You forgot to put in there I don’t go to work. Could be a stay-at-home mom could be retired could be just basically unemployed so I guess technically that’s a zero but not work from home
Champaign F’in Illinois? You must be kidding! I commuted from the western edge of Champaign F’in Illinois to the center of campus (in Urbana F’in Illinois) in 12 minutes. By bicycle. It’s tiny. The only things there are a mad-monk-colony university and a big hospital. You have to leave on a regular basis or lose what little sanity you have left.
Why not Chicken Bristle, IL? (yes, that’s a place).
Why not Monowi, Nebraska? (smallest incorporated town in the U.S.)?
Not that these polls are scientific, but the separation between zero commute and 20 minutes is more “do you walk or ride a bike” vs. “do you drive” and “what stupid amount of transit or driving do you do”.
Even when I only lived a few blocks from work, it was more than 10 minutes from walking out the door to clock in.
@tinamarie1974 I had home office spaces but eventually morphed into using laptop from bed most of the time. (We generally did not turn on cameras for work meetings — only the management and pretty marketing guys did that)
For a decade (mid 80s-90s) I did a 45-60 minute commute each way Santa Cruz to Silicon Valley. Luckily by that time there was a center divider. Saw so many crashes, and I think one time I was going up the hill on one side and I saw a car rolling down the road sideways on the other side. But no way to stop and look just never know what happened. Also the 1989 earthquake but that is another story.
Got the $#&&# out of Silicon Valley and a new job and house that was 5 minutes from work. But the job sucked.
Got back with my old colleagues in a new startup and did WFH since 2000. At first it was a lot of near-weekly airplane commute. But some were fun like Italy and France.
Retired last year still getting used to it; seems I have more things to do now than then.
Slowly moving to North Carolina where I had friends who also escaped from Silicon Valley (2 of them used to be my housemates in Santa Cruz). So now my commute is 2700mi when I do the West-East seasonal migration until I can release myself from West-coast obligations.
Yes I WFH, I have worked at a paying job since 2020.
You forgot to put in there I don’t go to work. Could be a stay-at-home mom could be retired could be just basically unemployed so I guess technically that’s a zero but not work from home
@Cerridwyn
Yep, stay at home mom here. Zero minute commute.
I did have a job for a good 10 years previously and my commute was about 10-30 minutes depending on traffic and time of day.
During the school year, 30+ minutes, summer time, 15. They really should bus children to school around here!
I’m old & retired, so about two minutes round-trip travel time between bed & pissoire.
But, that’s each occasion.
You can do the arithmetic for the decade tally; I’ve got somewhere I need to go.
@phendrick Good you are still at the point where you can separate bed from pissoire. At some point we might not be so fortunate.
Champaign F’in Illinois? You must be kidding! I commuted from the western edge of Champaign F’in Illinois to the center of campus (in Urbana F’in Illinois) in 12 minutes. By bicycle. It’s tiny. The only things there are a mad-monk-colony university and a big hospital. You have to leave on a regular basis or lose what little sanity you have left.
Why not Chicken Bristle, IL? (yes, that’s a place).
Why not Monowi, Nebraska? (smallest incorporated town in the U.S.)?
Run away!!
/image SoCal commute
@narfcake Do you really drive that highway?!
@Kyeh No, but the one I do commute on doesn’t seem much better.
@Kyeh @narfcake I heard a lot of people are leaving. But it doesn’t look so easy to do.
(Is that deliberate?)
@Kyeh @narfcake @phendrick
/image meme it’s a trap
Almost exactly 30 minutes unless I stop for biscuits and gravy then more like 45.
0 minutes. Retired From Home
75 minutes one way on a good day. Worst was 6.5 hours on my way home one day. Work about 60 miles away, three days a week.
I don’t have a job. I am too broken.
@Pony If you’re poor, you can eventually be wealthy.
If you’re broke, you’re just broken.
Not that these polls are scientific, but the separation between zero commute and 20 minutes is more “do you walk or ride a bike” vs. “do you drive” and “what stupid amount of transit or driving do you do”.
Even when I only lived a few blocks from work, it was more than 10 minutes from walking out the door to clock in.
@DLPanther
Parking is a factor too … it can make driving take longer than riding the bike or bus, if you don’t have a close paid space.
Zero on the WFH days. 15 minutes when I go to the office near me. 50-60 minutes on the rare days that I have to go into the other office.
About 30 steps from my bed to my desk
@tinamarie1974 I had home office spaces but eventually morphed into using laptop from bed most of the time. (We generally did not turn on cameras for work meetings — only the management and pretty marketing guys did that)
Before I quit, 90 minutes. Now 0 as I am looking for my next opportunity.
Most days 0 but 2-3 times a year I have to travel 1,670 miles to the office.
My daily commute is measured in hours.
Has been for the past forty years.
I have no pension or retirement. Just shoot me already.
My commute feels like 8 hours each way… And then 8 hours at the office in between.
Before I quit it was 5 minutes. But now I’m doing school.
@ragingredd
/image Dangerfield Back to School movie poster
For a decade (mid 80s-90s) I did a 45-60 minute commute each way Santa Cruz to Silicon Valley. Luckily by that time there was a center divider. Saw so many crashes, and I think one time I was going up the hill on one side and I saw a car rolling down the road sideways on the other side. But no way to stop and look just never know what happened. Also the 1989 earthquake but that is another story.
Got the $#&&# out of Silicon Valley and a new job and house that was 5 minutes from work. But the job sucked.
Got back with my old colleagues in a new startup and did WFH since 2000. At first it was a lot of near-weekly airplane commute. But some were fun like Italy and France.
Retired last year still getting used to it; seems I have more things to do now than then.
Slowly moving to North Carolina where I had friends who also escaped from Silicon Valley (2 of them used to be my housemates in Santa Cruz). So now my commute is 2700mi when I do the West-East seasonal migration until I can release myself from West-coast obligations.
That is my TL;DR commute story.