Tentenths

Jeez, wish I could walk that fast!



Lovely part of the world BTW

T4molie

To put it into perspective, my missus used to do the commute into London as well. She got fedup with it so got a job locally - by locally I mean she has a 10 min walk to work

However she now gets paid literally half of what she was on in London for doing the same job

hail-hail

I am currently a Consultant, so traveling is very much part of my life. I generally travel by car if it takes 1.5 hrs or less, any more than that an I will stay in a Hotel.
However I have found most clients are flexible and will agree non standard working hours, to allow me to miss traffic i.e. start at 07:00, work till 15:30. This misses out most of the rush hour.

Is this something you could agree with your new employer?

andypugh2000

I commute woking to hampton middlesex, 16 miles each way, 25-30 mins each way too, M25 can be a crawl but only for one juntion then its a very hard long sweeping corner entering the M3 testing the toyos to the limit, then its a quick press on the boost controller and star trek time to sunbury cross.

andy

Freak

When i moved out of london i did commute 4 days a week to central london from gloucester.
Train at 8:00 arrived at paddington just after 10, quick tube ride and i was there...
was bearable, but was a ball ache- even tho i could sleep most of the way. delays, crowded, leaves on the line, the odd crash at paddington etc etc.

Now i sometimes have a 2 or 3 hour drive home to and from work....
but coming home its at 3 or 4am.... so not much traffic
Again, not much work locally, and freelance=work where the money is, and all the expenses are tax deductable.

Wouldnt fancy sitting in traffic for 2/3/4 hours every day though- i did it for a month to london every day when the trains went **** up- fecking nightmare.

Not because of the distance- it was the traffic and hassle that made it a nightmare. If you go somewhere thats easy to get to its not a problem.

T4molie

Andy......

I used to live in Isleworth and travel to Woking for work I used to love the long sweeping corner getting on / getting off the M3

Cheers

Andy

Puff The Magic Wagon!

iTrader: (2)

Living in Suffolk nr Bury St Edmunds.

It is Dr-Dr 75 miles.

In the morning it takes approximately 90 mins & on the way home approximately 70 mins.


I try and leave about 08:15 (or drop sprog @ school then) and get in by 09:45. I leave 19:00 or later. The traffic is easier that much later both ways & by that I mean less congested or tedius. I have parking too.

I would have to drive 30 mins to a station, park up & 70 mins in a train before a 10min walk to do it by public stuff but its a stop/start service & would cost a lot & subject to the vagaries og WAGN

The benefit is a nice quiet house in the middle of nowhere

JohnS

iTrader: (1)

I can't believe the times/distances that some people commute. Would drive me mad!

I recently moved house, and am faced with a 14 mile commute every day. 90% is on country back roads, and 10% in 30mph limits. Generally it takes about 17 - 20 minutes, but if you get stuck on a long queue to get out at a busy juntion, then it can take as long as 25 minutes.

Compared to the sub 10 minute commute I had before (rush hour), 5 minutes on a Sunday morning I find the longer commute quite frustrating, but the driving is quite fun.

When I used to live/work in the London area, I used to drive down the A3 from Wimbledon to Cobham every day, 15 miles and about 20 minutes which was bearable, but whenever there was an accident, the journey home could take 90 minutes+, which was incredibly frustrating. I did a year of the bus/tube thing as well, and it was about 45 - 60 minutes on average, but again sometimes on the way home (Northern Line), it could take up to two hours - stuck on a hot sweaty, dirty tube

Moved to Aberdeen in '91, and haven't looked back since. The improvement in quality of life was amazing, as there was never any need to worry about catching the last train home in the evening, getting up at 6am to have a shower so you had time for breakfast before you left the house at 7:30am, and then didn't get home again in the evening until 7pm or later. I remember when I first moved here, I could leave work after 5:30pm, and still be home in time to catch the 6pm news, which I hadn't seen in all the years I was in and around the London area. In the summer, there was even time to do a full day's work, get home, have tea and still fit in a full round of golf before it gets dark

Life's too short to waste a large percentage of it sitting in traffic/trains etc.

BrettC

Wow, a massive response!

Thanks guys.

_James_

I commute a 90 mile round trip each day, and never see a traffic jam or a speed camera, and also get to take in some lovely flowing A roads. I also get to cross the Horseshoe Pass in North Wales every day.

The A5 is a bit dodgy though and often calls for a bit of stunt driving to overtake trucks and tractors or avoid eejits without lights on, on the wrong side of the road, or those that pull out of junctions at a snails pace when everyone else is bearing down on them at 60 mph.... and breathe.

Would rather a five minute commute, more money, and shorter hours but then, don't we all.

scoob_babe

bought a clio diesel to take the mileage and petrol costs off the scoob. At the time, I was commuting around 100 mile round trip a day.
Back working where I live and use the car so drop him off off at the station before going to work. Yes, I can walk it (and have done) however it means both of us getting up a minimum 30 mins earlier to walk (not nice in dark winter months) and I don't have the freedom to sod off at lunch time!