Curosity: How much time do you spend in traffic a week.

[Necromancer]

Drinking is nice after a long ride home.

After?  Sparky ain't got no time to wait.

[geise]

I voted 2-4 cause I forgot and was thinking daily.  I spend 2 hours a damn day in traffic.  So, 10 a work week.  Fun.

EDIT:  That is commute time.  There isn't much sitting in dead stop traffic, since I leave for work at 4:30 a.m.  Coming home I never hit dead stop traffic unless there's an accident.

[SignOfZeta]

It takes me 15 minutes to get to work. On the way home there is no traffic so it takes me 10. Weekends are a wild card since I might go nowhere, I might drive to the racetrack 70 miles away.

So, just going to work and back, about 2 hours a week but only 25 min of that can be blamed on congestion. The rest is just driving.

If I had to drive 60-90 minutes each way like some people I...I just wouldn't do that. I'd either get another job or another house. That's just bullshit. I have a life to live here.

[_joshuaTurbo]

There are only two seasons in Wisconsin - Winter and Construction.

Hour to work from downtown to Racine each way. Good thing I like my job.

I'm about 17 miles from work and I live on a side road that quickly connects to a hwy which pretty much takes me to work.  About 20 mins twice a day, but I've rarely had to sit in traffic.  I'm Piffed if I hit 2 red lights during my drives to or from work. 

About three and a half hours a week on the road depending if I go for drives to other places.

[roflmao]

Also to keep this in the ballpark so to speak: Which Video Game Char. do you think has the worst commute into work?

Not Keith Courage.  That lucky bastard gets to ride a freaking RAINBOW to work every day.

[turboswimbz]

Also to keep this in the ballpark so to speak: Which Video Game Char. do you think has the worst commute into work?

Not Keith Courage.  That lucky bastard gets to ride a freaking RAINBOW to work every day.

STATUS: This made me happy

[jeffhlewis]

If I had to drive 60-90 minutes each way like some people I...I just wouldn't do that. I'd either get another job or another house. That's just bullshit. I have a life to live here.

I work for a big company that decided 120 years ago to set up shop in a craphole; it's worth the drive to not live in said craphole

[esteban]

QUESTION: Does anyone here take mass transit to work? The train from NJ to NYC is far from perfect, but I can do whatever I want during my commute (typical day: drink coffee whilst reading/listening to music/podcasts/writing/napping/eating flan).

If I had to drive 60-90 minutes each way like some people I...I just wouldn't do that. I'd either get another job or another house. That's just bullshit. I have a life to live here.

I work for a big company that decided 120 years ago to set up shop in a craphole; it's worth the drive to not live in said craphole

Quite true

[munchiaz]

I can get to work in around 5-8 minutes. Currently i am only part time, so only have to drive to work 4 days a week. Not much time at all. I also drive to a friends house every Monday for board game night. Thursdays for KOF 13 session, Saturdays  more fighting games and doing stuff with the g/f. So i would have to say around 1-2 hours.

[Sparky]

If I had to drive 60-90 minutes each way like some people I...I just wouldn't do that. I'd either get another job or another house. That's just bullshit. I have a life to live here.

If your living in a city close to work thats not much of a life for me, My waste of life on driving is made up in full for the house, land and environment my family and I live in .

[Flare65]

I work in field service as a tech so I'm always on the road.  Sometimes it takes me six hours to get to the site I'm working at.  Every day is usually a new customer's site.  I'm in the western burbs of Chicago and I cover all of Northern Illinois down to Champaign, all of Wisconsin, parts of Minnesota and occasionally a drive into Indiana.  I've put over 35K on a brand new company car in over a year.  I have not been with this company three years yet, but I'm already on my second company car.

[SignOfZeta]

If I had to drive 60-90 minutes each way like some people I...I just wouldn't do that. I'd either get another job or another house. That's just bullshit. I have a life to live here.

If your living in a city close to work thats not much of a life for me, My waste of life on driving is made up in full for the house, land and environment my family and I live in .

