Commuter Travel

chewmylegoff

45 minutes for me, or about 1 hour if i have to travel in rush hour. your commute needs to be looked at in terms of your working hours - if i was 9-5 then i wouldn't mind travelling for 90 minutes in each direction, but i work about 8-8 so i don't really want anything more than 45 mins on top of that (which it is, reliably, at those times of day).

Guitar

[FONT=&quot]Currently, either a 50 minute walk or 25 minute bike ride (Public transport is too expensive and I'd still have to walk half the way) through streets that become more chav infested every year.

I've been thinking about commuting a lot recently since I was planning to buy my first house. In the area I live the properties are expensive and crap. I just didn't want to buy here but at the same time need a reasonable commute.

Even though I can't afford a car either, I started looking in a nearby towns further away and thought I'd found the perfect solution. The houses were beautiful, near affordable and had actual gardens! They were also near the country side. I dreamed of getting up each morning, having breakfast in my countryside garden. Then a quick 20 minute cycle down to the train station through beautiful farmland, along traditional country lanes. I'd park up my bike at the train station.

Then it'd be just a quick 10 minute train journey up to work through more scenic views, maybe even enough time to get through a paperback each month.

It all seemed so perfect.......until I saw how much a yearly train ticket would cost.[/FONT]

Debt_Free_Chick

Mine is roughly two hours door to door - from East Sussex (Battle) to the City. 20 mins by car to the station, 1hr 15m on the train and then a walk from London Bridge to Bishopsgate.

My job does not exist outside the City. I'd be lucky to get any job that paid a quarter of what I earn in the City, so it's just not an option for me. I also love what I do.

I chose to "suffer" the commute to be able to live down here, previously living in London. The commute from the sticks is far more gentle than those around London. I travel roughly in the same carriage with the same people every day, most of whom I "know" locally anyway. There are very many that commute from Hastings, Battle and other stations south of Tunbridge Wells. Indeed, there are eight carriages full by the time the train reaches TW, when another four are bolted on.

I tackle the crossword and killer sudoku on the train - something I don't do at any other time. I've made my commute bearable as I don't want to live anywhere else, so I aim to "enjoy it" and not get wound up by it.

Annual season ticket is £3,800 though - without tube (which I don't need).

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Why don't you cycle? It's only 6 miles. My first job was 6 miles from home and it was perfectly normal for everybody to cycle those distances.

6 miles either way seems pretty normal to me, too. You don't have to pelt along to start with, and it's usually faster than buses etc

westv

Before I got made redundant at the beginning of the year my commute was 1h 45m door to door (50 or so minutes via East Coast Main Line), about 90 miles and a season ticket cost £6,828 per annum.

Cleaver

westv wrote: »

Before I got made redundant at the beginning of the year my commute was 1h 45m door to door (50 or so minutes via East Coast Main Line), about 90 miles and a season ticket cost £6,828 per annum.

Wowzers. Is it any wonder why we all debate whether certain houses or mortgages are affordable until someone passes out?

I don't generally pay anything to get to and from work and neither does my wife. The monthly cost of your season ticket would pay the full monthly amount of our mortgage on our 3-bed semi (which still has twenty years to go). That's pretty crazy.

wageslave

Cleaver wrote: »

Wowzers. Is it any wonder why we all debate whether certain houses or mortgages are affordable until someone passes out?

I don't generally pay anything to get to and from work and neither does my wife. The monthly cost of your season ticket would pay the full monthly amount of our mortgage on our 3-bed semi (which still has twenty years to go). That's pretty crazy.

Nothing to add to the topic, my idea of a commute is anything that takes me more than 10 minutes.

WB CLEAVER:kisses2:

wymondham

I know this completely off topic, but as I'm the OP I reserve the right! ......... why do most people with Gym membership drive to the Gym ? ;-)