooling and carpool incentives). Total travel time: 12 hours. I have friends who live in Orange County and have two hour commutes each way. Sigh! 2 hour commute twice a week; 2 hour commute twice a week. It really doesnt matter whether I leave at 7 am or at 9 am it takes just as long to get in every day. Youll feel like you have a life AND traffic wont be as much of an issue. Might feel a bit tired that one day but if you can wfh the rest of the time you're more than making up for it. Its a trade-off. I might be spoiled, but I have too much to do to spend half my day in the car. It costs the community when you dont have the energy at the end of the day/week to get involved in groups or organizations that could have gained from your presence and contribution. Is there an accident on I-75 and I might as well pull off and have dinner at a restaurant right now because I will legitimately get home at the same time as if I try to sit here on the highway? Are there poorly placed stops right after the off ramps that jam them up? Someone I knew moved to LA shortly after college and lived there for almost 15 years. But I WILL say that is why most people choose to only look for jobs in their neighborhood, or move for work even within the city. My preferred way north: didnt exist Its just not worth it. I would have left a merely very good job a couple of years ago. If the latter, I would like to gently urge you to consider reconsidering, or at least experimenting to see if reality aligns with your expectations. The holiday rate is payable for all call-back hours which correspond to the employee's regular tour hours (non-overtime hours). I just cross my finger and hope I dont run into anyone too crazy. Im originally from a town that had $600 2 bedroom townhouses just 2 years ago. Some days its longer. Local commuting friends report anywhere from 30 minutes to 1.25 hours. 710 is usually fine. Yeah I agree that thats a SoCal thing. Could easily be an hour. I use The Woodlands Express and i always get home in an hour or less! Just try me.). Because normal does NOT equal ok. I live in OC and my commute into downtown LA would take no more than an hour and a half (I did this for about a year not too long ago) so I dont know how you could live in LA and commute to LA and have it take 2. In Seattle, not so much. But I think the question here is not what is normal, but what works for you and whether the overall benefits of the job outweigh the cons. My husbands commute is about the same in terms of time, but he drives 32 miles. And now I am a champion road trip driver and change my sense of how far is far to go. I grew up in Fairfield/Vallejo area, in fact, for that exact reason it was where my parents could afford to live, and my dad commuted from there to Hayward for years. I once lived 45 miles from work, and I didnt mind it because I felt like it should take ~1 hr, and it did. Would commuting to DC from Fredericksburg be doable if Would having the CompTIA trifecta and two years desktop Would this large litter box with a grate be suitable for Would having the better debt to income and an extra 500 a What do your partners family do that they think is normal What was the dumbest rule your school thought up? My office mate commutes from about 30 miles away and it takes her almost two hours. But I will say even when I worked 12 miles from my home, it was 40-45 minutes. I remember when I magically cut my usual 45 minute commute down to 7 minutes by moving closer. I dont work work from home either, just happen to literally be able to walk to work. Its the sheer number of cars in the road. I had a commute once that varied from 1-2 hours that I had to drive because I lived too far from the train, and it was so draining that I make all of my work/housing decisions based on public transit now. And thats my hard limit! If your boss likes to come in late, and stay late, could you do that as well? I live in Orange County and work in Burbank. I hope that youre able to find another job with a more manageable commute! But people do. Oh and the surrounding areas that are between my home and LA lets just say Im not out to gentrify those plots. 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 have heard good things about the Dresden Files on audiobook / James Marsters narrates them; I read them before my audiobook obsession began or Id probably have listened to them. A 2-hour commute is on the very high side of normal here. Its a perfect storm. It can be normal just off of congestion. Luckily I was able to convert to remote worker status and avoid the whole mess entirely. But Im absolutely gobsmacked to see 26 minutesthats far outside the norm for anyone Ive ever even been friends with in the US. My commute is 15 minutes on foot and Im willing to sacrifice a lot to keep things that way. I said above how I am not sure we do trains that well in this country!! But, thats because I work 7-3 or 3:30 and get in about 6:30-6:45. 20 hours per week! If I drive, it takes 45 minutes or more. I used to live in southern California and that is not unusual. Miss the bus, catch the one 10 minutes later, and have another 30-45 minutes added to the commute. NOPE NOPE NOPE. I zone out or just watch a movie on my phone or just sleep. I used to do 90-100 mins each in the car way every day. Let me guess you drive the 405 every day? And it is just going to continue getting worse. 