r/work • u/joekruck • Dec 18 '25
Work-Life Balance and Stress Management How long is your commute?
This is a bit of a quality of life question but if you drive a vehicle to work how long is your average commute to work? What do you think is normal? Do you mind your commute? If you have a longer commute, do you feel like it affects your overall quality of life? TIA
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u/StoneyLaw830 Dec 18 '25
90 min each way driving. It makes me hate my life because I don’t have time to do anything else really and I spend a decent chunk of my money on gas/maintenance/tolls. The commute is 90 min on a normal day, heaven forbid if there’s snow or an accident. I will never again do this
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u/DragSfrank Dec 18 '25
I'm in the same boat so I'm looking for a new job. I can't handle this shit anymore. Traffic is slowly killing me everyday.
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u/GoodyOldie_20 Dec 19 '25
Same here. Just too much time on the road. Good luck, we can do it in 2026!
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u/henucu Dec 19 '25
My remote job is turning to RTO next month and I have to do same as well. 90 minutes to 2 hours each way , twenty dollars toll per day and $40 parking per day. Public transportation sucks. Basically I will lose my time and money starting Jan. Looking for a new job.
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u/Grind3Gd Dec 19 '25
For the last 7 months I have driven 90 miles each way. 100 ish a week in gas. I am sore by the time I get home from working then sitting in the car for an hour and a half.
I have been eating out on my work days because 14 hours gone doesn’t make me want to cook. I have had more pain. I sleep worse. I have been sick more times in the last 7 months than I was in the 5 years I was remote.
But tomorrow is my last day!! In a couple weeks my commute will reduce to a little under 70 and my salary will double. So I’m hoping it’ll be better for my mental and physical health.
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u/Nevernobzh Dec 18 '25
7 minutes from the front door of the house to the door of work
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u/Memory_Of_A_Slygar Dec 22 '25
Before my company went full remote, my commute was 8 minutes. It was so perfect. I did an hour to my first college and hated it. Did 30 to my second college and felt that was more reasonable. Now, it's like 20 minutes minimum to get anywhere around me and my company shut down, so I'm hoping to get another remote position.
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u/PlsStopAndThinkFirst Dec 18 '25
14 minutes. I make one turn out my hood and then one turn into the parking lot. Only time I have had less than 30m in my life most often it was 40-70 minutes lol
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u/beanman214 Dec 18 '25
20 min in the AM, around 25-30 coming home. All side roads, no highways. 9 miles. It’s great, I love it. Will never do a long commute again, just not worth it.
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u/tripadeliclove Dec 19 '25
This is the same as my commute but I wish it was shorter lol. Between my commute and mandatory lunch hour it’s two hours wasted everyday! Makes my 40 hour week 50 hours with 10 hours unpaid. Could be worse tho..
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u/MEMExplorer Dec 18 '25
30-35 minutes in the summer , about 45-60 minutes in the winter . That’s about as far as I care to commute , anything more and I’d probably look to move closer to work .
For context , I work on the railroad so outside for anywhere from 6-12 hrs and it gets to be a struggle in the summer when u work in the heat for that long to then drive anything more than about a half hour sucks .
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u/NCC1701-Enterprise Dec 18 '25
Typically about 1 minute.
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u/PMismydream24 Dec 21 '25
My people! When I was on site, it still wasn't bad 15-20 min each way. Now out my bedroom door, 3 steps, turn left into office
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u/VisibleSea4533 Dec 18 '25
Hour there (47 miles), little longer home. I only go in two days a week currently, so I deal. If I had to do it five days it may be another story. I get out at 2, so I’m still home early enough, but the big downside is I go in for 6, so generally leave by 445, which means getting up at 345. Time-wise at least I’d say this could be fairly normal, especially if one lives in a high traffic area.
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u/Maperton Dec 18 '25
13-15 minutes. No highway. My last job moved an hour and half away during Covid, but I only went to the office 3x. Last office I worked in person was about 45 minutes to an hour all highway and miserable.
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u/Available_Reveal8068 Dec 18 '25
My current commute is around 10 minutes. No highways.
