Comments on: How Long Is Your Commute?

By: Christine

Christine — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:14:59 +0000

my commute to- to my high school (bronx science)
is an hour and 20 minutes from manhattan to the northwest bronx! but my friends in queens travel over two hours on three different trains!

By: Taro

Taro — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:48:27 +0000

Hi all, I’m japanese and I’m living in japan. Sorry I’m not English well. My commuter time is about each 3 hours between my home town’s train station and working company’s bus station. thus I’m always using about 6 hours rounds trip everyday.
my home town is Odawara-city, Kanagawa-pref. and my company town is
Kodaira-city, at Tokyo. First of all, I always ride on a train of Odakyu-line from Odawara station(5:38am). and I transfer to Nanbu-line at Noborito station at Kawasaki-city(7:16am). next, I transfer to Musashino-line at Fuchu-honmachi station(7:39am). Finally, I ride on a bus between Shin-kodaira station(7:50am) and near the company’s bus station(8:30am). Actually, I’m really hard both physical and mental. ‘Cause very tired everyday. Recently, I get a reservation business hotel near the compnay every now and then. But I’d like to go back home after work.
Is there the american person who is long commuter time rather then me?

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:52:16 +0000

I do ~85 each way (170mi round trip) from the east bay to Cupertino, where I work at Apple. I leave at 4:30am get there by 5:45am. work until 2:30 or so and get back home by 4:15pm. Its not bad and the pay is good. My car gets a beating ( but hey its an excuse to get a new car ever 300k miles…i…i mean 3-5 years…)

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:40:08 +0000

I live in rural Arkansas and I have to commute 35 miles to Ft. Smith every day for school and work. Takes me 45-60 minutes one way. I dont have a choice now, but as soon as I do, I’m moving into town and I will never have a long commute again in my life.

By: Kev

Kev — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:01:49 +0000

Ha! I do over 700 miles each way (Louisville, KY to Salisbury, MD). Usually takes about 5 hours by air. I’m a pilot so luckily I fly for free and I only have to do the commute 1 to 2 times a week. It still really sucks.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:30:45 +0000

I travel about 40 mins in a morning and about 35 on way back (traffic is less). I have been considering setting off earlier and arriving at work earlier so my journey is quicker and I save on petrol.

I hope that guy who drives 186 miles gets paid a lot! /

By: fivecentnickel.com

fivecentnickel.com — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:29:29 +0000

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By: Khyron

Khyron — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:05:18 +0000

What most people seem to be forgetting is that this guy has worked for Cisco for almost 20 years. He’s bloody rich! Cisco was founded in 1984. Do the math. With options alone, he was cashing out big in the mid 90s.

Add to that the fact that he lives on a ranch (according to the interview) and his wife probably doesn’t work. How many of us can say that? So I don’t feel bad for him or think him a fool. He likes his job. He has the lifestyle he wants. And he can probably stop working with few, if any, worries.

How many of you can say any of that, nevermind all of it?

Cisco timeline: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/timeline/

By: Oneil

Oneil — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:43:06 +0000

I normally do approx 100 miles each way everyday from Philadelphia PA to Parsippany NJ. Kinda crazy I know, but it runs me 90 minutes each way. Im a management consultant and have been on the road for 11 yrs now…just cannot stand staying at the hotels no matter if its a Hilton, Sheraton or Marriott Yep, I must be insane

By: mbhunter

mbhunter — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:59:13 +0000

Mine’s about 20-25 minutes one way.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:40:26 +0000

10 minutes each way when I have class. Otherwise 30 seconds to my home office!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:39:02 +0000

When I lived in Michigan my commute was longer than that guy’s. Most days I spent more time driving to and from work than I did working.

One of many, many, MANY reasons I’m thrilled not to live in Michigan anymore. Driving to work now takes me 20 minutes, and going home only takes 45. (It’d be an hour each way if I took the bus and train, which I’d have to do if I didn’t work midnights. But since I do work midnights, I can park downtown.)

By: Tim MMF

Tim MMF — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:25:03 +0000

What a fool! That’s so much wasted time & money everyday! It takes me 7-10 minutes to get to school.

I would never drive more than 20-30 minutes one way to go to a job.

By: Tricia

Tricia — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:38:56 +0000

Like Money Dummy, my commute is just a few seconds to walk up to my office. I love the fact I work at home, but I sometimes miss the commute. The longest one I have ever had in my life was about 30 minutes. I think about a 15 minute commute is enough time to wind down and make the transition from work to home. With working at home, you switch on a dime. It takes a while getting used to.

My husband used to commute an hour to work, and I thought that was insane. I don’t know how that guy can three and a half hours driving one way. Wow.

By: Inchoate Random Abstractions

Inchoate Random Abstractions — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:27:36 +0000

30 minute walk or 10 minute bus ride. In addition to the gas saving tips from CNN Money, check out the article in Fortune magazine (there’s a link on my blog entry from 4/18).