55-1 hour 15. stop and go. Good weather, goodish food, non-crazy commutes, relatively low housing prices and good jobs available. Theyre the staff of fact checkers from the tv show QI and have a weekly podcast taking a humorous look at facts theyve learnt. Were trying to move up our moving plans by several months because of this. Yes, this. In metropolis areas youre looking at more competition for limited job openings. Loads of people have to do that daily, so twice a week is piece of piss. Im in Atlanta too. This thread has really brought home for me that nobody would live in this deranged city if it werent for the weather :D. And it contributes to the insane housing prices. On the other hand a 1.5/2 hour commute would be very mentally . Even a cab will take me about 30 minutes due to rush hour traffic. I used to work in Century City which is less than 4 miles from my house. Housing is actually cheaper than it was even in Solano County (for what we have/where we are). SO much better. It would be about 10, but businesses here really discourage employees from driving, so I opted for the free bus pass over $18 a day parking! I wouldt be home until 8:30-9. I am wondering who you know and what experiences they had that you felt the need to express this. Compensatory time off is not allowed in lieu of pay for holiday call-back. This was my issue a couple years ago commuting for grad school. This entry was posted in Health & Wellbeing. I now live and work in the same borough of NYC. And I think the commute scene in the movie is hilariously semi-accurate. There are certainly lower income pockets in the inner city, but you cant really apply the typical city center/suburb model to our sprawling behemoth. In my area, two hours is definitely not normal; however, for the people a little further south of me that commute to NYC, its definitely not unusual. In the US it'd probably be considered living close to work! Robert Fratta, 65, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection for the November 1994 fatal shooting of his wife, Farah, amid a contentious divorce and custody fight for their three children. I dont think Natalie is talking about theoretical calculation of commutes on Google Maps or something. Im sorry! Plus, youve probably noticed by now that LA drivers are horrible ignoring red lights, racing up shoulders, etc. But driving, I dont want to spend more than an hour a day in the car. Or he can deal with a long trip from his home to yours to see you. I drove from Lombard to Deerfield 3x a week for 5 years, at least yours is sort of a straight shot. Arrive at work at 8AM Call Now To Get Started at 1 . Im on the east coast and one of my previous jobs was a minimum 45 min. I agree w/ Alison whether its normal or not has no bearing on whether it works for *you*. In New York, my commute, door to door, from Soho to Bushwick was about 35-45 minutes, which included a 20-minute subway ride. Taking the Metro is consistently 90 minutes, except for that time last week when there was smoke in the tunnel and it took 3 hours. Before I moved to Boston, I lived 40 miles away and had a commute that was 1.5-1.75 hours in each direction, depending on train speed/how early I left to get parking, etc. But those are 6 very, very long miles if you drive. It was part of the reason I ended up quitting that job. (But the solution is to drive off peak because there isnt really a public transit option thats any faster than driving during rush hour.). Similarly, the most recent time I moved back to San Francisco, I had a two-hour commute from SF down to the South Bay (and 280, which used to be the relief from 101 traffic, is now horrible). That said, in OC and some parts of LA county, it is entirely possible to work minutes away from your residence, or find alternate routes, or work non-peak traffic hours. I would have it written into some sort of contract, if not you will soon find once restrictions are lifted that will turn into well we could do with you coming in on a Tuesday too to oh well this meeting is always on a Wednesday and you need to be here in person for it and we arent rescheduling and before long you will be doing it every day. Long hours, stress and the commute just made it unsustainable. Ancestry DNA - Am I being stupidly paranoid? I have plenty of colleagues who do commute by car, and I literally have no idea how they have enough energy to put themselves through that daily. Now my commute is 10-15 minutes, depending on when I leave for work. It is a busy show -- so stay tuned. I have a 20 mile drive, 98% freeway, and flex hours, so I can arrive anytime between 7:30 and 9:30 am. Two deer and two totaled cars in less than a year. If you cant move, or change your hours, but you dont want to quit, you should find a way to make that time part of your life: language-learning course, books youve always wanted to read, a new broadway show each week that you learn by heart, etc. If you get off the freeways and drive through the city, youll just get stuck behind red lights, pedestrian traffic and buses. 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! mustang1 Guru Location London, UK 15 Jun 2022 #26 Yeah sure, why not. Also, Im super surprised about how many AAM readers live in LB yay for us! Im very open about the fact that I will not consider a commute that long (whether its by car or PT) ever again. My commute is about 30 to 35 mins, most of that being on the bus. On average each way is an hour due to congestion or accidents on I-95. LB to Weho sounds terrible. My longest commute in the last 15 years was about 5 minutes. Im in the DC area and for a year my commute was 1 hr in the morning and 2.5 hr in the afternoon (on good days) so I feel your pain. Totally fine. 2 hour commute twice a week . The worst might have been a twenty minute commute that required three different trains, travelling in a U shape. link to paper: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/working-papers/2013/demo/SEHSD-WP2013-03.pdf. A