What is the longest commute you would consider

KungPao · 06-03-2014 02:07AM

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! · 06-03-2014 02:13AM

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 · 06-03-2014 02:34AM

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

dd972 · 06-03-2014 02:46AM

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 · 06-03-2014 03:33AM

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 · 06-03-2014 04:51AM

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 · 06-03-2014 05:09AM

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 · 06-03-2014 06:18AM

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 · 06-03-2014 08:33AM

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 · 06-03-2014 08:39AM

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 · 06-03-2014 08:41AM

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

gramar · 06-03-2014 08:43AM

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 · 06-03-2014 08:51AM

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 · 06-03-2014 08:57AM

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 · 06-03-2014 09:21AM

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 · 06-03-2014 09:36AM

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 · 06-03-2014 10:07AM

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

06-03-2014 10:10AM

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 · 06-03-2014 10:37AM

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 · 06-03-2014 10:41AM

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

Pinch Flat · 06-03-2014 10:42AM

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,...

Go you

o1s1n · 06-03-2014 10:46AM

I've always had a long commute so know no different really. At least 1 hour each way for the last 12 years. Some of those years it was up to 1.5 hours.

I've gotten to a point where it's part of my down time. Feels weird without it in the morning.

Although, part of the reason for the above is I've used public transport for all of that. Really need to learn to drive!

Ilyana 2.0 · 06-03-2014 10:55AM

I commute to college, typically two hours each way between the train and bus. Some days I only have one hour of class, which I spend four hours travelling to and from. I'm constantly tired and never get any decent study time.

Would not recommend

titan18 · 06-03-2014 11:00AM

Atm, I've about a 40 minute commute, leave house at about 7.15, train at 7.30, and then about a 15 minute walk after getting off the train, so usually in about 7.55.

Think it's about the max I'd do.

rainbow kirby · 06-03-2014 11:05AM

I did Tallaght to UCD for 7 years by bus, between an hour and an hour and a half each way. Read a lot of books, slept a lot on early morning 75s, and played a lot of GBA/DS games. So much time lost though.

My commute is 20-25 minutes now by train, which is fine. I don't think I'd want longer than around 45 minutes commuting again, it's a pain in the arse.

Michael D Not Higgins · 06-03-2014 11:06AM

At the moment I'm travelling to London quite a lot. 4.5 hours each way, with 20 min walk either side. On those, thankfully, rare days, I'll leave the house at 5am and get back at 10pm.

homerjay2005 · 06-03-2014 11:09AM

no more than 45 minutes to one hour in total...anything else and its time to move house.

jester77 · 06-03-2014 11:13AM

30 mins max is what I would consider, life is too short to be commuting. That is already nearly a full day lost every month just commuting. More than that is not worth it. Better moving to where the job is than commuting.

Daith · 06-03-2014 11:15AM

It used to be 1hr 45min in my previous job. Now it's 5 mins.

um7y1h83ge06nx · 06-03-2014 11:26AM

I work from home 2 to 3 days a week and the office is only about 30 mins away.

I'm lucky in that I've never been more than 20-30 mins from work.

About 2 years ago I'm was considering a job in Galway so I would be commuting to there from Limerick. Reckoned it wasn't worth it. Due to bad rush hour traffic in Galway it could have been about 1.5 hours each way. Now outside of rush hour you could probably do it in about an hour but that would never be realistic.

I hope I'm never forced into taking a job that involves a long commute, I value my time too much.

What is the longest commute you would consider

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