I just said it takes me 15 minutes to drive to work. I obviously don't live in Chicago or Oakland. There is no such thing as a 15 minute drive in a real city, to matter how short the distance.

I live in Ann Arbor. Its f*cking beautiful. I've got raccoons and deer running through my 2 acres of property where I have two dozen century-old trees, yet my entire commute is paved and I don't exceed 45 mph at any point.

If you want to do something good for your family, consider spending more time with them and less in the car. Between work and sleep most people have already lost 2/3 of an average week day not including commutes and lunch hours. And how many hours a week do you have to work to pay for the fuel and maintenance on the car?

Buy this car to drive to work
Drive to work to pay for this car
Buy this car to drive to work
Drive to work to pay for this car
Buy this car to drive to work
Drive to work to pay for this car

There just isn't that much time to spare, not in my life anyway.

I've had job offers far from home, I've looked at living spaces far from work. I live where I do and work where I do, not by accident, but because I made it a priority to not waste 10 hours a week stuck in traffic. A lot of people look for the biggest house for the least money and then need the best paying job they can find to pay it off, which is of course nowhere near the house. They think they're getting ahead, but in the end they pay the hidden cost of being stuck by themselves in a car far too long, adding to their already out of control stress levels and producing assloads of CO2.

[vestcoat]

Traffic in Minneapolis is getting worse as white flight reverses and the city fills up with condos and luxury rentals. I live in the city and driving across town to work consumes maybe one hour of my week. Fortunately, audio-engineer hours rarely put me in rush hour and I only have to physically go to work 2-3 days a week.

Living close to work is like giving yourself a raise.

[turboswimbz]

I can get to work in around 5-8 minutes. Currently i am only part time, so only have to drive to work 4 days a week. Not much time at all. I also drive to a friends house every Monday for board game night. Thursdays for KOF 13 session, Saturdays  more fighting games and doing stuff with the g/f. So i would have to say around 1-2 hours.

Sounds like a good trade off in driving to me
also happy 1000th post status

[Sparky]

If I had to drive 60-90 minutes each way like some people I...I just wouldn't do that. I'd either get another job or another house. That's just bullshit. I have a life to live here.

If your living in a city close to work thats not much of a life for me, My waste of life on driving is made up in full for the house, land and environment my family and I live in .

I just said it takes me 15 minutes to drive to work. I obviously don't live in Chicago or Oakland. There is no such thing as a 15 minute drive in a real city, to matter how short the distance.

I live in Ann Arbor. Its f*cking beautiful. I've got raccoons and deer running through my 2 acres of property where I have two dozen century-old trees, yet my entire commute is paved and I don't exceed 45 mph at any point.

If you want to do something good for your family, consider spending more time with them and less in the car. Between work and sleep most people have already lost 2/3 of an average week day not including commutes and lunch hours. And how many hours a week do you have to work to pay for the fuel and maintenance on the car?

Buy this car to drive to work
Drive to work to pay for this car
Buy this car to drive to work
Drive to work to pay for this car
Buy this car to drive to work
Drive to work to pay for this car

There just isn't that much time to spare, not in my life anyway.

I've had job offers far from home, I've looked at living spaces far from work. I live where I do and work where I do, not by accident, but because I made it a priority to not waste 10 hours a week stuck in traffic. A lot of people look for the biggest house for the least money and then need the best paying job they can find to pay it off, which is of course nowhere near the house. They think they're getting ahead, but in the end they pay the hidden cost of being stuck by themselves in a car far too long, adding to their already out of control stress levels and producing assloads of CO2.

Hahaha, you think you got all the answers don't ya?  Must be nice to be 15 mins away from a piece of paradise like that, do you own it, rent or live with your parents? As something like that close to my work would cost $500,000 to a mill.

I love my job but its stuck in the most expensive area around, I make a great salary but its just one income coming in so Instead of living in a crowded subdivision I find a small town outside the city that offers a lot and I have my cottage and house all in one

Ya I could move closer and maybe shave 20mins off my drive but the urban sprawl is even getting close to me.
To each there own zeta but just don't tell what's right for me, everyone situation is different.