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How long does your commute to/from work take?

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  • scooby088
    scooby088 Posts: 3,385 Forumite
    4 mins by car or 20 mins if I walk, I work in the town I live in
  • pimento
    pimento Posts: 6,243 Forumite
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    Ninety minutes each way. This will increase by 20 mins each way in December when our office moves.
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  • agrinnall
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    DKLS, you must have a bigger place than me, mine is 5 seconds (although the bedroom door is immediately opposite the lounge where I work). If I have to go into the office, it's about 90 minutes each way.
  • googler
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    5-30 seconds depending on which room I leave from to go to the study.
  • Another thing to consider is that you may not always work where you are currently working now. The department I work in will be moving for the third time in 5 years due to it getting bigger and needing more space. Where it was before was more convenient to where I live. I don't rule out the possibility of another office move in the future.

    On a good day it's 30mins door to door for me. Where my office was before it was 10 mins, where it'll move soon will add another 5 mins to my journey.
  • keyser666
    keyser666 Posts: 2,140 Forumite
    two hrs in and 2hrs 15mins home, that includes, one bus, one east coast train, one tube and a 5 minute walk.
  • Deep_In_Debt
    Deep_In_Debt Posts: 8,579 Forumite
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    20 minute walk from home to station, 1hr on train (if trains running to time and not delayed etc), 15 min walk from station to office and the same coming home.
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  • Previously it's been up to 4 hours (I commuted from London to Dublin, but only flying in/out on Mondays and Thurs). When working in London it was a 60-90 minute journey.

    Now? takes about 10 seconds to go up the stairs at home
  • Wow, I really don't know how some of you manage these commutes!
  • DKLS
    DKLS Posts: 13,461 Forumite
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    agrinnall wrote: »
    DKLS, you must have a bigger place than me, mine is 5 seconds (although the bedroom door is immediately opposite the lounge where I work). If I have to go into the office, it's about 90 minutes each way.

    Not that big, but I was dawdling this morning as first task was to chair a 4hr technical tele conference yay! which thankfully i managed to steer to an early finish.

    I am so grateful I have had some hateful commutes in the past.
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