common saying here is to live where you work and thats exactly what I did. This is interesting because my husband recently took a job in a middle-of-nowhere college town where the only jobs besides university-related ones are in the service or healthcare industry (neither of which Im qualified for), so Im looking for work in the nearest city, two hours away. Were in Texas, but right now my partners commute by transit is 2 hours each way so I take him in the mornings, which makes the commute for him 30 minutes but easily 70-90 minutes for me round trip, plus my own 10 minute commute to work. Like others have already said you have to do whats best for you and what you can tolerate. Ive since moved, but my 10 mile commute still take 30-45 minutes each morning. I would 100% ask about flex time, and if not granted, change jobs. Id love to know more about working/living there. Oh shit. We live in central NJ and my husband commutes to Manhattan. Id say your 2 hours commute is definitely on the LONG end for LA commutes, but its also not out of the ordinary, considering how bad our traffic is. I also wasnt driving it was two hours on the train so I could relax, read, knit, sleep, whatever, and it didnt feel like completely lost time. I recently moved to southern California from New York City. In most metro areas, thatll mean much, much higher housing costs. In Southern California, the weather is great, the traffic not so much ;~(. 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). FASCINATING. LA does have public transportation systems, HOV lanes and toll roads to help ease traffic, but they are really inefficient, inadequate and expensive as you get further away into the suburbs so there isnt a big incentive for people to use them. 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. My Monthly Commute Mileage: 660.00 miles Gallons of Fuel: 26.40 gallons Spent on Fuel: $ 52.54 Spent on Vehicle Maintenance: $ 48.18 Spent on Tires: $ 0.00 My Cost of Commuting: $600.72 / month ($7,208.64 / year) If you are a human seeing this field, please leave it empty. If she drives and traffic is good (no accidents), its 45-60 minutes. People do work very hard to coordinate their living locations in a place that makes sense for their work locations here for sure. haha). I think normal is relative to where you live. I think it displays a real lack of empathy, to be honest. Now, where I live (Alabama) my commute is like 10 minutes. Think that commute is under an hour. I drive 1.5 hours each way every day for work so 2 hours once a week would be great for me. Ive been to LA to visit family and really hated it. Its not over the top. It might be normal for an area, but that doesnt mean its a good thing. My bf and I have been talking about buying his fathers house in OC (and I love OC and love living in a suburban area after growing up in a big city, and living in big cities all my life and now living in a very residential area). Many people here complain about long commutes, even those that use public transportation to get to and from work. Its also not healthy for ANYONE, even for those who supposedly dont mind it. Biking isnt doable in every city unfortunately I live in Tampa and am 10 miles from work, which, depending on traffic, can take 20-50 minutes. Thats not being special snowflake, thats being realistic about your limitations. My commute is about an hour, but can be an hour and a half if things arent going my way. Yeah, I already made up my mind Im leaving. I live in the DC metro area so long commutes are just the reality of my existence. We live between OC and LA, but he commutes into OC (17 miles). My commute averages 30 minutes to 45 minutes each way on average, although when SoCal was on fire it took me nearly 3 hours. I do have to do one day a week in a super big city, but fortunately I can flex when I get in and leave to avoid the worst of it. I used to live in a northern suburb of chicago and commuted 30 miles to the south side of the city by car (public transit wasnt an option because of the areas it would take me through to get there). Those are now considered commutable distances, even though those are far away. Definitely not normal here! I always walk him before I leave and immediately when I get home. Ive moved around quite a bit within my city with commutes ranging anywhere from 30 seconds (lived in the same building my office was in) to 45 minutes. I could make it shorter if I got the tube (metro) rather than the bus for part of it, but I prefer that as I normally get a seat on the bus and I can read rather than being wedged into someones armpit. You may want to think about this for your next position! I learned that I am not good with long commutes so I have always chosen to live fairly close to where I work (in the same town). by train: 1 hour with no transfers/switches Im not a caffeine user, so I found that eating and drinking was the best way to keep myself awake on long drives. She will never be able to afford to buy, and it looks as if Im now permanently out of King County. Noooo. I tried I really did. why should employers care about my long commute? Traffic is terrible, but using the Waze app can speed up your commute time and help you to avoid accidents, construction, etc. Hate to say it, but 2 hours, while over the average, isnt that outrageous. Feb 7 2021 1 hr 1 min. My commute is 8 miles. There are a lot of people selling stuff, panhandling, or just riding the trains to get off the streets. My coworkers who lived in Manhattan Beach and had to take the 405 or Echo Park and took the 101 the whole way hated their lives. It beats everything but the three