I saw someone mention them here the other day). My commutes not bad now, but I miss that! That doesnt seem sustainable or realistic. I know Id absolutely shrivel up like a prune if I had to sit through that much of a commute. Exactly. My commute is about an hour, but can be an hour and a half if things arent going my way. Not that 3 hours as opposed to 4-5 is that much better. What gets me about your situation is that your commute is all driving if you were on a train or a subway you could at least multi-task with other activities. I had an hour long commute by car not long ago and I found that audiobooks made the journey so much more enjoyable. If you cant move, or change your hours, but you dont want to quit, you should find a way to make that time part of your life: language-learning course, books youve always wanted to read, a new broadway show each week that you learn by heart, etc. Some people do it, sure, but Id say around an hour to an hour and a half is the norm. I used to drive for almost 2hrs to get to Uni some days and it honestly wasn't that bad. I could make it shorter if I got the tube (metro) rather than the bus for part of it, but I prefer that as I normally get a seat on the bus and I can read rather than being wedged into someones armpit. Not as long as your commute, but still longer than what I am used to. I dont think a 2-hour commute is normal, per se, in LA, but the few friends of mine whove suffered hour-plus commutes moved closer or quit their jobs; its generally not a sustainable commute to go more than an hour, from what Ive seen. If you have pets, it costs them lost time to spend with you to get attention, be played with, be exercised. My 1.5-2 hour commute (each way) to drive a little over 10 miles was one of the reasons I had to leave that city. Isnt the only person to answer this you? It comes down to how you want to spend your time. Nature of the area, which outsiders dont understand, and there are no off times unless its the middle of the night. It would be one thing if they kept to themselves while riding the train (which is what most people do) but Ive seen them curse out other passengers for no reason. Also it is RIGHT at the juncture of two major freeways, and minutes from a bus/train depot. I work in NYC and live in a suburb about 35 miles away. Ive since moved to Minneapolis to be closer to work, and now my commute is an easy 20 minutes door to door. LA was not, and became a big city as autos became something that everybody could afford. In New York, my commute, door to door, from Soho to Bushwick was about 35-45 minutes, which included a 20-minute subway ride. Car pool to share the annoyance of the road. Commute between one and another at your peril. I need to have time to rest and a life, so Ive always applied for jobs that were a reasonable 30-minute commute away. By the time he left LA, he had only a 15-minute drive to work because hed arranged his life that way (so that his job and his apartment were close to each other). Somewhat related: I just did my taxes this week and I never noticed before that theres a relocation benefit if youve moved for work. If I am lucky, I am in traffic for 1.5 hours. I would never take a job with a 2 hour commute unless it was short term. Walk. I read about LA traffic before, but thought how bad can it REALLY be? Those are now considered commutable distances, even though those are far away. do I really need to send a thank-you note after being rejected for a job? And you probably dont want to be driving since the parking costs downtown are redonk. That is sadly very normal out here (and thats my current commute). OC or LB for me! Im Bay Area and peninsula to city (or peninsula to SJC) is easily 1o miles and 90 minutes. My stomach and heart misses it so much. I live in a tiny town so my commute is 5 minutes driving (allow 10 minutes door-to-door). It was horrid. It doesnt have to be. I love LB and do not want to leave. Ultimately I moved walking distance from work, have a 20 min walk and 5 min drive. We live close to several freeways so that helps his commute a lot. Theres a lot of data out there suggesting how bad commutes are for you in a lot of ways people dont typically think of. Uh, it totally depends on what your commute is the Bay Area too. But I guess its normal there. It was an aggravating way to start the day anyway. But oh man, it was like Saturday traffic in the suburb I live in. (Houston area btw). Im fortunate enough to have flex time and very understanding bosses. Some of those areas are now considered commutable, but theyre not considered to be part of the Bay Area proper. I previously lived in Shoreline, the town immediately north of Seattle. More time to read & crochet. Luckily I have since changed jobs and am down to 45 minutes each way by walking + BART, or 30 minutes by bike. It may be normal there, but it greatly informed my decision to move elsewhere after I graduated. Eventually, jobs like that started drying up and people have been moving out of IL since. I would text my friend/workers a picture of myself sitting on my couch at 5:20, while they were still at the subway stop. If its an option to exit, Id go for a longer way around just to keep from sitting it traffic for 2 hours. He drives, takes a bus to Dublin and takes BART from there. 