How far do you travel to work?

Spendless

4-5 miles but it still takes me 30 minutes to drive there, due to it's location just outside the town centre which isn't on 'my' side of time and the start and finish times.

Husband has various times during the week depending on whether he's working from home, 0 comute, his local office 45 min drive away or at his HO 100 miles away that involves an over night stay.

dawyldthing

1 mile each way which I walk as I often beat the bus

boliston

About 2 miles each way - takes anything between 9 and 13 minutes each way depending mainly on wind direction.

bugslet

Since 1991, 30 miles. I leave at 5.45 in the morning, it's relatively quiet then.:). Coming back is not too bad usually, about 45 minutes.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

The absurdity of course is that we no doubt have plenty of situations where someone is travelling 2 hours to do a job, and someone living 5 minutes away from that job is travelling another 2 hours to do a virtually identical job 5 minutes away from the first person.

chocdonuty

Not sure how far it is but only takes about 9 minutes on foot, it's great Might count my steps next time.
Don't think I could be bothered with all the scraping of ice in winter and sweltering in the heat of summer, never mind the cost of keeping a car!
I like to get home, quick and easy!

FredG

20 mins walk each way. Love it.

Moneyshow15

Just applied for a job on the route to where I used to study, that would be a tube linking to a train, not so bothered about weeknights where you could get into a routine but for the mornings any single problem with the journey would probably turn it into a two hour slog, more if we were turfed off the train and onto buses.

Two hours was the max for London work when having to go through the centre and back out again but those branching lines like the Jubilee and Metropolitan have since been upgraded, it might be quicker now.

2gorgeousgirls

I travelled 55 miles each way in a previous job, rush hour traffic and often at a stand still. Also used to have the odd bomb scare (NI) which affected travel time. I remember once leaving home at 6.30 am and getting into work at 11.20 am! Sitting gridlocked on the motorway, dying for a loo is no fun.

Anyway got a transfer closer to home a few years back and now I travel half a mile each way. Not a wonderful job compared previous one which I loved but the proximity to home was just too good an opportunity to pass up.

PlymouthMaid

About a mile and a half. Hate, hate. hate commuting.