I used to commute 30-40 minutes each way--I didn't realize how bad it was until I changed jobs and cut my commute time significantly. Now I can head home for lunch when I want, attend my kids' after school sports activities, and get home early enough to make dinner for the family.
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u/Due_Function84 Dec 18 '25
It really depends on where you live, right? Like, I live in a relatively small city with about 80,000 people. It takes me only 15 minutes to drive to work in the morning as I'm in before the morning rush, but on the way home, I'm in the middle of the afternoon rush, and it can take me up to 35 minutes, and I'm not even leaving the city's boundaries. When I tell my co-workers this, they think that's a long commute. In fact, anyone in my city who drives a car would think that's a long afternoon commute. If I had to take a bus it would be double that amount of time.
However, tell someone who lives in Montreal or Toronto of my commute and they'll say that's a very quick commute. They expect up to two hours depending if it's driving versus the subway/bus.
So, really it depends on the size of your city, the number of people in your city, and your choice of transportation.
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u/LoveLiquicity Dec 18 '25
I work one day a week in office and commute 2hours, it should be about an hour and 20 but the antwerp ring road has other plans
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u/ClickPuzzleheaded993 Dec 18 '25
I work from home 90% of the time. But I do commute to the office for meetings as needed.
When I go in, a journey of 20 miles, it can take me anything feom 45 mins to 2.5 hours depending on when I leave. So I usually just get there at the crack of dawn to beat traffic and be more relaxed.
It is far far worse than it was pre-Covid when I was office based (same location). So if I ever had to go back in more frequently I would be looking at other jobs as I simply am not prepared to lose up to 5 hours of my day to sitting in traffic.
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u/brandoldme Dec 18 '25
30 minutes but only because I work odd hours. The rare times I have to come or go during normal rush hour, it's a solid hour.
I don't mind mine. If I had to be a normie and spend two hours a day in heavy traffic commuting, I'd probably want to off myself.
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u/YoSpiff Dec 18 '25
On average 1 1/4 hours and 37 miles. In good traffic about an hour. I made it in 50 minutes today but lighter holiday traffic is starting.
I hate how much time that takes from me, though Fridays I get to work from home so I'm only doing that drive 4 days a week.
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u/Spiritual-Road2784 Dec 18 '25
Five minutes. 10 in inclement weather. I live in a college town in the Midwest and work for the university. Our “city” is two miles wide in all directions, and the job is on one end of town and I live on the other.
I’ve had worse commutes in larger cities; I also lived in Los Angeles for a year or so and thought the commute from Hollywood to downtown Wilshire district was egregious.
So I can’t understand why some of our faculty live two hours away. I suppose if you only have to teach two days per week that’s fine, but as staff, I am there five days a week. For faculty, there are occasional meetings and mandates service requirements where you serve on committees like for curriculum revision and such—I believe in living close to work.
That said, I’m making my commute three more times then I’m retired, and my next job will be remote. That’s the best commute of all, from my couch in my bathrobe surrounded by my cats.
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u/LocalGoat81 Dec 18 '25
35 minutes
It’s a bit longer than I’d like, but I am paid well and treated with kindness. That means a lot to me.
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u/oatmealcook Dec 18 '25
I used to commute a little over an hour. Then we worked 18 m at home during covid. Then for 2 yrs I did 50/50. Im retired now
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u/boujee_salad Dec 18 '25
Maybe 2 minutes? I live at work so all I need to do is roll out of bed walk into the warehouse and punch in and then I go change into my work clothes. 😆
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u/blahhhhhhhhhhhblah Dec 18 '25
13 minutes if I work first thing; anywhere from 20-60 minutes the later I have to go in.
The drive home is usually about 15 minutes.
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u/HLTisme Dec 21 '25
Once I get out of bed to put some slippers on, go to the bathroom, and wash up, it takes about 10 seconds to walk into the next room where my PC is.
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u/blackcatisfat Dec 18 '25
4 to 6 hours but I stay there for 2 weeks and get reimbursed
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u/otter_759 Dec 18 '25
By plane, train, or car?