2 hour commute twice a week . My commute is about 20-30 minutes, including a daycare dropoff. See what Im saying? IN the city would probably mean lower income, with a few exceptions. The longest commute Ive ever had was an hour each way, and I regret doing it even for the 2.5 years I did, because it really impacted my stress levels and quality of life. It was a very frustrating drive for more than one reason. I took public transit in LA too (I was 21-26 while I lived there; 30 now, and also look young), so I am 100% familiar with that commute (my friends lived in LB; I lived in Little Armenia). By car it still takes an average of 35-45 minutes. :(. I dont think Id personally cope well with much over half an hour if I had to drive but I probably have a bit of bias that comes from living in a small UK city where lots of things are well within walking or cycling distance, or public transport, so my expectations of what I find doable in terms of committing is affected by what Ive become used to. I would say 45-60 minutes seems to be the norm among my colleagues with a few outliers either way. All this to say, the options really are moving closer to your work, or finding a new job closer to where you live. Welcome to Southern California =). Thats where I hope OP and her boyfriend will end up in the long term, but knowing whats normal in a region and what actually isnt is a useful bit of information. After several years, that got to be too much and left me feeling like I had no lifeand my schedule was way less draconian than yours! Im surprised the US average is 26 minutes. It is easier going north and south than east and west here, and it is the traffic that is what is the stressful part. Ive been running after aliens in 4-inch heels and Mulder just does not appreciate that as much as he should. I have a 10-15 min drive to/from work. At my workplace, it goes from a 10-15 minute walk to up to 2 hour or more drive. I wouldnt have thought it would take that long but kudos to you for doing it! Former New Yorker who moved to LA. Very different than 50 minutes in traffic. Keep your fingers crossed for me please! When peaks are actually mesas, youre equally out of luck if your hours are 7 am to 4 pm, or 11 am to 7 pm. I think its a record. I also go to the gym near work every morning which is important to me and couldnt really do that. This is fabulous. to my office in Belmont, Mass. Are you getting paid enough for that? Doing that 2x or more a week was so frustrating. On average each way is an hour due to congestion or accidents on I-95. Coming home is a lot worse. You dont think you can do this much longer. Noooo. Ooooof. The time, the increased risk of harm, the wear and tear on your car and nerves. OP, Im older than you by 20, so let me share my thoughts on a long commute. 6.5 miles. We live 35 miles south of he district. My company is headquartered in Pasadena. The work hours and commute hours add up to 60 to 62.5 hours per week. For me its an issue of cost. In the US it'd probably be considered living close to work! Huh. Why?! I think were being a bit unkind to the boyfriend here. Its not common but, sadly, is becoming more common. Im job hunting currently and potential commutes is a huge concern. By that time, it would take about 1.5 hours or more to get to my work. 40 x 5 = 200, or over 3 hours. She doesnt visit the coast much I see, lol. Can't be sustainable imo but his are you fairing. But LA is just so sprawling, and laid out in such an anarchic fasion, I cant imagine a transit system that could resolve these issues (at least in our profit-driven society). Many people jump on the freeway to get home right after work and they get stuck in that congestion, but lots of people use the time to get drinks / go to a park / hang out with friends for an hour or two and then the freeway has cleared up significantly. Barring any snow, crazy rain, etc. Most of my colleagues travel at least an hour to an hour and a half, and mostly by mass transit. So yes, it is almost 2 hours to work and 2 hours back to home (friday afternoons are the worst!). When the commute impacts your quality of life its definitely time to think of solutions. Before I moved to LA, [Official Local Representatives] swore to me that the traffic was exaggerated and every place was accessible by public transport. Like many commuters, Neil Shapiro never quite knows what will happen on his . by bike: 20 minutes Id rather do cool stuff in my time off and take a pay cut. This entry was posted in Health & Wellbeing. Having more/less freeway time, more/less surface street time, time of day youre coming and going, whether youre traveling with or against the bulk of traffic in the areas youre in makes a HUGE difference. My office is six miles from my home. It costs you hours you could have spent with friends or getting to know people who would become friends. my team planned a wine-tasting while Im pregnant, no one is paying attention to my training, and more, coworker sent me his racy photography page, do I need to give my coworkers gifts, and more. should we give extra sick days to employees who cant work from home? I can also catch-up on personal things. My dad worked in Anaheim, 10, maybe 15 minute drive from home. Thankfully, the secretary