I read about a guy who commuted from the Quad Cities (Iowa/Illinois border on the Mississippi) to Chicago every day. With traffic, that's at least 3 hours each way, assuming nothing goes wrong, and an approximate 250 mile round trip, a good third of that hard stop-and-go traffic. IIRC the stupid **** had to leave the house at 5:00 a.m. and didn't get home until after 8:00 p.m. Every. Single. Day. Unimaginable.

It's not that bad, Beach Boy. nlm

And even snow covered grass and barren trees is better than the garage and the alley.

If you live near a big city you usually have to move pretty far out if you don't want your kids going to some crime infested dump of a school.

My commute is 7 minutes driving. The pain I endure...

Live a mile from work and drive there when hardly anyone else is on the road yet. I may live forever.

I have a 30 minute subway ride to work. In the morning, my wife joins me, so that makes it nice, and in the evening, I just read something. I actually find it pretty relaxing to have that buffer between work and arriving home, but I would be more stressed and upset if I had to drive every day.
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Yep, me too. My company recently has built a new addition to our faciliites that forced our parking lot to move a little further away from our offices (still on the same grounds). I joked to my wife that my commute to work just doubled.

I'm in a similar situation.

5 miles, takes me about 8-10 minutes. It's a nice, relaxed drive through town.

It isn't difficult to walk to work when the only distance you have to cover is from your living room to your desk chair in the adjoining room.

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I have about a 10 minute commute and it's an easy drive.

There is a married couple that commutes from Savannah, MO (our company is in Lenexa) which is about 80 miles each way. We also have people that live in Smithville, Kearney and Oak Grove. These are people that have worked for us for several years. I can't imagine commuting those distances 5-6 days per week, year after year.

About 7 blocks, takes me 2 minutes. would be a lot less time if there wasn't 5 stop signs in between..

i walk to work, and it is a significant factor in my job satisfaction and general well being...

I have a friend who lives about 12 miles south of Jeff City that commutes to Columbia every day. Probably about 40 miles each way. He claims that he doesn't mind it. Except back in '93 when the flood washed out a massive section of US 63 and he (and everybody else) had to drive down to the nearest open bridge across the Missouri, which added about 90 miles and over 2 hours each way to his trip for a couple of months until the flood waters receded and the road was rebuilt.

He minded that. :D

In really big cities yeah, but a city like KC it is not bad. On either side of the city, whether Kansas or Missouri you just drive about 10 minutes to be in the suburbs and another 10-15 to be in the newer ones.