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Its a ~2.6 mile round trip to work and back home. I make that trip 3 times a day or more, depending on what I got going on.

So on any given normal day, 8 miles a day

Some days, 0 miles
Other days, 200+ miles

I walk about 3/4 of a mile to work. No car.

About 55 to work and about 55 back.

When I used to commute in to work, it was about 60 miles total when you factor in dropping off/picking up the kids and the drive out to work and back, and if I went out of the office for lunch.

Nowadays, the kids' schools are local, so its less than 5 miles of driving to drop them off and come back home to work here.

Disregarding the stress of driving in itself, its really nice to have that ~hour and a half back every day.

About 9 total. Love it. Closest I've ever lived to where I worked.

Though I was less than 1 mile from campus in college. That was nice AF. I walked every day.

32. 16 there and 16 back.

Used to be over 100 miles per day (lived like 55 miles from work), now it's much closer, 10 miles

23 there and back

14 miles round trip

19 miles there and 19 miles back... So 38 miles

60 mile round trip

Used to be around 150 km until 2014. Started working from home, so my commute is now maybe 8 metres.

I don't. I either work from home or take public transportation. I live only about 3 miles from work anyway.

I live 11 miles from the office but sometimes I have to go to our main testing site like today (60 miles away) or our HQ (80 miles away)

It feels like a hassle mentally the night before and right before the commute, but once I'm on the road it actually flies by unless there's traffic

Sephirothe posted...

Some days, 0 miles
Other days, 200+ miles

This

I've done 508 miles in a day because I wanted to sleep at home and not in a hotel. Most days I don't leave the house though

Around 10 miles round trip. Maybe a little less.

I bike to work. 4 kilometers.

15 miles there and 15 back. About 22 minutes.

My house is around 1.5 miles away from work. The only reason that I drive to work is because I don't wake up early enough to walk

Im 10.0 miles from driveway to parking lot at work. So I have a 20 mile round trip. 95% of it is highway driving just past all the cornfields and cow pastures to get to the city my university is in. Its a 15 minute trip each way. Not bad at all for farm country in the Midwest.

Round trip? About 30 miles there and back.

I don't drive, but I take a bus to work that is a 1.2mile walk from work. Occasionally I just walk home.

6.8miles round-trip

I voted "less than 5 miles". I live a walkable distance from my job, and I used to walk there every work day. I stopped because something dangerous happened on the street, and it wasn't worth risking my life just to save on gas.

None. I get picked up in the morning and driven home, or wherever I want to go, after work.

Pretty sure it's about a mile to work so 2 miles a day. My Honda probably gonna live until I die.

It's 10.2 miles between home and work because I have to go around and over a mountain to get there (shortest route, if the road is blocked due to accident, I have to take a longer route which is about 12.8 miles)

About 34 miles one way, so 50-100

Work from home most days. But live very close to the office, would consider it walkable, except for one busy street that is not easy to cross.

My main office for work is 22 miles round trip but at least twice a week I have to go to different locations which is about another 15-20 miles.

I work from home but I guess technically I drive about 8 miles per day taking my kid to daycare and back.

I used to take the bus to work, and it was 25 miles each way.

About 80 miles total, depending on my route.

Too many

14 - 7 miles there and 7 miles back

25 to 30 minutes drive as I live in a built up area and traffic is moderate to heavy.

I tend to monitor my commutes by time rather than distance.

I genuinely can't comprehend commutes that are regularly more than 30 minutes each way by car. That feels like time that is being thrown away and you don't get back.

I did take a train to uni years ago and to the first teacher job I had. The travel times we longer but I can multi-task with a train. Reading, quick paperwork, eat breakfast, take a nap.

The place I work is only 1.5 km from my apartment. I either walk or ride my bike.

wackyteen posted...

I make that trip 3 times a day or more, depending on what I got going on.

What's your job that you're going back and forth that much?

I'm on a hybrid schedule but when I have to go in the office (Wed and Thurs every other week) it's about 40 miles one way. I have to get up at 5am those days so I can be in the office by about 6:45 - 7:00 AM in order to be there the "mandatory" 8 hours and leave the office by 3:00 PM. In the morning it takes me about 40-45 minutes to get there, going home it takes me 60-90 minutes (yes even leaving at 3:00 apparently is still rush hour). The hybrid schedule is really the only reason I haven't left the company for something closer because WFH showed me just how awful and stressful the commute is (I did hate it before COVID too but I didn't really have the frame of comparison).

kirbymuncher posted...

What's your job that you're going back and forth that much?

I'm in the Army, I live in barracks.

One trip for first formation/PT, back for breakfast, one trip for morning work, back for lunch, one trip for afternoon work, then released for the day.

This is technically the furthest I've lived from my company. Some places I've lived right across the street from my place of work. Where I'm at now the company and motorpool isn't quite close to the barracks.

KStateKing17 posted...

About 80 miles total, depending on my route.

Every European ever be all like

I don't get it
Why would you drive all that distance when you could walk it instead

Usually 10 miles/day. I usually work at home, but I usually drive my kid to and from school.

I take public transit.