graciously offered to begin picking me up at the nearby train station, cutting my commute by about 40-45 minutes. You can see them broken down by metro area here and by county here. How does things getting shittier in NYC make living in LA more tolerable? It was fine for a while, but that changed drastically when I had a baby and my schedule priorities changed. This thread has really brought home for me that nobody would live in this deranged city if it werent for the weather :D. And it contributes to the insane housing prices. Los Angeles here. Its best if you can avoid freeways too. I did undergrad outside of LA. You cant really apply a typical city center/white flight suburb model to LA. But then, Im a person who prioritizes short commutes even if it means paying a lot more for housing I recently moved to a more expensive area so that I could have a door-to-desk trip of 15 minutes. There was a guy who was caught living in the back of a box truck in the Google parking lot, because he couldnt find an apartment with a decent commute. I started shooting out my resume last week and immediately hooked a few fish, so Im a lot less worried now. Prosecutors say Fratta organized the murder-for . Thats not being special snowflake, thats being realistic about your limitations. Your life isnt long enough for that. I like my job a LOT less, but I have my sanity back. Really test it. I have been on the Metro many times, including the blue line going through Compton at 1am, and never felt unsafe. All my other commutes have been around 30 mins. Nuts are a healthier way to snack than some other poor choices I couldve made. Dont let him hold you back from reorganizing your life to make it more tolerable to you. Ahhhhh, Im so happy for you. Now I live 6 miles away from the office and have a 25-minute drive (on side streets only). But Ive done the 1.5+ hour commute for years at a time. Oops, I posted something else before I saw this. January 5th, 2022 show. I had a coworker who did Pasadena Playa Del Rey. Short commutes on the east coast are for people who can afford to live close to work. I just want to point out that normal doesnt mean anything if youre suffering so much. Me too. You now go 30 miles, 5x further. But its not close to Griffith Park at all. Public transportation is only a viable option if you work downtown. My commute at the previous job was 30 minutes or under (by car), but my work hours were at least 1 hour longer. I actually have no idea how far it is to most of the places I go regularly, just how long it takes to get there at various times of the day. I like everybody else who ever had to work at Alternative Site commuted. Is it right? I cant imagine tolerating 2+ hours each way unless I lived somewhere with such a limited job market that there was no other choice, and no possibility of moving. SF Bay Area here. Feb 7 2021 1 hr 1 min. She also needs a supportive boyfriend who will help her problem solve, rather than dismiss her misery with its normal, everyone deals with it, get over it.. It is a great read (at least, if youre a data nerd!) This was my issue a couple years ago commuting for grad school. Folks where I grew up (California) seem astonished that I live just 6 miles from downtown Boston. Unfortunately, if you want a shorter commute, you may have to move. I got an apartment with a roommate 3 miles away from my office after that. Would kill me. Do you have a backup plan in case you are just too tired to drive home safely some night? I would sincerely hate this commute. The question is whether its worth it for you. Ive decided that if I have to get a job any further away than about 30 mins, Im going to follow in his example and commute via motorcycle instead. If theres an accident or bad weather Im looking at two hours or more. Total nightmare, but they had to do it (for years) because they had a good job in an industry that would not have had something comparable with a really good commute. Agreed! I still live in SoCal, I love it here, and I dont think I could deal with the weather anywhere else, as I have a disability that makes even small amounts of humidity unbearable, and being even a little cold almost painful. Would commuting to DC from Fredericksburg be doable if Would having the CompTIA trifecta and two years desktop Would this large litter box with a grate be suitable for Would having the better debt to income and an extra 500 a What do your partners family do that they think is normal What was the dumbest rule your school thought up? I hear Atlanta is even worse. If I drive, it takes 45 minutes or more. For the right job, I once commuted 3 hours a day (round trip) and 150 miles a day. My commute would have been about 50 minutes, with the opportunity of a park-and-ride situation where half of that would have been on a train. I wouldnt take a 2+ hours commute either and have actually rejected or self selected out of jobs that would put me in that range (and I dont drive but exclusively use public transportation). FWIW, my cousin lives in LA, and she told me her commute from West Hollywood to Santa Monica was about 1 hour. If its just a paycheck.Id be looking elsewhere or to move. I think thats my cutoff. Whether you should accept this commute comes down to the extent to which you need