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how many miles do you drive to work

TBeckett100
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buying a house 52 miles from work, currently i am 30 miles. people think i am mad but i have a well paid job and the house i want is 52 miles away (i am very picky on neighbourhoods and kids in the area.
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I'm 7 miles from work.
I spent two years travelling 70 miles each way - at my own expense - never again!
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6 miles, life is too short to spend it all in car queue!0
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22 miles
Thats 22 miles too far!0 -
3 miles - I can even pop back to take the washing in at lunchtime if it's raining ...Debt at highest: £6,290.72 (14.2.1999)
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about 45 miles each way, is actually really easy when there is no trafic 50 mins but its not uncommon for it to take 2+ hours to get to work at the moment.
frankly i am seriously thinking moving closer as not only is the £90 a week in petrol (1) a bit of a pain but spending over 15 hours a week commuting.
its distance is really irrelavant, its the time it will take as 52 miles on empty roads is a LOT less of an issue than 10 miles os traffic jams and a consistant 1 hour each way drive aint that bad.
(1) an old 7 series aint frugal but i wouldnt even consider doing the commute in a sensible little car0 -
26.2 miles from door to door. Exactly a marathon!
I have a 1.4 Civic, wish I had a 7 series!!!"I'm not from around here, I have my own customs"
For confirmation: No, I'm not a 40 year old woman, I'm a 26 year old bloke!0 -
26.2 miles from door to door. Exactly a marathon!
I have a 1.4 Civic, wish I had a 7 series!!!
old 7's aint that expensive to buy and if like me you are going to put large millage and dont want eat the depereciation but 23 mpg on the motorway aint pretty and the bills can be big if you dont watch out.
that said its pretty nice to sit in a car with the engine barely reving over 2000 rpm at over 100 allegidly officer.0 -
It's 175 miles from my house to my office. Luckily I only have to drive 170 of those twice a week.:A MSE's turbo-charged CurlyWurlyGirly:A
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I work from home but I do go to see customers, it depends who and where I have to go to but I average 500 miles a week.0
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TBeckett100 wrote: »buying a house 52 miles from work, currently i am 30 miles. people think i am mad but i have a well paid job and the house i want is 52 miles away (i am very picky on neighbourhoods and kids in the area.
It was the only job around at the time so I had to take it. But petrol costs were quite crippling - and it was killing the car with that mileage. 24,000 miles a year meant I'd need a new car every 4 years. And servicing/repairs on that high mileage was quite a bit.
Luckily the decision was made for me when I was made redundant.
But I was lucky that in the year I did it I didn't break down because I'd have never managed to get there/home by public transport and could have been without the car for a week.
With petrol now at £1.05/litre, it can add up to a substantial amount of take home pay. Factor in the car running/replacement costs and sometimes it's just not worth it.
The journey was rural too. I'd be leaving home at 7am and getting back at 7pm. Long, lonely, expensive journey. Hated the boss too, which didn't help.
Glad that's over.
Apart from that, I've worked 100 miles and 200 miles from home (drove up Mondays, back Fridays) staying in cheap B&B in the week. Usual mileages for me have been 10-25 miles.
Best ever job was 1 mile away. Could leave late, get home early, pop home at lunchtime if I needed anything. Could walk if the car broke down. No worries if there's a fuel shortage.
Currently working from home, so 0 miles. I think the petrol in my car's been in there since January and I still have half a tank.0
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