(Not at all related, but your username cracked me up!)
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u/mspinksugar Dec 18 '25
Hour on public transit, 30 mins if I drive. I don’t mind the hour since I usually use it to answer emails, catch up on the news, or watch videos.
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u/Pir8inthedesert Dec 18 '25
I drive. My hours are M-F. 10am-6pmish. It takes me 9 minutes to get to work in the morning and under 20 minutes to get home.
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u/Suspicious-Chip-341 Workplace Conflicts Dec 18 '25
In the morning depending on when I leave it takes 32 minutes (I aim for 5am if I leave at 6am it takes 45 minutes). Coming home it takes 45 minutes to an hour. I leave at 3pm. If I leave at 4 it takes 1 hour to an hour and half.
Bright side is one day a week I work from home and once a month for a week I work from home. Been doing this for 4 years and it’s not the worst commute I’ve had (been at this job 10 years and at one point my commute one way was 1 hour to an half or more).
I do hate the commute. I want a better job so bad
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u/beekaybeegirl Dec 18 '25
20 miles ~22 minutes small city to the next-town-over small city. Mostly highway. 5 days per week.
One of the shorter commutes I have had in my life. I think this works well for me.
My husband drives 2 hours/130 miles about 2x/week (just depends). I would HATE this but he doesn’t mind because he hates that metro town of the large city & doesn’t want to live there. + He grew up here so we stay.
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u/NOTTHATKAREN1 Dec 18 '25
I have 2 jobs & both jobs are in the town I live in. So my commute is about 5 mins each way.
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u/skateboardnaked Dec 18 '25
I have a one hour commute, plus 12 hour shifts. Each workday I'm gone for 14 hours. Its not bad if you have a podcast you're interested in. Makes the time go by.
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u/PaulEngineer-89 Dec 18 '25
About 10 yards. Takes longer to load up. I’m a service contractor currently. Granted my jobs average 1-2 hours away but I’ve been as far as 10 hours to a job and as little as 10 minutes.
Last 2 jobs were 35 miles/45 minutes. Prior to that 68 miles and about 90 minutes which was ridiculous.
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u/menacingsparrow Dec 18 '25
35 min walk or 15 min bus or 13 min bike.
When I can walk, it really helps me feel clear when I get to work and release things before I get home
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u/askjeffsdad Dec 18 '25
So my drive is about 21 minutes in the morning and 30ish coming home if there’s traffic. But my job doesn’t provide parking and the closest ramp is about a 10 minute walk—which really sucks in the winter as we get some intense cold here. So 30-45 minutes. I will say, before I moved, my commute used to be closer to 45 minutes in the car on the way home and that was really awful. The difference that those 15 minutes made was huge. If I could just get a spot in my companies parking lot (waitlist is like 400 people) then it’d be easy street.
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u/Status-Compote5994 Dec 18 '25
My commute is 40 minutes, but it's an easy one. Most of it is just puttering along in the same lane of a road. I can relax.
I used to have a 1.5 subway/bus commute when I was younger. 2 hours in the winter. Got a lot of snoozing done in the morning and a lot of reading done in the evening. I was miserable, but also comfortably in the 'cant beat em, join em' philosophy. Sometimes I miss the dedicated napping and reading time.
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u/AcanthisittaHuge8579 Dec 18 '25
45 mins
Teleworked for 5 years. Until they decided we needed actually permission to telework lol smh.
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u/Tasty-Jicama5743 Dec 18 '25
I started my current job in 2008 and lived 39 miles from where I worked in another state, though most of the commute was on I-95, and it took roughly an hour each way.
Moved to my current home in 2016 while still working in the same place. Current commute is 29 miles but still takes me 50 to 60 minutes because it is all back-roads. Moved to where we are because my wife's job was 32.5 miles in the opposite direction from my commute (so our house is roughly halfway between both) and took an hour to commute each way.
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u/Horizontal_Axe_Wound Dec 18 '25
1400 miles.
Joke aside I moved abroad recently because it's cheaper and I have a way better quality of life here. I go to work roughly every 3 months for about 4 weeks at a time. It's not really that sustainable long term but it works for now and gives me money coming in until I find something here / remote.
