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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 12:44 PM
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Poll question: How far is your one-way commute to work each day?
My one-way commute is soon to be 45 miles. Luckily, I drive a Honda Civic and I will be reimbursed for the expense.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 12:46 PM
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1. About 20 feet.
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:49 PM
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20. Me, too -- work at home.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 02:23 PM
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27. Yep... As BTBM says below...
Telecommuting rocks! :bounce:
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 12:50 PM
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2. My commute is measured in hours, not miles.
I'm in NYC. I only commute about 10 miles, but it takes 2 hours and 10 minutes each way, on average.
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Ravenseye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:20 PM
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13. Yikes
You could almost walk that faster.
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:32 PM
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18. 5 miles of that is Harbor.
It would be a long, long walk. :P

My Mom lives in upstate NY and complains horribly about the traffic if her commute is longer than 15 minutes. That kills me.
:rofl:
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Ravenseye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:48 PM
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19. Well I work from home now
But I know the city commute well. One place I had to walk and take a bus for 15 minutes to reach a train that took 45 minutes then a second train for 10 minutes, capped off by a 15 minute walk...With no traffic at like 3am you could drive it in about 10 minutes...

Meanwhile my mother in law would bitch when there were more than 2 cars ahead of her at a stoplight as 'traffic'...
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 02:20 PM
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24. Am I allowed to envy you?
:)
I'd love to work from home. But that's not going to happen.
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Ravenseye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 02:22 PM
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25. Envy Away
It's just so much better in so many ways. There are things I miss about that commute and working in an office, but I wouldn't go back.

No daily train ride to drink my coffee and read the paper.
No 'work buddies' to go grab lunch with.

on the plus side I can wear my pj's all day or take a shower at 2pm if I feel like it, not to mention getting to spend a hell of a lot more time with my daughter than I would if I were commuting.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 12:52 PM
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3. Two flights of stairs up to the office on the third floor.
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 12:53 PM
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4. less than a mile
roughly eight blocks. 8 minutes on the bike, 20 on foot.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 12:54 PM
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5. also about 20 feet.
I'm trying to atone for all the years of 40 miles each way.

Unfortunately, the pay is also proportional at the moment!
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 12:54 PM
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6. 20-30 miles...
I can't afford to live anywhere near my work :shrug:
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 12:56 PM
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7. 8 miles
But only until May 31.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 12:59 PM
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8. It's 7.6 miles now, will be 12.1 miles starting mid-April, and will be 5.8
miles starting in mid-August.

I move in April, and quit my job and go back to school in August.
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BigMcLargehuge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:00 PM
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9. ten paces
11 with a bathroom stop

Telecommuting RULES!!!!!
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:01 PM
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10. It's a good 10 minute drive from my house
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ohiosmith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:05 PM
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11. 2.5 mi.
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:07 PM
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12. 33 miles each way
I hate it. It's probably the thing I dislike the most about my job. x(
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:22 PM
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14. Six kilometers
By bike. Though coming home, plowing icy headwinds, it sometimes feels like 6000.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:26 PM
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15. I used to ride 70 miles from East Texas to the Ship Channel...
I met myself coming and going sometimes.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:27 PM
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16. about a mile
10 minutes by car, about 20 by bus. All of it by choice. :)
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:32 PM
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17. Twenty six miles one way
And this is what I do it with, at least when the temperature is above freezing.


A Bajaj motor scooter. Gets 100 mpg, travels at 55-60 mph. And I love riding the thing, makes my commute into a fun experience.

Really couldn't stand living in an urban area anymore, so moved out to the country two years ago. I've got twenty acres, and am working hard to make it a working small farm. Hopefully I'll be doing well enough in a few years to give up the day job and work the farm full time.
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:52 PM
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21. Takes 15 minutes in the morning 25 in the evening
Because more traffic lights are on. I live in the bigger city in my area but work in the smaller one next door so I'm always against traffic. I like it.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:55 PM
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22. Other:
25 miles Monday - Friday to Job #1. Then 36 miles Monday - Friday from Job #1 to Job #2. Then 65 miles every Saturday to Job #3 part 1, and 110 miles every Sunday to Job #3 part 2.

But that's only the 'to' part. There's also a certain amount of 'from.'
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 01:58 PM
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23. Weekday job - 13 steps to the office : Weekend job - as much as 700 miles
Weekday - telecommuting IT geek
Weekends - musician

mikey_the_rat
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 02:23 PM
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Edited on Thu Mar-23-06 02:23 PM by ChoralScholar
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ChoralScholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 02:23 PM
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26. seven blocks
But I've made those drives... they're no fun.
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 02:37 PM
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28. about 4 1/2 feet.
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