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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsVirginia man commutes 220 miles a day
https://screen.yahoo.com/videos-for-you/virginia-man-commutes-220-miles-035058533.htmlI actually knew someone who commuted from New Orleans to Chicago (!) to teach a college class, but he did it once weekly and stayed over in the Windy City.
orleans
(34,060 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)at least he does make some of it on the train and is driven for part of the route as well.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)seriously - daily. Well actually he and a co-worker shared the ride.
We had many that would easily do 100 miles a day.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)edit: I see his is round trip, too. Phew!
rurallib
(62,423 posts)Our company contracted his company to do warehousing. His company offered him a promotion to be the on site operation leader. He wanted the job, but didn't want to move, so he and another worker decided to drive it.
All sorts of weather in the north but pretty much a straight interstate shot. They had to be to work at 6am and worked lots of overtime. I think this went on for 3 or 4 years and the contract ended and we found a new contractor.
mackerel
(4,412 posts)wallet!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)also to DC.
You may have heard of him. He's Vice President of the United States. He made the commute on Amtrak when he was in the Senate.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)in Rhincliff NY. took the train to NYC and did it round trip every day. I loved that train trip.
Hated driving to the train station. It was a great job, a great ride on the train. It was actually cheaper than moving to NYC.
***Plus, I came home top the hudson valley every night.
on edit according to this. I was a about the same or a little more a day.
DFW
(54,405 posts)I'd be thrilled if all I had to travel was 220 miles a day. When I run down to Spain and back for the day, I do over 1000 miles in a day.
dr.strangelove
(4,851 posts)Its mostly train and walking, but its about 100 miles each way. It sucks, I feel for this man.
underpants
(182,829 posts)The mother of a former daycare friend of my daughters commutes to either an IRS or patent office job. She has 15 - 20 people in the van. They take turns driving. She told us that it was one of several such vans
Bombero1956
(3,539 posts)We live in Western Mass so it's about 115 miles round trip. She bought her 2012 Ford Focus in May of 2012 and I bought my Mustang GT/CS at the end of June 2012. To date I have 18,700 miles on the odometer of my car and she has 52,500 on hers. My miles would even less if it weren't for 2 trips to Toronto, 1 trip to Baltimore and 1 trip to Richmond, VA. totaling 3,600 miles. This super commuter Yun Namkung, MD, who lives in Queens, N.Y., but works at Leflore Hospital, a 248-bed regional medical center in Greenwood, Miss. This guy lives on a farm in Augusta Maine and works in Boston a total of 170 miles each way for a total of 9 hours a day (for an 8-hour job). He leaves home at 4:15 AM and returns at 10:15 PM.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)it was -45 degrees. He drove a Toyota truck. He never had a problem with it. Sold me.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)I only did it for a year and I kind of enjoyed it, actually.
in the morning on the way in and De-stress time on the way home in the evening.
But, No. Not every day for the rest of my career.
Just no.