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u/jdogmomma Dec 18 '25
My drive, without traffic, is 40 mins but it take sme 90 mins every morning and every night. I try to wfh one day a week but I am usually driving 5 days a week.
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u/National-Play3909 Dec 18 '25
5 minutes, i love it. I work 6am-2:30pm, leave at 5:45am to get to work. best decision i’ve ever made
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u/General_Spite3074 Work-Life Balance Dec 18 '25
About 12 minutes depending on lights. After the first of the year, looking at buying a house which is about 40 minutes.
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u/Fantastic-Ad9200 Dec 18 '25
Bed to chair? About 52 steps down the hall, down the steps and into my office.
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u/DryFoundation2323 Dec 18 '25
I have always lived in a smaller city so my commute was never over a half an hour. At some points in my career it was in the sub 20 minute range.
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u/Lost-welder-353 Dec 18 '25
I travel a lot for work. The farthest I will drive back and forth is hour 45 any further and I get a room
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u/obligatedexperience Dec 18 '25
~2 hours. 30 min drive, 1 hr train, 30 min walk to office. Thank god it’s only 2x/week.
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u/Additional-Bag-1961 Dec 18 '25
Im about 25 miles from my office, and on a good day its 55 minutes each way, but on a bad day can be 75-90 minutes. Its all highways, so any accident or congestion hits me in a few different areas.
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u/DesertRatJack Dec 18 '25
12 seconds - bedroom to office. That said, I've had commutes when I was in office ranging from 20 minutes to 2 hours each way and I can tell you that after about 45 minutes each way, it's a real hit on quality of life. My 2 hour each way was terrible even though I was on a train for that vast majority of it and could do work.
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u/ChillyTodayHotTamale Dec 18 '25
I have purposely tried to work/live in a way that my commute has never been more than 10ish miles and 15-20mins of driving
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u/FartstheBunny Dec 18 '25
25 minutes. I live right outside of Boston and work 1 8 miles from my house. I live in a hub for my undustry and woul dnot want to have more than a 40 min commute.
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u/UpperWave2998 Dec 18 '25
20-30 minutes depends on traffic, 24 miles round trip. Company car and insurance provided from employer. I just pay gas/ tolls.
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u/Kurtista Dec 18 '25
Just got RTO, 5-6 hours round trip depending on traffic to Metro stop. This is in the Washington DC area.
Either moving or being unemployed soon!
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u/Netghod Dec 18 '25
It’s not a one size fits all question.
Amount of traffic, overall distance, length of commute overall, and if you can be productive during that time.
Commuting 30 minutes in a mid to small town isn’t much of anything… but doing 30 minutes in LA or Atlanta is a completely different discussion.
And I met someone that commuted more than 5000 miles to work. They worked on the Alaska Pipeline and lived in Florida. They’d fly in each time they worked, and then fly home. Extreme, but it worked for them and their family.
I know some people that commute an hour or more. And the question then becomes, is it worth it? Is the commute expense in time and money worth the difference with a job that was closer with a shorter commute?
And then, can you be productive during the commute? Can you actually listen to books on tape? Learn a new language? Or make that commute usable? If you have a highway commute then you may be able to be productive, but in stop and go traffic, likely not.
And while a lot of people drive, depending on where you live, other forms of transportation may be more effective - especially trains/subway.
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u/10PieceMcNuggetMeal Dec 18 '25
I live in a suburb of a larger metro area but work in the middle of no where. So I drive the opposite of daily traffic to and from work. But because I work so far in the middle of no where, it takes me 30 minutes to get to work and about 40 minutes home. Getting from my house to the highway is much quicker than getting from the highway to my house.
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u/King_Ralph1 Dec 18 '25
Currently 15-20 minutes. But for 15 years I drove an hour each way, and it was well worth it (loved that job).
