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SarEl wrote: »

If you live in one of the rural villages of East Leeds that is true - it is also a choice. If you choose to live in a somewhat isolated area, and then to not drive or have some form of transport of your own then the limitations on you are things that you have chosen. It still does not make a distance of 25 miles an unreasonable distance to travel - it simply means that you must make more effort of your own to address the shortcomings of rural transport. If the OP were to lose their job or give it up, then the JobCentre would expect them to be available for work in a much wider radius that 25 miles.

Oh, absolutely! I love living where I do but it definitely has its limitations - on my one day a week that I have to be in early, I get my husband to drop me off for a train as it would be a nightmare on the bus (I work in central Leeds so cannot drive to work but I don't mind this as my employer pays for my Metro Card). I've got nice views over the fields but a rubbish bus service. If my employer decided to relocate us to Halifax (unlikely) I wouldn't be happy but the best way around it would be a lift to the station for a train straight through to Halifax.

Spendless

OP- Have you spoke to your employers about this? Take in the bus and train timetables and request to see them, show them the 1st bus you can catch, what train/bus it ties up with and whether it will get you to work in time. Some employers will allow staff to be there a bit later. This happened where I was working last, they gave me a new line manager and changed her office to where I was based. She lived in the sticks with no buses till late morning and had a daughter at 6th form, whereas her old office allowed her to drop her dd off and continue to work, changing her office meant her work-place was in the opposite direction of her daughter's school. They allowed her to come in late and would have continued to do so until either I was trained up and she could go back to her old office or her DD sat her A-levels and finished school whichever came first.

aliasojo wrote: »

Do all the people who undertake long commutes earn particularly good wages?

In our case yes. We live in a deprived town in the North of England, that lacks jobs or has poorly paid ones. Mr S in his late 20s made the decision to move away work for HO and got a salary to match. He moved back for personal reasons when he was at a point where he could be located anywhere, but he still needs to go to HO a few times a week, (2 on average, this week 3). That's a 2 hour car journey commute each way and I'd be lying if I didn't say it has a detrimental effect on family life- but the above average income it brings gives a positive effect on it.

Oldernotwiser

aliasojo wrote: »

Do all the people who undertake long commutes earn particularly good wages?

Probably not but I bet they've rarely been unemployed!

Gordon_Hose

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Probably not but I bet they've rarely been unemployed!

Never been unemployed

claire16c

Also its not just people who live IN London, its the thousands of people who live outside London, but travel into or through London, who have long commutes to work. Or people coming from the South West to the East. Or from Kent going further North. I used to sit opposite a lady who used to come in from nr Leceister every day.

I used to commute from Reading to London, and there were tons of people who got on the train at Bristol and got off at either Reading or London. Door to door, Im sure many of those people had 2 hour plus journeys, because not everyone lives 1 min away from a train station, or has an office 1 min walk at the other end. Most of them probably have to drive to the station, and then get a bus or walk at the other end, or even a connecting train to a smaller town.

Someone in my Dads office, does a commute from somewhere nr Devon to Reading. I used to work with suppliers who regularly travelled from their homes near birmingham to London or south east offices, not necessarily every day but maybe 2-3 days. So yes, there are MANY people!

Also, I have to say, I hate using public transport to get to work, so if I was the OP I would be doing everything i could to drive. My preferred jobs would always be one that I can drive to.