How long does it take you to get to work?

[Cimbri]

My crappy (and recently finished) military job – 2h by train
My crappy renovation job – 6-8 min by foot
My crappy phone job – 30/40 min by train

Cimbri

 

[Scrimshaw]

I've been working at the same company nearly 6 years and moved once. It used to be a 7 minute walk with roughly the same length drive(There was a shortcut so walking was actually shorter distance). I just moved this fall so it's now a 4 minute drive. Considerably longer walk though. Probably 10-15 minutes. Living this close is extremely handy when you have a car as unreliable as mine

 

[hbdragon88]

10 min. I live 3 miles from my high school and my dad always takes me

 

[allan2]

15 minutes, tops. Well, except on the occasions I actually have to get there during a rush hour (when I sub on days sometimes), in which case all the other idiots on the road delay me by another 10-15 minutes....

 

[Sanaz]

5 minute drive

 

[Bamspeedy]

46 miles in ~45 minutes (30-35 minutes if I'm running late because I overslept because I played too much Civ3 )

I live 2 miles off the interstate and my job is a mile off the interstate, so the 3 miles I'm off the interstate slows me down because of the 25mph speed limit, but the other 43 miles I can go 65-70mph. Hardly any traffic at all (I'll see maybe 3 cars on my way home). Living in a rural area is good for something.....

 

[Pongui]

Depends on where the customer is, unless I'm at the workshop, which is close, naturally. If it's a long way out, I charge more or just tell them they live too far away. If it's across the lane, I charge peanuts.

 

[onejayhawk]

small cities have their virtues. Everyplace in town is less than 15 minutes. When I lived in the country, it was about 20 minutes, but we moved to town, so its about 10.

J

 

[Hitro]

I live pretty close to the university, it would take me about half an hour walking (I have to say that I walk quite fast), but usually I take the Streetcar for parts of the way so it's between 15 and 20 minutes.

 

[hbdragon88]

Originally posted by Bamspeedy
46 miles in ~45 minutes (30-35 minutes if I'm running late because I overslept because I played too much Civ3 )

I live 2 miles off the interstate and my job is a mile off the interstate, so the 3 miles I'm off the interstate slows me down because of the 25mph speed limit, but the other 43 miles I can go 65-70mph. Hardly any traffic at all (I'll see maybe 3 cars on my way home). Living in a rural area is good for something.....

So that clue - in the 1000 Clues you've played too much Civilization 3 thread - where you say "You set your alarm clock, not to wake yourself up, but to get you out of that 'just one more turn' syndrome" is true, right?

I thought it was made up...

 

[Stat Kat]

37 miles in 60-75 minutes. The first 25 miles are easy (toll roads) but the last 12 are through downtown on crowded highways... Houston traffic sucks and public transportation is virtually non-existent...

 

[newfangle]

30 minute bike, 25 minute car ride, 45 minute bus ride.

 

[Pongui]

Originally posted by newfangle
30 minute bike, 25 minute car ride, 45 minute bus ride.

You could do the 25 minutes by car, then 30 minutes at the gym or 45 minutes reading/napping at home just to waste time.

 

[HotDog Fish]

It takes 40 minutes to get to my urine soaked, crowed, archaic, under funded, hell-hole that I call a school

 

[cromagnon]

30 minute subway ride door to door. Both home and work are within a 1 minute walk to the subway, so I don't get too wet.

 

[ferenginar]

Average of 1 hr 45 mins each way, on the train, the ferry, and then by car.

ferenginar

 

[Remorseless]

35-45 minutes. I live in a really, really, REALLY tiny town across the river and work in a nice-sized city, so it's a usually calm drive through the country until the last mile. Then it's idiot Texans clogging the road, screeching into their cell phones, slugging back their 7-11 coffee and generally driving just like, well, just like me. Like Wes, the more toodling I do, the slower I go. Especially now in winter when the eagles are making their cold weather home at a lake not two miles from my back door. Living without all the amentities of a large city isn't bad when you get to see an eagle fly right over your head.
The fact he's swooping down on the cute bunnies and squirrels may horrify my daughters, but they'll get over it.

 

[Chairman Yang]

20-30 mins drive

 

[Jeratain]

25 minutes to 2 hours - depending on traffic.