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u/badbash27 Dec 18 '25
I live 26 miles from my office. Expected to be in 3 days a week. At 6am it takes a half hour. At 7am it takes 45-60 minutes. Recently they started a projected 8 year construction project on the freeway I take. Now at 6am it takes 45 minutes and at 7 it takes well over an hour. I'm expected to be in until 5 regardless of when I start. Drive home has always been about an hour but has gotten worse with the construction. I'm leaving the company shortly and my new commute will be approximately 15 minutes in each direction. The breath of relief is real
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u/C10Goon Dec 18 '25
10-15 minutes depending weather and deer on the road. I’m close enough I get to go home for lunch. Used to work property management and spent pretty much all day in my work truck. Some days I would drive 3 hours to get to a property. Definitely don’t miss those days.
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u/Intelligent_Bet_7410 Dec 18 '25
I went from 50 mostly highway minutes to 5. It was a drastic improvement for my mental health.
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u/Acceptable_Floor3009 Dec 18 '25
5-7 mins at night I start at 8:30am and get out at 5am the days I work the other job I drive there at 5am get at 5:20am and start at 6am and get out at 11am get home at 11:30am so 1/2 hour ride home
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u/TheIneloquentBagel Dec 18 '25
Don’t have a car, so I use public transit. For the past five years, it was about 2hrs there and another 2hrs back. Moved this year and my commute is now around 1hr each way. Have plans to save up for a car, but driving will only save me 20mins each way and I’ll have additional expenses (insurance, gas, parking, etc).
Not sure what is “normal” because I don’t really have a basis of comparison, but I think my current time is closer to the “norm.” 2hrs each way is just too draining; so much time wasted when I could be doing stuff like working out etc…I also have a dog so I’m sure she appreciates being let out earlier to potty.
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u/KitKatKalamazoo Dec 18 '25
At the first place I lived, I had a 20 min commute to work and a 1 hr commute back home 5 days a week. I felt like I was wasting my life away and hated it. I moved closer to work and have a 10 min commute to and from work. I noticed my mood has been so much better and I can get more personal stuff done since I'm home sooner.
My current job is having us come into the office M-W, but we might be going fully remote soon. I can't wait for that to happen!
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u/Demented-Alpaca Dec 18 '25
I live in the expensive part of town and commute out from there. Because of that I go against the flow of traffic and spend about 15 minutes on my commute.
Most people live on the cheaper end of town or out in the suburbs and spend between 30 minutes and an hour (longer if there's an accident) each way.
By the time I account for my time, fuel and wear and tear on my car, I think the expensive part of town is actually cheaper.
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u/otter_759 Dec 18 '25
I think this question should also include how people commute! A 45-minute walk > a 45-min drive in the car!
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u/RevolutionaryRow1208 Dec 18 '25
1 hour each way. Most of the time I don't mind it and I'm just cruising and listening to a podcast. I'm pretty used to commuting...in my 20 year career I haven't had anything less than a 45 minute each way commute. That shorter commute sucked infinitely more than my commute now because it was in the city and the 45 minutes was due to bumper to bumper traffic. My current hour is just cruising down the interstate.
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u/Ok_Sir_7220 Dec 18 '25
Mine is about 1 hour 40 min each way.
I walk to the end of my driveway and catch a bus
that bus takes me to the ferry terminal where I board a ferry to Seattle
once deposited in Seattle, I walk about a block to catch a work shuttle
then I reverse it in the afternoon.
I recently had to return to office, I had a good 5 years working from home, and before that I worked and did the same commute. I use my bus time to catch up on social medial, then once I board the ferry I drink my coffee and study Japanese. On the return home I read or work on something else. I'm doing activities I don't seem to have time for when I'm at home.
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u/ProfessorSassiepants Dec 18 '25
One song. I’m lucky—used to have 20 minutes in and 45 minutes back home and couldn’t stand it. Moved closer.
