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    I guess it's possible with a big commute:

    115 miles one way to work = 230 a day x 5 days a week x 52 weeks = 60,000 a year
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3fingersalute View Post
    I guess it's possible with a big commute:

    115 miles one way to work = 230 a day x 5 days a week x 52 weeks = 60,000 a year
    In Austin, I worked with a guy who drove 76 miles each way on his LLano/Austin commute, and I worked in Alexandria, Va. with a couple of folks who lived in Baltimore and did around 50-55 miles each way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by slgrieb View Post
    In Austin, I worked with a guy who drove 76 miles each way on his LLano/Austin commute, and I worked in Alexandria, Va. with a couple of folks who lived in Baltimore and did around 50-55 miles each way.
    I commuted 60 miles one way for school to Harrisburg, PA, a lot of people from my area do it daily for work. I worked once with a guy who drove about 120 miles one way each day for work, but he negotiated a company van and gas card to do it with so all he lost was over 4 hours in the car each day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3fingersalute View Post
    I commuted 60 miles one way for school to Harrisburg, PA, a lot of people from my area do it daily for work. I worked once with a guy who drove about 120 miles one way each day for work, but he negotiated a company van and gas card to do it with so all he lost was over 4 hours in the car each day.
    I could never do a 2 hour commute. I think I'd kill myself. I guess audiobooks or whatever would help and 2 hours of non traffic commute would be easier than 2 hours of rush hour traffic. I can't even imagine it honestly. I have a 12 minute commute from my door to my desk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 74AD View Post
    I could never do a 2 hour commute. I think I'd kill myself. I guess audiobooks or whatever would help and 2 hours of non traffic commute would be easier than 2 hours of rush hour traffic. I can't even imagine it honestly. I have a 12 minute commute from my door to my desk.
    On a Friday in Alexandria, it could take better than 2 hours to clear the Woodrow Wilson bridge for any of our managers living in Maryland. Fortunately, we had a bar about 2 minutes from the plant, so we had a nice place to drink beer and discuss work issues (just joking)while waiting for the traffic to thin out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 74AD View Post
    I could never do a 2 hour commute. I think I'd kill myself. I guess audiobooks or whatever would help and 2 hours of non traffic commute would be easier than 2 hours of rush hour traffic. I can't even imagine it honestly. I have a 12 minute commute from my door to my desk.
    Yeah, I'm with you. My last job was a 5 minute commute from my house, I even walked it a few times here and there. Now I have about a 40 minute drive and it's as much as I'd ever want to do.
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    10 steps from my bed to my office. It's exhausting really.

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    45 minutes in the morning, at least an hour after work

    Office is in the process of moving, going to be 10 more miles, but I am hoping for a quicker actual commute as it is going out of town rather into the belly of the beast

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    Gas jumps $.40 down here

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cleetus View Post
    Gas jumps $.40 down here
    I saw 2.09 this weekend which is about .40 more than its lowest. I wonder where it will top out?
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