years I worked from home. Even here in Denver, where I now live, the population boom has been so dramatic that the traffic is starting to look like L.A. at rush hour. Im definitely one of the lucky ones! My job is 6.2 miles away from home exactly a 10K. I make the most out of my commute today by listening to podcasts, and it doesnt bug me at all, but when I moved here from the Midwest (where I had a 7 minute commute), I absolutely *hated* my commute every day. I used to commute from Pomona to Pasadena, about 30 miles. I used to get on the Expo line at 6am. I did undergrad outside of LA. Originally in Great Recession times, you took a job where the job was and found a way to get there. LA is currently investing in more public transit, now, but it will take years before it comes online. All it says in the brief mention of his is that hes insisted that its normal for the area. Most people I know live within 10-15 miles of their job in my city, but it will still take them an hour to an hour and a half. Someone else commuted down from Alameda (again, along the H8-80, as she called it). For context, Im in the DC area and my commute door to door is roughly an hour on mass transit. I encourage the LW to either move closer to work and/or to find a job with a shorter commute. Plus after 8 or 9 am, the buses dont come as often. 2 hours! :(. I got my commute down to 40 minutes each way, and then realized I would rather pay more for a smaller home than spend a bunch of time commuting from a large house. During surge pricing and bad traffic Uber/Lyft will be expensive and slow. Nobody really understands LA traffic patterns until youve been living here for awhile. Yeah, not only would a drive like that mess with my mental health, I would not be able to take it physically either. But 2 hours? I also have trouble waking up in the mornings and have a pretty bad sense of how long certain things (showering, making coffee) will take me, so Im not cut out for getting up earlier to avoid traffic. It was mostly a reverse commute (opposite way down the highway during rush hour) so once I got to the highway it was speedy. They built a whole light rail system, actually. . I went from 1 hour to 20 minutes, and let me tell you, even though job hunting is a headache, ITS WORTH IT when you dont have to battle traffic every day. Thats just over 33 minutes. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. I came here to suggest the LA Metro! Id love to do that walk in the morning, but maybe not so much in the afternoon! I live in the Chicagoland area, although I dont work in the city. (Not that it needs to be made to sound worse, but there may be a grass-is-greener situation happening where they think about their old life). I got stuck in palo alto on eastshore highway at 5pm once and spent an hour to go 5 mi. Where in OC? I had a commute that was about 40 minutes each-way in no traffic (Atlanta). Reading to North Oxford! And they said that was normal for government workers, because they werent paid enough to live near the city or park in the city. I live 27 miles out of SF and would drive to BART (20-30 minutes) and then ride into the city (30 mins or so). 3-4 hours per day in traffic meant I lost 15-20 hours of non-work time each week or a week each month. Probably? I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, about 28 miles outside of the citymy husband commutes via BART (the subway) everyday and it takes about 45 minutes if its running on time which it never isif he were drive, it would easily be 90 minutes one way with traffic if there were no major accidents/road closures. I mean, Im screaming inside and my commute is regularly an hour and a half! Also agree that driving would make it much less bearable. I did 45 minutes for a while (not traffic, just distance) and that was rough. I actually have longer hours at my current job, but spend *less* time on work+commute. Before I moved to LA, [Official Local Representatives] swore to me that the traffic was exaggerated and every place was accessible by public transport. LA has too many cars but otherwise decent systems. Once or twice a week is fine. Delays are constant, leaves on the track, problematic signals, repair work etc. Add in the higher tax rates, and general COL differences and wed have needed to literally double our household income to get roughly the same quality of life. The only thing about the train is it takes forever to get anywhere so, kind of like your 2-hour commute, but without you having to steer :). Awesome! The only short commute Ive ever had was a 3-month retail job down the hill from my parents house, which was usually ~5-10 minutes. My bf lives in SF, and has been commuting to Mountain View, and it can easily take him 2 hours by car if traffic is bad. I think this is exactly the problem. No wonder. OP, depending on where youre living (sounds like maybe OC? Currently, I commute from my village to Northumbria University, this being an hour commute via local bus services. Oh, I saw that you said it was Long Beach and working in WeHo. Agreed, although theres a huge class element to commutes. But you are right, I definitely ignored the oh man, youre gonna drive THERE? Actual experience trumps book learning every time. He liked the job okay, but he ended up leaving just because he couldnt deal with the commute. I worked swing shift, which helped, but I also had a sports car, which I *loved* to drive! For reference that will easily take you from Tucson to Phoenix. The trade offs were the unique work opportunities in my field and a 4 ten hour day schedule. A 2 hour commute is normal in any big city. 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