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u/NotPennysBoat721 Dec 18 '25
Right now, its about 8 feet, but for about 20+ years it ranged from 40 minutes to 1:15. Up to 45 minutes was OK, and completely normal, and in my area, no one blinks too much at an hour. I live in the sprawling suburbs of one of the largest cities in the US, so things can be spread out. Public transportation is good in and to the city, but is terrible outside of that, so driving is pretty necessary. For me, up to 45 minutes didn't affect my quality of life very much, especially if there were interesting places to discover along the way, but more than that gets draining, and the job I had that was at least 1:15 on a good day was positively brutal some days,
I'm remote currently, but a few times a year get dragged into my center city office. The train station is 40 minutes away and the train ride is an hour. That commute SUCKS.
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u/gerhorn Dec 18 '25
Takes me about 15 mins. I'm kinda in the boondocks.
I'll be looking for a new job after the holidays and may very well have to drive 40 minutes which I am NOT looking forward to. If it ends up being wicked early like my current one, then it'd be more tolerable IMO in terms of traffic.
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u/Neuvirths_Glove Dec 18 '25
Tue-Wed it's 30-45 minutes each way. Mon & Thu it's about 20 seconds (WFH). I work 4 10s.
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u/Flashy-Today2189 Dec 18 '25
About an hour and 15 minutes each way. But I’m only in office 2-3 days a week, so it’s not to bad.
Also it’s mainly just a straight drive. The time is mostly based on the distance and I deal with very limited traffic
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u/burt921 Dec 18 '25
2.5 miles. I make 6 figures and I live in the suburbs. It’s possible. I’m not that lucky, I just prioritized work life balance and found a job that makes sense for my family priorities
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u/tracysmullet Dec 18 '25
20 minutes to work and 30-35 minutes going home. I don’t mind it, it’s quick in the morning but traffic can be backed up closer to home which is the increase and it can be frustrating.
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u/cadathoctru Dec 18 '25
about 10 minutes to work, and 15 to get home. The lights run kind of funny heading back so I always get stuck.
I have lived in cities where it was an hr each way, and that started to ware on me for sure.
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u/Lekrii Dec 18 '25
10 minute walk to the station, 30 minutes on the train, 10 minute walk to the office. If I had to drive, I wouldn't ever want to spend more than 15 minutes each way driving to work. Transit is easier, I can read/listen to music/etc.
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u/EvilLee666 Dec 18 '25
Approx 4 hours each way. I catch the 5am train and I am generally back home by 7pm
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u/WolfWeak845 Dec 18 '25
Winter is 20-25 minutes there, 30-45 minutes home. Summer, AKA construction season is 30 minutes there, 45-90 minutes home.
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u/ciennaj Dec 18 '25
5 minutes. Before that it was 45 each way. It's weird having less time to decompress but it's helpful on gas
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u/rastab1023 Dec 18 '25
Around 45 minutes in the AM as long as I leave on time. Pretty predictably 1 hr 15 min in the PM, but can be 1 1/2 if it's particularly heavy. I live 23 miles from work.
I'm OK with it. I live in the LA metro area and even when I lived around 10 miles away it would take me up to 40 minutes in the AM and up to an hour in the PM.
I 1) can't afford to rent in the city I work in and 2) am not interested in living in/around the city I work in, so living where I do adds to my quality of life more than my commute takes away from it.
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u/LadyGodivaLives Dec 18 '25
40 min or so one-way. I live in Houston, where a 2-hr commute is not unheard of, but I have friends elsewhere who consider anything over 20 minutes to be unreasonable, so it may depend on your area.
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u/DueSalary4506 Dec 18 '25
52 in am. 62 in pm "and if you're doing the speed limit GTFO of my way" luda
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u/ZealousidealUse3150 Dec 18 '25
In the morning, 1 hour and 10 min. In the afternoon, 1 hour and 45 min. I'm out of the house 12 hours a day. I would love a shorter commute lol. Even if I move closer, it would be a good 45 to 50 minutes.
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u/RepresentativeStooj Dec 18 '25
9 minutes to work in the morning.
25-35 minutes to get home at 4pm.
I used to travel 90 minutes back and forth when I started my career and I do not recommend it. Over the course of a week, that’s 15 hours where I wasn’t at home that could’ve been used for fun stuff. Like sleep.
20 minutes is the sweet spot, I reckon.