to unwind from your work life and transition into your home life, and the extent to which you can do that in your car. I wouldt be home until 8:30-9. Not in LA, but I was held at gun point by a group of teens in Bushwick near a train stop walking home 2 years ago (if you google it a few reports will come up) and I still have slight PTSD from that. Where I live now? If youre not comfortable alone in the park-and-ride, coordinate with boyfriend for drop-off and/or pick-up. The traffic was two red stoplights. Try carpool with coworkers that live in or near Orange County. Those trips are close to an hour even late at night because its not all highway. Not really anything to add, but the only time I have ever had to pull over and cry because of driving, was on an LA freeway. Were in Texas, but right now my partners commute by transit is 2 hours each way so I take him in the mornings, which makes the commute for him 30 minutes but easily 70-90 minutes for me round trip, plus my own 10 minute commute to work. Due to the fragmented nature of public transit in the Bay Area, and the fact that Caltrain runs only once an hour, and the last mile issue, public transit is not much better and indeed could be worse. That makes it more bearable. I second the comments about working LB, Signal Hill or Orange County. And Id complain about my commute from West Hollywood (On Palm @ Santa Monica Blvd) to Beverly Hills (Doheny @ Wilshire). If I for some reason arrive at the park and ride after 8am, it can take forever to find a place to park and that will increase my commute. For me, that makes the commute worth it for now. Also, are you able to use surface streets rather than freeways for your commute? Ive been fortunate in seeking work close to public transit. I know that I absolutely could not stand sit behind the wheel of my sporty little 2 seater, inching ever slowly in traffic. When I lived in LA, I made a point of living as close to work as possible, because I knew the commute times were terrible. I know other people whove done the same, and not all uber-rich techies or bankers, either. I live in LB too. Find a coffee shop or library, get shopping done, get a haircut, or take your coworkers out for drinks until later in the evening when everythings died down. Im a fan, since parking is now free, but if it were longer, Id be out. Yeah, I think I would hate it a bit less if it was a quiet, chill train ride. But 5 hours in the car AND an (at least) eight hour work day? I was in the same situation when I started my job, thankfully I can now work at home part of the time. I didnt love it, but it wasnt too bad since it wasnt a straight-up crawl unless there was an accident. A lot of my coworkers did the same. Yes! Id love to get behind audiobooks but I dont seem to read books which have audiobook versions (or at least, they didnt when I last looked)! My 12-mile commute takes an hour. Another 15-20 minutes by shuttle, with wait times in between all, obviously. It all depends on the roads. I lived in Orange County a couple of decades ago, and your commute sounds like then-current reality. Its being confirmed here by all the people that live in CA. I would keep in mind if the route takes you through rush hour traffic, if it does that normal 2 hour drive might become 3. That commute leaves very little time for anything else. My best friend had a 2-hour commute. The challenge is to find something that will be better for him but also public-transitable for me. You *could* get an electric car with the carpool lane sticker and take it when youre rising solo, but Im pretty sure those expire this year. I cant imagine wasting 2-3 additional hours of my day just getting to/from work. So its really just not a place for people who struggle with patience with that sort of thing. Now my commute is 25 minutes on one bus. Why would anyone live 30 miles away from work? Using surface streets cut the it down to about 35-40 minutes. Unfortunately there are none. My commute is 8 miles. Nope nope nope. It always took at least 45-60 minutes. 30s, 53, female here. I know its somewhat stupid but yeah. Ouch, that sounds grim. I have a life, I actually see my kids, and small houses are way easier to clean. ), I can move back. That area is home to Highway 401, the busiest stretch of highway in North America and one of the busiest and widest in the world. Yeah, in California it is becoming moreso. LA traffic is the worst. I feel like thats a pretty massive misconception. I do NE Glendale to Pasadena (which is counter to the majority of traffic) and its 10-20 minutes. I put >30,000 miles on it in those first two years. But that same commute on Friday afternoon will take two hours. I would be so thrilled if public transit was ever an option! Every. If I lived in a more metropolitan area I wouldnt mind a 1-2 hour commute on mass transit because there would be less stress (not navigating traffic) and I could feasibly check work emails or do anything else on my phone. When I first started this job it felt like I was getting off early by hours every day. He commuted from Chester County to Manhattan by train. Hopefully you find something new soon! Hes not wrong though. If I couldnt stand it Id sometimes pull into the metered lots at the cliffs of HB and go for a walk on