Like the title says, share something about your daily commute :)
What do you like about it?
What do you hate about it?
What kind of advice or insights would you like to share with the rest?
Etc.
I live in the city center of a small Northern European city. I walk about 6-8 minutes to my job at a bakery. I like that I don’t pollute the air and I can get my body moving. I can get a feel for how busy the day will be based on what types and how many people are out and about, how the weather feels (if it is nice weather!) and such. I dislike when it rains AND is very windy. Or when the rain has frozen overnight and the cobblestones are extremely slippery.
If you move to a rainy city, invest in rain pants, rain resistant or waterproof shoes. and a high quality umbrella as part of your rain gear.
I live next to my university so I just walk which is amazing, it’s about 15minute long, the only part I don’t like is I have to go through a very dodgy neighborhood, other than that it’s great!
Work from home much of the time but when I do commute into the office I cycle. 24 km one way, takes me about an hour ten to an hour twenty, I love the exercise, and I enjoy riding, except when it rains. And it has rained a LOT this year, has also been very windy and quite cold for longer than usual. On really bad days I take the ferry which takes about the same amount of time and costs about 8 bucks one way. It is somewhat quicker to drive on the way in, but considerably slower coming home in the evening, and we have no parking at work except on early start shift, so I have only driven in 2-3 days this year. I have music when I cycle which is great too now I have a Bluetooth bike helmet
I like - exercise, the pleasure of riding, being out in nature (much of my ride is along seafront) - and saves money. And now it is cycle paths just about all the way its as safe or safer than driving
I dislike - takes a lot of time, over 2.5 hours a day, but that would be the case whichever way I do it. Unpredictable wild weather, unreliable weather forecasts, has been very cold some mornings
For cold weather get some riggers gloves - inexpensive but really warm!
It sucks donkey dick. About 1.5 hours in the morning to work and 1 hour home. A lot of the company works from home but I am on a 3 month contract and they want me there. I ONLY support remote users.
I get up when I want, except on Wednesdays when I get rudely awakened by the dustmen. I put my trousers on, have a cup of tea and I think about leaving me house. I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too, it gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing. And then I’m happy for the rest of the day, safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to it.
I commute by car, I drive 18 miles and it takes about 24 minutes to get to work. I like the highway I take to get there, it leads out west to outskirts of the city and I like how the landscape changes from urban to rural. My workplace is in a commercial park surrounded by mostly undeveloped land. The only part I hate is that there are no bus routes in the area, having a car is a requirement for the commute.
The best lengthy commuting situation I ever had was when I lived in the Phoenix, AZ area going to community college and also working full time. I’d do homework on the bus to school, then on the light rail from school to work and back again. Total commute time was 2hrs per day, but it felt productive and like it added to my day instead of being a burden and a waste.
What I hate about it: The often delays and when there’s slight weather change, my country freaks out and busses, trains and metros won’t work.
What I like about it: You can be passive. Got to get the bus at 7AM and feeling shit? Aight, get the bus and then close your eyes for the next upcoming hour. Feeling decent and want to read? No worries an hour drive from A to B. I got to get out at the end-station so that’s a bonus.
The weather is finally cooling off so walking mostly.
I like that the office is so close, and we work half from home so commute immaterial. College age kid usually takes my car so they are doing the high school drop off now, which means I must walk but it takes not longer than the whole home-school-work loop did.
When I walk, I don’t like not having a car with me, it’s hard to get to yoga class after work, and I liked having it in covered parking. When I drive, I hate the stoplight to get out of the driveway as it is literally half the commute!
I think my insight is colored by my own sensitivity to commuting. My ideal would be to live above the shop, basically. I don’t like being out in the edge of town and having to drive back and forth. If you have a job that can be done anywhere, for any company (IT, accounting, sales, etc.) then find a job near your home or a home near your job!
I ride 40mins, twice a day by ebike through mostly dirt/country roads. When weather is good, its great. Less so when rainy but still partially enjoyable. Only real concern is cars…and to be fair, deer. See them every morning, usually close up. Join me in the ebike revolution
Work is about 20 minutes away, which is a very short commute for the state I live in. I ride a motorcycle whenever it’s not raining really hard.
What I dislike is there is only one curvy section of road between home and work, and most of the time, I get stuck behind someone who is terrfified at the prospect of a road that isn’t perfectly straight, and they will trundle along at 25 mph for the entire section.
Thankfully, I have an interview today that could reduce my commute to the length of my house.
25 min by foot and then bus, pretty good. I prefer to not take the car which makes it a 10 min drive tops. I live on the mountains and the only downside is that I have to be very vigilant about bears when I leave home so I can’t blast music in my headphones.
Add comment