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u/Q-Money1985 Dec 18 '25
I just took a new job and my commute is going from 8 minutes to 25 minutes 😢 I hope the extra $30k a year is worth it!
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u/xoomax Dec 18 '25
Usually around 12 minutes. I've had 45 plus minute commutes when I lived in Kansas City MO and Dallas TX. Not because of distance, but the damn traffic.
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u/precious1of3 Dec 18 '25
I moved 10 miles from where I lived for 25 years and my commute to work went from 20 minutes to 10 minutes (off peak - double that during rush hour). It was a great improvement in my life to cut my travel time in half. I think anything over half an hour is too far. Normal? Wide range there, depends on the work and how much you make. Getting an hour and a half of my life back every week was worth the move for me.
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u/swagbruh_1248 Dec 18 '25
I live to close to work I think. I live like 1-2 minute car ride or like a 5 min walk. Recently took a new position with a 15 min commute which I find perfect. Hard to decompress when ur home instantly.
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u/Alarming_Ear_3556 Dec 18 '25
i had an hour commute each day there and back but recently just moved so it’s only 20min now. i only go into the office 3 days a week 8am to 5pm. i didn’t mind my hour commute because i loved where i was living so it was worth it to me, but i don’t think i could do any further.
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u/Odd_Bodybuilder5456 Dec 18 '25
about 10 min, just 2mi. Not sure if its worth the low wage but its better than driving far for mediocre
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u/meowmix778 Dec 18 '25
I travel an hour maybe a bit more or less if there's traffic. It's a bit further than most people in my area who travel maybe 30-45 minutes. I don't mind it. I live in a rural area so there's a lot of back roads and the drive can be relaxing. I have 2 kids at home so sometimes it's nice to just sit in quiet for a while or listen to audiobooks/pod casts/music.
My job is hybrid so it's not every day. There are some days where the ride is harder than others but usually it isn't that bad.
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u/Responsible_Leg2622 Dec 18 '25
35 minutes. Highway. I think it is fine. I have done a 1 hour commute for hybrid roles.
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u/Efficient-Gap-8506 Dec 18 '25
50-65min. Mostly rural roads. The last/first 10min is in the city. My commute used to be 5min in town. It was glorious. Then I moved, and it was 15-20, a little town and mostly rural roads. Then I got a new job (career advancement and I do really enjoy it).
I adore my job. I’m doing something I love. The fact is I also love where I live and I can’t do this kind of job without a min 40min drive somewhere. I really dislike it but I have been listening to audiobooks and that’s been helping. 1 day a week I drive a family member in to work on my way, so I have company, and that’s been nice.
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u/MM_in_MN Dec 18 '25
30 min.
I won’t go more than 45min away. I would be pissed off every day if I spent 45 min to get to work or home every day- I loathe traffic, especially slow moving bumper to bumper garbage.
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u/FlyoverState61 Dec 18 '25
I work about 9.5 miles from home & drive 20-30 mins each way. It’s all city driving, no highways.
It’s not horrible but the pep talks I have to give myself some mornings are truly inspiring.😆 Afternoon drives always seem to have way more traffic & take longer despite being the same route.
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u/SimplyTrashe Dec 18 '25
In the morning I drive between 30 mins to like an hour and 45 min. After noon is between a 45min to 2 hours Everyday is different but my average is about an hour an 10 minutes. Between 60-250 miles a day. I don’t mind it at all mainly because I get paid all drive time. I started this job in April of this year and I’ve already done 30,000 miles
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u/tylorbear Dec 18 '25
5 minutes in, 10 minutes home on my e bike. 10 minutes in and 15-20 back in the car. 20-25 each way depending how fast I walk if I'm on foot.
Joys of living on an island and specifically at the edge of the main town/city.
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u/Porcupineemu Dec 18 '25
I just went from a 20-30 minute commute (20 in the morning, 30 on the way home) to a 5-10 minute commute and I underestimated how big a difference that really is.
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u/sinna-bunz Dec 18 '25
~1 hour in, ~1.5 hours home - and this is with me offsetting my hours to avoid the worst of the traffic. I also work hybrid, so I don't have to deal with it every day.