the beach or a swim. https://urbanize.la/post/metro-considers-temporary-shutdown-and-rebuild-blue-line. To answer your overall question, you can be successful with strength training 2x/wk, but it will come down to how structured your programming is in terms of volume, repetition, intensity, and progressive overload. I currently live and work in LB and on a good day, its 7 minutes from door to door. I think it is very hard to understand LA geography without spending some time driving there (and you can spend decades there without seeing or interacting with 2/3 of it, depending on the corridors you frequent). No, Im sure the drive time for that distance is completely normal. I took it once: it was a two-hour train ride from end to end. I hope that will be the case for you too. Being able to be home at 5:30 and have dinner and a life after work is worth so much more than money to me. Ive had that experience a few times where Ill go to Los Angeles or through San Bernardino and catch the traffic at EXACTLY the wrong time. No thanks! DC has a total population of like 600,000 people, but huge numbers commute in from MD and VA every day for work. When hes gone on the train/tube it took him 2.5 hours. Even same side of town can be 2 hours if it rains! And I think thats totally fair! He missed the birth of our baby. But Ive done the 90-minute standing each way commute too. Splurge on Audible, or ad-free Spotify. If you want to live somewhere affordable and work in the city, youre going to have to commute 1 to 2 hours away. On weekends its only $10.00 for a metrolink day pass that gets me all the way there and back on metrolink trains and also the metro in Los Angeles. But Im absolutely gobsmacked to see 26 minutesthats far outside the norm for anyone Ive ever even been friends with in the US. Like the OP, Im a former New Yorker, and my 45-minute subway or bus commute felt like nothing because I didnt have to be so engaged. I lived in hollywood, worked in Brentwood. If the bus is right there, it is a little quicker. Right now, I work from home, but the longest commute I can reasonably handle is 30 minutes. This is so spot on. 3 Strategies for Surviving a Long Commute. I get up at 4:30 am and go to the gym (40 min ride theres ALWAYS traffic but its not as bad that early). Id change jobs to avoid moresitting in traffic slays my zen. On a snow day when schools were closed, i was looking at 2.5-3 hrs. That's 2 hours on the bus, 9 hours on Amtrak's Sunset Limited. (Thats good luck! in Theatre-ese), I commuted from western NJ to NYC for a year, and it took 2+ hours each way. Also consider LA County healthcare jobs closer to where you live Russian is considered a threshold language in the county, so there is a requirement to make written materials and services accessible to Russian-primary or Russian-only residents. Total travel time: 12 hours. So we had three phones going all with different routes. I imagined conversations like, Two hours, isnt that crazy! The city was definitely designed with cars in mind and commuting by bike would be a nightmare. I have a 2 hour commute into Boston; I live in Providence. Though, he did have a motorcycle, which made the commute a lot less worse. Exactly. Anytime train tickets An Anytime train ticket is a flexible ticket that allows you to travel at any time of the day. Right, its not just the time, its the type of time. One hour for me, but that includes dropping off a kid at school. A long commute is possible, of course, as your father says, but the difference between commuting to school and commuting to work is that when you get home, you still have to study, unlike you're father. Where I live its pretty normal, because while we actually have one of the best traffic systems in North America, a majority of work is in the major city, and the bulk of the workforce lives in an entirely different city, because rent prices are so messed up here (Our 1+ den apartment is $1700/month in the CHEAPER city). When I was really tired, even audiobooks and nuts couldnt keep me awake. Total game changer to get that much time of your life back even though my rent cost was about $400/month more. Im so sorry, OP. Google maps will give you a range for your route at different times of the day. Normal is not the same as reasonable. Anything can become normal if enough people do it, like spending 90% of your waking, non-work hours sitting in a shiny metal box stuck on a road, but that doesnt mean its a reasonable thing to accept. Right now my commute is 10 minutes, 15 minutes if there is heavy traffic. I had a one hour commute (from a suburb to a rural area, through farmland, 55 mph the whole way, no trafficso, not terrible at all except for the time and the fact that I hate driving) and it was killing me. If he doesnt know any different, it wont seem that bad. I couldnt imagine driving that much. (I get a seat about 50% of the time.) My last job was 30 miles and a 45-minute commute on a good day and I worked 7:30 to 3:30. That movie is amazing on so many levels (not least of which is the open season on the LA Freeway scene), everyone should watch it. Im not a caffeine user, so I found that eating and drinking was the best way to keep myself awake on long drives. 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