What is the longest commute you would consider

Recently I came across some one doing a commute form NI to work in Dublin the journey is over two hours each way, they do it because the salary for their profession is paid a lot less in NI, so they think its is worth it.

I don't think any money is worth that sort of commute and then their is the cost of the fuel and the millage you would be putting on your car.

shruikan2553

30 mins. Could maybe do up to a hour but there would have to be good reason for me to not move closer or a lot of money.

Banjo String

Pretty sure that two hour commute is a piece of píss compared to the employees of the international space station.

krudler

My current one is 20 mins or so door to door, have it down to the minute at this rate

Sir Arthur Daley

Back in the day of the Concorde i used to commute 8 hours a day, i remember it well it used fly so fast that i could have breakfast in London and then fly to New York in time for a Macdonalds Macmuffin.

Boskowski

I used to do 45 mins each way daily and I found that hard going over time. 45 mins would be my limit I think.
I know people put up with longer commutes than that and I suppose if I was really struggling for a job I would, too. But anything around 1 hour or more is seriously affecting quality of life. That's a full extra shift per week sitting in your car

Right now I'm doing 20 minutes each way, on a good day 15. Thats fine.

iMac_Hunt

The most I would commute is half hour. The work day and work week is long enough without having 20 hours driving on top of it.

The Backwards Man

When I was a pup just out of school, north Donegal to Dundalk, up and down every day. Leave home at 5.45 am, start work at 8.30 (laying 2x2 pavers on a roof) leave at 5pm (3 on a Friday) and be home before 8.

Used to deliver salmon to the market in Dublin from Donegal as well. No motorways in those days, four and a half hour down the road, lug 440 fishboxes across a concrete floor, four and a half hours back up the road stinking of fish.

Currently leave the house 2 hours and 15 minutes before my first lecture, bit of a pain. If I was working an hour would be the absolute limit on driving and it'd have to be consistent.

RichT

mariaalice wrote: »

Waht the longest commute you would consider

I'd like to commute the 'h' in front of the 't' in the OP and if we're feeling frisky add an apostrophe and an 's'

Skill Magill

must be commuting on foot to do that in 2 hrs

wp_rathead

Hour and a half some days and 40 mins other days

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Anything within an hour is fine. Any further and it might be cheaper to rent a room in a house share.

Renegade Mechanic

I could do an hour each way and be grand. Ive done much more before but its a bit of a pain in the hole tbh at a half hour at the moment. Happy at that.

Semele

I was doing an hour and a half for 6 months on my last placement, dreary motorways for most of it and then ages wedged in rush hour traffic in Bolton. Fine now and again but I got to the point where I'd dread the thought of going home because of having to face the journey again and wanted to hide under my desk and cry instead. I used to do the same length in London to get across the city some days but that always seemed to go faster for some reason.

Sir Arthur Daley

The Backwards Man wrote: »

(laying 2x2 pavers on a roof)

lug 440 fishboxes across a concrete floor,

No manual handling regulations in those days.

Cookie_Monster

not more than 30 minutes door to door. Current commute is about 7 minutes in and 12 home.

Banjo String wrote: »

Pretty sure that two hour commute is a piece of píss compared to the employees of the international space station.

a couple of hours ever few months and otherwise working from 'home', sounds ideal to me.

The One Doctor

Banjo String wrote: »

Pretty sure that two hour commute is a piece of píss compared to the employees of the international space station.

It only takes 9 minutes to get into orbit, the rest is just waiting for the ISS to catch up.

323

Does China count?
Presently working 4 weeks on/4 weeks off in China. 2 hours to airport, 2 flights, 2 ferries then an hour or so on a helicopter.
Commute of sorts.

The Backwards Man

WikiHow wrote: »

No manual handling regulations in those days.

True. Kept us fit though.

Fr_Dougal

Used to do 1 1/4 to work and 1 1/2 to 2hr home, was a killer, up at 5.30am and not home 'til 6.30-7pm. Only takes 10-15min to work now and 20min home, really looking forward to the stretch in the evenings.

orangesoda

2 hours isn't overly strange, many people have an hour and a half journey from belfast to derry. My max would be an hour, belfast and derry city are both within 50 mins of me

Rasheed

I'd rather drive for an hour than sit in traffic for an hour so distance doesn't make or break it for me.

Used to do 50 mins each way. After fours nights in a row I'd have to drive home with the window open. I can't complain at the moment though, I'm less than a mile from work.

Freddie Dodge

Depends on whether driving or sitting in traffic.

I've done from the Beara peninsula to both Cork and Limerick at times and loved driving when most people are sleeping.

I've also spent well over an hour crawling from Kilmainham to Howth at walking pace hating every moment. Dublin is a lovely city to live in, in many ways, but the traffic impinges badly on the experience.

tldr version: City; half hour to forty is ok. Rural location: <2hrs ok for me.

hairyprincess

I currently do 45 mins each way, I love driving but realistically, quality of life and cost of fuel, my limit would be an hour. Unfortunately life in rural Ireland means long commutes for a lot of people.

mickstupp

On a good day mine takes two hours each way.
Which is better than it used to be... but still crap.