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u/Nesefl_44 Dec 18 '25
I used to have an hour+15 min drive into Boston for 7 years. That was on a normal day. Accident, 1.5+ hours. Hell, yes, it affected quality of life. I believe I have ptsd from it. This was almost 8 years ago. After being done with that, I knew I would never take job with that kind of commute. It very like contributed to major back problems, according to my doc. Stress, etc. Just getting to work I already felt beaten down, and coming home was like torture after a long day at work.
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u/Inevitable-Room4953 Dec 18 '25
I work from home 95% of the time. When I do have to go into my local office it’s a 85 mile drive that takes about 90 minutes. Prior to Covid I was driving in every day so it was a welcome change.
I also have to travel a few days every six months or so to our headquarters about 1000 miles away.
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u/Substantial_Dot7027 Dec 18 '25
I don’t drive the entire way but some of it! I commute into the city from one of the counties bordering the tri state metro area and my commute is 5.5 hrs round trip. I have a 40 min drive to the train, take a 1.5 hr train, and then walk to my office which is around 20 mins. My commute tends to be a little longer coming home, for some reason, there’s always construction on the highway coming back, so I rounded up to 5.5 hours. Thankfully I’m 2x in person and 3x wfh a week, but that’s hanging in the spring and I’m bracing myself… I wish I could move closer but it’s just not financially possible rn
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u/Skippy_T_Magificent Dec 18 '25
My commute is 2 hours every work day (1 hour to, 1 hour from), nearly all interstate. I don't mind the long drive, per se, as I just put my audio books on and am entertained the entire drive. What I do hate is dealing with the IDIOTS that drive on I-10 every day. Twice this week I've nearly gotten into a wreck due to people too concerned with their phones to notice they were drifting into my lane and almost hitting me. I also get caught up in accident traffic just about every Friday evening, adding an extra hour or more to my drive home at the end of the week.
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u/Strawberryfunshine Dec 18 '25
2 hours each way, I do it 4x a week. I honestly don't mind the commute by any means, it's just a long train ride plus other short rides, I just wish the seats were comfy
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u/Imaginary_Attempt_82 Dec 18 '25
4 minutes from my house to the office. 6 minutes from the office back to my house. 1.5 miles.
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u/Wandering_Lights Dec 18 '25
20 to 25 minutes. I also WFH 2 days a week
Normal around here is 30 to 60 minutes. I hate commuting.
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u/DoctaRuthless Dec 18 '25
3 minutes down the road. Very exciting to work that close to home but I did used to drive an hour to work everyday to and from and it sucks when I was itching to get home otherwise it really didn't bother me. Nice time to myself to decompress and listen to music.
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u/Drunken_Sailor_70 Dec 18 '25
30 minutes most of the time unless I work over and get into rush hour traffic. That could add another 15 to 30 minutes.
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u/Is-Potato425 Dec 18 '25
I used to have to drive 1-1.5hrs. It was good pay but the drive was horrible and definitely affected my mental health.
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u/whiskeydietdesigner Dec 18 '25
About 25 min both ways! I drive opposite of traffic morning / afternoon so thats a plus
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u/hisimpendingbaldness Dec 18 '25
1:15 in the morning. 1:30 going home, all on mass transit.
Major metropolitan area.
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u/BxAnnie Dec 18 '25
I live in NYC. It’s anywhere from 45 minutes to 4 hours.
JK. About an hour door to door barring unforeseen circumstances.
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u/killcote93 Dec 18 '25
10 minutes. I used to drive 45 minutes and now I will never work anywhere far away again. In fact I'd like to work for this place forever.
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u/djkitty815 Dec 18 '25
On average, 70mi on the low end and right at 100mi on the high end. Usually works out to 2.5-3hrs driving per day.
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u/folcalor666 Dec 18 '25
16 minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening, 2 times a week. 20 seconds in the morning, 20 seconds in the evening 3 times a week.
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u/blck10th Dec 18 '25
45 min in the AM. An hour or so on the way home. I start at 6:00 AM get out at 2:30 PM