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Originally Posted by JManc
I commuted 2 and half to 3 hours (60-70 miles) round trip for my last job so not surprised for Houston. My wife current commutes around 2 hours round trip.
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I think thats the limit of comfortable. 1 hour each way. I did that for a while, 2 hours round trip (really due to traffic), but on a good day, much less. Now I have the ability to sometimes work from home, which is a massive perk.
You must of been hitting some traffic those days to be getting 3 hours for that distance or some back roads encompassed your commute.
For my neck of the woods, there's actually folks that drive from PA into Manhattan. IDK how the heck they do it, but that is a masochist commute. Or anybody lives in NJ, but works in Queens, and drives through the GWB, Cross Bronx, and through the Whitestone.
Those folks do exist, and its just bad. Not really the distance, because when the roads are good, most do 15-20 mph over (in NJ) but the traffic.
I know some folks complain about 30 minute commutes each way, but an hour or 60 minutes... its not too bad. I guess you just get use to it where it becomes comfortable.
Train wise, it can sometimes be bad. I know folks who take NJ Transit right up to Newark Penn for an hour or with express, like 45 minutes, and than take the PATH and than subway. It winds up being like 3+ hours wasted every day. That is a shit commute IMO. And if you miss the train, no fun.