I'd love to be within walking distance.

It would depend on where I was living. I'd be willing to commute much further if it meant being able to live back at or near my home house compared to how far id be willing to commute if living away from it.

It would also depend on if it's driving or other means of transport, id tolerate a much longer commute in the car than a long walk or having to get a bus.

maryishere

now only 10 minutes. Spent 2 hours a day commuting in + out of Dublin city centre a few years ago and I would never like to do more than that.

PanBrian

*New York via concorde*...ooops....just woke up...just a dream....

biko

My longest was an hour one way, all public transport. It was ok after a while, you get used to it and can drift away on the bus/train.

Moonbeam

1 hour max

KungPao

Have done the 75 half way across Dublin + 25 minute walks through Sandyford to work...a bit gruelling at 1hr 20m, especially during last summer (on the way home) during the heatwave....kids decided it was a great idea to head home from DL at rush hour bus was like an Indian train...surprised the drivers allowed it thinking back, it was proper over-filled.

Not much fun.

Right now, doing a 15 min bus trip to CC and 20 brisk walk to college. Not so bad.

To answer the Q, 1:30 MAX!

KERSPLAT!

I'm a 10 minute walk from work but an hour from college at the moment. In my last job a good day would be getting there or home in less than an hour, a bad day could be two hours each way

we'llallhavetea

i'd say forty at a push and only because i like singing in the car.

dd972

Saw an article on telly about an English fireman who works something like 7 on and 7 off, sleeps at the station when on duty and goes home to Prague via Easyjet for his 7 days off, I'd imagine his salary would go quite far over there.

Lapin

My earliest college lecture is at 10.00, (thankfully just once a week).

But to get to it on time using public transport, I have to leave the house at 07.15.

flas

is everyone here an idiot, i leave my bed at 9:30 and in work for 10,I live close to where I work,something really wrong with the world travelling for ovèr an hour to get to work,its sick,...

ahnowbrowncow

flas wrote: »

is everyone here an idiot, i leave my bed at 9:30 and in work for 10,I live close to where I work,something really wrong with the world travelling for ovèr an hour to get to work,its sick,...

You're absolutely right. People who commute for more than half an hour are idiots. Can you believe they've never thought of moving closer to where they work?

Grade A idiots.

Jude13

I used to drive 2.5 hours to and from work, it was a nightmare. Did it for one year and then changed job.

Menas

3 secs when I work from home. 35 when I go to office.
I like the drive to work....stick on the radio and enjoy the trip.

kippy

20 mins. Max.
A 2 hour each way commute adds 20 hours a week to your work week......that reduces your actual hourly wage if you think about it.
That coupled with the fact that your fuel and car maintenance costs would be significant cut into your hourly take home rate as well....
Them theres the considerable dangers with spending 4 hours a day on the road on top of a work day.......if you've a family you dont see much of em.....

At the end of the day I dont think people consider all the factors involved at all and that far lower paying jobs closer to home actually make more sense......

Jude13

I didnt have a choice sadly, I needed a job. It served its purpose and was on dangerous roads, never again.

gramar

Years back one summer I used to thumb to a job about 6 miles away.
15 mins to walk to where I could thumb from. Then anything from 5 to 30 minutes to get a lift and another 10 minute walk when I was dropped off and then the same again coming home.

Princess Peach

If I could drive from my house in no traffic during peak times and park for free in Dublin centre, it would be maybe 30 minutes each way.

Sadly traffic and Dublin bus routes bring this in at about an hour most days. Don't mind it too much though, get a good bit of reading or gaming done

I prefer to live a bit farther away and have a nice place to live that I can afford than move closer to the centre and be broke and/or live in a shoebox!

Penny Tration

At the moment, I have a fifteen minute walk, 20 minute bus trip and a ten minute walk, so 45 minutes. It's handy enough because I don't start work til ten. Up at half 7, leave the house at 9, home by 7 or 8pm.

My last job was a ten minute walk, 1 and a half hours on a bus (poxy rush hour) and another teb minute walk, so just under 2 hours. Getting home was faster, bus only took 25 minutes because I avoided rush hour in the evening

the_syco

Previous job was a half hour train and an hour bus, each way. Maybe two hours each way for a short term would be doable, but I'd probably move closer for anything over an hour and a half each way.

joe stodge

15 mins on a bike, was offered another job about an hour away in a car.
I didn't take it as I have 2 young kids and leaving at 6am to be in work for 7am and leaving at 4pm to get home for 5:15pm would mean I'd only be able to spend time with them at the weekends.

Money isn't everything.

Daithi2014

@323 wow thats long! What do u work at?

An hour if it's on a coach bus so I can nap. A lot less if it were on a train or dublin bus

anncoates

Currently 50 minutes door to door (on Luas). Longest I ever did was about 2 hours each way. I've got a family and moertgage so It's hard to say what's the worst I'd do: probably pretty bad.

Pinch Flat

20km cycle each way so about 40 minutes currently. Have considered jobs that would take that to 30km, which would be my limit