How much is your commute?

NicNicP

£0 for me too. It's about a 15-20 minute walk away or 5 minutes in the car if the weather is really bad or I have somewhere to go on the way home.

fairy_lights

£12.50 for a weekly bus ticket. I live in the !!!! end of nowhere so it's much cheaper here than near London.

Kreacher

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Question is sadly a bit pointless because it depends where you work and where you live obviously! For example, I live in zone 1, work in zone 2 and have free travel so it costs me nothing. Where do you work?

I work in zone 3, currently commute from zone 6 (via clapham junction) so a zone 2-6 travel-card.

Moving out to Stevenage wouldn't actually add much to the journey time as a direct train from stevenage to king's cross is only 27 mins, plus 25 mins on the northern line. But the cost is crazy! An annual travel card for Stevenage to london Zones 1-6 is almost £5k!

dc197

Until recently - £0 - cycle
Now £3/4 per day - drive within town
Wife: £6000/year on train and underground

Kreacher

csgohan4 wrote: »

What no Cake??? Stingy mug, you already don't pay for a commute already


Back to the OP, 550 for a season ticket a month for train, not including parking at train station and petrol to the station

That's about what I'd be looking at (internet says £463 a month). It just seems like so much money!! But house-wise we would get so much more for our money

JP08

This is going to make you wince - it certainly makes me grimace ...

The cost of our joint commute (Huntingdon / St Neots area) is :

My Annual Season Ticket : £1200, Wife's Annual Season Ticket : £4800, Wife's Oyster card : £720, Car Park Annual Ticket : £1290, Car Fuel (est) : £200.
Total for the two of us : £8200 or an average of £340 each per month. It could be worse - I get quarter fare and free London travel ...

Commute Time (door to desk) : 1h 40mins each way.

Is it worth it ?

Quite hard to say - what does a three bed semi in a nice leafy non estate quiet road go for ?
Here - about £300k. In Stevenage, Rightmove suggests round the £400k. That's over £5k a year extra on the mortgage (25yrs, 3%). North London ? £800k? £1m ? Thats a good £40k extra on the mortgage.

How do you value your time ? Stevenage - you still have 1hr 20mins commute. N London - probably best part of an hour.
Value that 20 mins extra each way at the average of our take home salaries and it comes out at about £2,500 for the two of us per year.

So, costs £2500 more a year for Stevenage, commute is £1750 cheaper. A net gain of £750. Not much in it.
N London £40k more, commute is £5k in time cheaper, and probably about £5k in fares / car park too. So £30k a year out of pocket.

But then you have to figure in house price gains ... and that is anybodies guess.

Kreacher

dc197 wrote: »

Until recently - £0 - cycle
Now £3/4 per day - drive within town
Wife: £6000/year on train and underground

I'd be looking at £5000 per year, but I'm just not sure if I can justify it. My boyfriend suggested getting a scooter, but I don't fancy that.

Cloudydaze

£0 for me too.
I live in Zone 3 and work in Zone 1.
I cycle which is also 5-10 mins quicker than the tube.

JP08

Kreacher wrote: »

An annual travel card for Stevenage to london Zones 1-6 is almost £5k!

If your destination is in zone one and you only travel to and from the office it is probably cheaper to get the season ticket without the zones 1-6, and get an Oyster. Works out at £3548 + £750 ish or £4300. That £700 isn't to be sneezed at !

Kreacher

JP08 wrote: »

This is going to make you wince - it certainly makes me grimace ...

The cost of our joint commute (Huntingdon / St Neots area) is :

My Annual Season Ticket : £1200, Wife's Annual Season Ticket : £4800, Wife's Oyster card : £720, Car Park Annual Ticket : £1290, Car Fuel (est) : £200.
Total for the two of us : £8200 or an average of £340 each per month. It could be worse - I get quarter fare and free London travel ...

Commute Time (door to desk) : 1h 40mins each way.

Is it worth it ?

Quite hard to say - what does a three bed semi in a nice leafy non estate quiet road go for ?
Here - about £300k. In Stevenage, Rightmove suggests round the £400k. That's over £5k a year extra on the mortgage (25yrs, 3%). North London ? £800k? £1m ? Thats a good £40k extra on the mortgage.

How do you value your time ? Stevenage - you still have 1hr 20mins commute. N London - probably best part of an hour.
Value that 20 mins extra each way at the average of our take home salaries and it comes out at about £2,500 for the two of us per year.

So, costs £2500 more a year for Stevenage, commute is £1750 cheaper. A net gain of £750. Not much in it.
N London £40k more, commute is £5k in time cheaper, and probably about £5k in fares / car park too. So £30k a year out of pocket.

But then you have to figure in house price gains ... and that is anybodies guess.

Timewise - it doesn't bother me. I'm happy to travel for 20 - 40 mins longer for a house over a flat. It's just the price that I'm really unsure about. I guess I just didn't think it would be so expensive! I though what I'm paying now was high!