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Just a query, am interested in what people think is an acceptable daily commute, i am going for a second interview next week at a job i really want, but its 50 miles away in manchester, the distance is only 50 miles,, but its the M62 and who knows how long that can be some mornings
 
30 miles each way.
45 minutes with traffic each way on a decent run.
90 minutes at least once a week though.
Bout half motorway half a roads.
 
Good luck with the job.

I travel about 35 miles to work, takes about 45-50 minutes generally. On the other hand, my wife travels 21 miles to Salford using the M62 and M602 and her journey is about 50 minutes unless someone gets a little close to the scenery and then it can be anything. Her journey home seems to take longer on most days.
 
I work less than a mile from my house. I find that perfectly acceptible (y)

I dont think 50 miles is too far if its a job you really want to do.
 
Nikon_Nick said:
I dont think 50 miles is too far if its a job you really want to do.
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I would find it a bit tedious but many people travel further (crazy fools!).

If you work five days a week, have 25 days holiday and five bank holidays, that's 230 working days or 23,000 miles wear and tear on your car per year. I would probabaly find a bus/train option instead.


Steve.
 
Thanks Guys am already travelling over to Bolton on a regular basis so just a bit further, it will just be getting down past the eccles interchange which will be the problem,,, never had a problem coming back over and can do it in less than an hr
 
I doubt there is such a thing as an 'acceptable' commute, it all comes down to personal circumstances. How much do you want the job, how much do you like where you currently live, how much will that commute time impeded on your personal life and can you make all the answers to those fit together in a way that is acceptable to you. There are mornings here in London when it will easily take as long to do the 8 miles to our garage as it will take you to do those 50 miles. In reality lizzy only you can really decide whether it will work for you. I know a lot of people that regularly commute between 50 and 100 miles each way daily to work in London without having to live anywhere near it. Could I do it? Not a chance, just not my thing.
 
Steve Smith said:
I would find it a bit tedious but many people travel further (crazy fools!).

If you work five days a week, have 25 days holiday and five bank holidays, that's 230 working days or 23,000 miles wear and tear on your car per year. I would probabaly find a bus/train option instead.


Steve.
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Good money plus car allowance, means its viable
 
It's not distance so much as time. I'd say 45-50min each way is acceptable, but much over an hour regularly (if you're driving) isn't. I used to work 2 days a week 75 miles/80-90min from home, and after 2 years I'd really had enough.
 
viv1969 said:
30 miles each way.
45 minutes with traffic each way on a decent run.
90 minutes at least once a week though.
Bout half motorway half a roads.
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mines the same as that, luckily for me I get the use of a works van otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford it
 
100 mile round trip for me on minor roads, A roads, dual carriageway and city. Sometime have to do it for "office" hours and it's about 80 mins each way. More typically I do it off-peak and it's about an hour.

Saving grace is that I only do it once or twice per week (not that I'm semi-retired or anything, just that I go away with the job).

If the cost of moving house wasn't so high (notwithstanding emotional and other attachments to any particular place), I reckon people wouldn't commute so far. 10-20k on stamp duty, estate agents fees, legal fees, removals etc will buy a lot of fuel...
 
i'm working on around 90 minutes at the time i'll be travelling but it only seems to be going to Manchester thats the problem, i can leave Kearsley at 5 at the moment and be back in 45 minutes , and the new job is only 7 miles further on
 
I had a job earlier this year where I had to travel about 40 miles each way. It would often take me an hour and a half to get to work as parking the car and a ten minute walk to work added to the total time. After about three months I knew I couldn't put up with it and found another job.

On the other hand I've always found half an hour's drive quite a good distance to be from work allowing me a bit if a 'debrief' on the way home!
 
thanks everyone its interesting to see what you all do,, i would imagine that those commuting into london, regularly do a 2 hr commute each way ?
 
