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Wacky Wednesday Poll
1) How long is your commute? If you are currently working from home, how long were your prior commutes?
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit?
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home?
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit?
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home?
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Re: Wacky Wednesday Poll
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Drive alone.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? 45 minutes.
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Drive alone.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? 45 minutes. I think an hour is too big of a mental barrier to get over.
my read shelf:
2. Alone
3. 20 min max. I don't do traffic, and have passed up a few job offers because if the commute. I'd rather work closer to home for less money than add a long commute into my life.
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2015 Books Read 3 * 2014 Books Read: 151
2013 Books Read: 90 * 2012 Books Read: 125
2011 Books Read: 150 * 2010 Books Read: 117
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2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? I used to carpool, but now I drive alone.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? I'd probably go 45 minutes at the most. I actually like the alone time in the car - I decompress from work and listen to my audiobooks.
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? 99% of the time I drive alone, but the other 1% of the time I will drive in with my husband seeing as we work a block away from each other.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? If I never had to deal with bad weather, I would do an hour, but living in snow country I think even now my commute is too long.
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Drive alone, and I enjoy it.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? Probably an hour at the most.
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2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Public transit
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? Well, I really like where we are for location now so I'd prefer to reverse it and keep my house but find a job closer to home.
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Drive alone.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? My first job took me 35 minutes to get to. That's my max. I hate driving. I might be willing to have a longer commute if I could take the train but I did that for a while too and it wasn't great (other than lots of reading time!)
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1.) About 20 minutes, but I often work from home.
2.) Drive alone. Public transit in Delaware's lower 2 counties is severely lacking.
3.) Probably no more than an hour or so, preferably less.
15-20 min. It's the perfect commute. No traffic, and it gives me a chance to drink my coffee and collect my thoughts before I get bombarded with children at work.
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit?
Drive alone. I would actually HATE to carpool.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home?
About an hour. I've had a commute longer than that before and it was no fun, but it was manageable.
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? I drive alone.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? Maybe 45 minutes, but I am happy where I live now. If I could find the perfect job, that would be a different story.
my read shelf:
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? I drive alone. Public transit does not exist in my area.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? Not much longer than I am now.
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit?
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home?
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Commute with J.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? Up to an hour.
my read shelf:
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2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? I drove alone.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? I also live in snow country so that would play a role in that decision. No more than a regular 20-30min drive since that can become hours on a bad day and those physical hours mentally feel twice as long in the vehicle during bad weather.
30 minutes each way (15 if I drive or get a carpool ride)
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit?
I mostly take the bus. The drive is nothing, but I don't want to pay $200 a month to park (I work two blocks from the capitol- parking here is kind of crazy).
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home?
Probably 1 hour max. I've done 45 minutes. I did not enjoy it, but it was doable.
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my read shelf:
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit?
I drive alone now. I used to carpool with one of my close friends/coworkers, but after A was born and I started doing the morning drop-off, it meant I would have had to leave way too early. I miss carpooling
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home?
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Drive alone and I love it.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? Up to an hour.
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Drive alone. Even if I had a need to carpool, I probably wouldn't. The whole idea gives me anxiety.
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? 1 hour
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Drive alone. I drive too much as part of my job and my schedule is different every day so it wouldn't make sense to carpool (which stinks because there is a coworker who lives around the corner from me)
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? under an hour
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Drive alone. No transit here
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? Like other posters have said, that hour is a mental threshold of pain for me. I think I could do transit for a longer time as long as I had a seat and a book and I didn't have to wait for ages for a train to arrive (ahem, Atlanta, I'm looking at you and your horrid MARTA schedule!). I used to MARTA when I lived down there and it was fine as long as it was a regular day and things were functioning properly, but if it was a weekend/holiday/some kind of malfunction (which was often) it took too damn long.
2) Do you/did you drive alone, carpool, or take public transit? Drive alone (well sort of, I drive DD to daycare and then go to work from there)
3) How long of a commute would you be willing to have in order to live in your dream location/home? No commute. I commuted years ago and hated it and DH has a 30 minute commute now and he hates it.
my read shelf:
2) Alone...audiobooks are amazing
3) That would really depend on the area...probably 30 min, although depending on the situation I could see us going up to 45