My regular daily commute is 20 / 30mins by car, my other regular commutes mostly start a 9am and i end up in an office late afternoon but that involves taxis, planes and trains.
 
sx_turbo said:
mines the same as that, luckily for me I get the use of a works van otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford it
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My company pay my fuel.
I give them the receipt, they give me the cash. :)
 
My very first job, I lived in Wilmslow (near the company office) and had to work on client site in Lytham. That's about 45 miles each way.

There wasn't a lot of traffic so even with the small roads it was still only about an hour each way but it ground me down after a year. Car needed servicing every couple of months :(

Then I moved to London and found out that an hour commute is most people's idea of heaven.
 
about 15 miles/ 25 mins
 
I live on the Isle of Wight. There are a lot of people here who travel to the mainland (or England as we call it) for work every day.

They catch a boat between 5:00 and 6:00 each morning and seem to get back at about 7:00 each evening leaving just enough time to eat, get some sleep then get up tired the next morning to do it again.

No thanks!! (I would rather be unemployed).


Steve
 
Steve Smith said:
I live on the Isle of Wight. There are a lot of people here who travel to the mainland (or England as we call it) for work every day.

They catch a boat between 5:00 and 6:00 each morning and seem to get back at about 7:00 each evening leaving just enough time to eat, get some sleep then get up tired the next morning to do it again.

No thanks!! (I would rather be unemployed).


Steve
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I used to work with one of those people, about 30 years ago, in Beckenham, Kent. Absolutely no idea how she kept it up, or even how it made economic sense.
 
lizzy23 said:
thanks everyone its interesting to see what you all do,, i would imagine that those commuting into london, regularly do a 2 hr commute each way ?
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My better half does the daily commute into London and has done so for 25 years. I would ask how she finds it but I would need groinal protection!

Me, I do just over 20 miles each way every day taking 45 minutes and that's more than enough.
 
fabs said:
My better half does the daily commute into London and has done so for 25 years. I would ask how she finds it but I would need groinal protection!

Me, I do just over 20 miles each way every day taking 45 minutes and that's more than enough.
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:LOL: :LOL:
 
fabs said:
My better half does the daily commute into London and has done so for 25 years. I would ask how she finds it but I would need groinal protection!

Me, I do just over 20 miles each way every day taking 45 minutes and that's more than enough.
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ouch,, just shows what some people will put up with for the right job
 
In my case, ten seconds, maybe seven seconds if I am in a rush. Well, I am a home carer looking after an elderly mother. :D

Back in my tomato greenhouse working days where the workplace was located in the middle of the Kent countryside, it involved a 22 miles round trip every day. However, due to the rubbish farmer's wages which was the barest minimum wages, I could only afford second hand bangers (and then then, I got them on credit) and thus it ended up costing me more to run the car to get me to work than what I was earning in order to keep the car! (I haven't driven in fours years now).
 
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My commute is 15 miles but takes me 45 mins due to traffic. I'm hoping to move closer which should halve it. I have had friends who do three hours each way. :eek:
 
I can do between 100 and 180 miles each way taking between 2 & 4 hours.
Work pays for the car and fuel so not too much of a burden except for the long tedious journeys.
50 miles could take 50 minutes but it could take double that if traffics bad.
If the job pays well or is specialised then you can expect to travel, your employer can expect to pay a price though.
 
18 miles per journey, 30 mins in, 40-45 homeward.
Enjoy the job though
 
8 miles to work in about 10 minutes. Just under 7.5 miles to get back home again and takes just under 10 minutes.
 
After 10yrs of 1hr+ commutes, I now have a 4 minute drive to the railway station, a 4 minute train journey and a finally 3 or 4 minute walk. The trains run 4 or 5 times an hour, and the car drive in bad traffic only takes about a minute longer! When the weather gets better, I will be back on my bike - 90%of the ride to work is on a cycle path next to the river taff so nice and quiet journey.

Absolute bliss!!
 
Haven't done more than a 20 minute commute for over 5 years now, much prefer it. I did spend many years as a consultant racking up crazy miles but glad I don't bother with it anymore, there are better things to do with your life.
 
4 ish miles doing days and afters so traffic is mostly light so between 8 min and 15 min. Although there is about 16 sets of lights to negotiate.
 
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