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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: QOTD - Monday (commuting)
Metrobus to the Metro (then 3 stops)
Not too bad, it can take as little as 30 minutes, but most of the time it takes 40-50 minutes.
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Morning:
DH and i drop the kids off at DC - 5 minutes (it's three blocks away walking, but takes several minutes to drive only because we live on a one way street and have to go around several corners to get back to where DC is)
I drop DH off at the metro - 5 minutes
I drive to work - 5 minutes
Total "commute" time - 15 minutes
Afternoon:
I pick up the kids - 10 minutes
I drive home - 2 minutes
Total "commute" time - 12 minutes
sometimes, a traffic light or a squirrel gets in the way and one of my legs takes 6 minutes.
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my "commute"
I work from home, so my commute to my basement office is about 20 seconds, once I motivate to get down there.... though today's commute was a lot longer as I was greeted by a cricket that scared the crap out of me so I ran back upstairs and it took me ten minutes to get the courage to come back down.
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AM: Drive to Metro: 5 minutes
Pay for parking, walk from garage to Metro platform: 5 minutes
Metro: 50 minutes
Total: 1 hour
PM: Metro: 50 minutes
Metro platform to car: 5 minutes
Drive to DC to pick up C: 15 minutes
Drive home: 20 minutes
Total: 1.5 hours
Like my job, hate my commute.
Morning - 10-15 minutes to DS's daycare depending on lights then 10 minutes to my office. Usually 30 minutes total since I chat with his DCP.
Afternoon - 10 minute drive to pick up DS, 5 minutes of chatting, 15 minute drive to pick up DD, 10 minutes to get her off the playground, grab her papers, make one lst trip to see the hamster, high five the skeleton, and grab the cursed snacks they put by the door then 3 minutes home. All told, 45 minutes.
Monday's I drive to work - about 30 min from Burke to Old Town
Tuesday through Friday - my commute is 0 - I work from home those days.
However I do drive down from Burke to Braddock Metro every day (regardless of work) for my boot camp.
lol, yes, this gets added to my commute, too. as well as 5 minutes to get yelled at in the morning for being late (bfast is over at 8:45 and we never get there before 8:40)
I mostly work from home, so 2 min to drive Gwen to daycare, and usually back to my desk 5 min later.
When I have client meetings, dependin on the time of day, anywhere from an hour and a half to two and a half hours to get to their building. Thank god the drive is billable! When I was in the office, it took me 1.5 to 2 hours to get to work, and then about 1.5 to get home.
From garage to parking lot about 10 minutes - 12 if the traffic is bad.
I really have it quite good.
I alternate between biking and driving.
The ride in takes about 30 mintues (7 miles); the ride home takes about 40 minutes (7 miles); the drive in takes about 20 minutes (5 miles) and the drive home takes about 25 minutes (5 miles).
I drive to work. It takes 30-45 minutes depending on the traffic and the time I leave. This morning was 45 minutes.
My drive home takes 23-45 minutes depending on traffic. Yes I have timed it to 23 minutes. Tonight I'm picking LO up from daycare, so the drive to daycare takes a little longer than the drive home, and then it takes about 10-15 minutes to get home from daycare.
My commute (I drive):
Morning: 15 minutes
Afternoon: 25 minutes to daycare, 10 minutes to get M and all of his stuff, then 10 minutes back home (45 minutes total)
Ours is a little convoluted but not bad.
DH takes DS to daycare--drive, drop off, and return takes about 15 minutes.
Then we drive from our place to my building in SS, which takes 5-10 minutes depending on traffic.
I go up to my office, DH gets on the metro to Federal Triangle (another 1/2 hour or so).
On the way home, I usually go to DS's daycare (10 minute drive) and pick him up, then swing over to the Takoma metro (5 minutes away) to get DS and go home--about 30 minutes all told.
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Morning: drive (opposite direction than the office) to daycare, drop off, chat with provider, drive to office- anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes
Evening: drive home- 15 to 25 minutes.
easy peasy.
Morning: 5 minute drive to Metro (DH drops me off), 30-40 minutes to get to the platform, wait for a train, ride the train in, 5 min walk to work. Total= between 45-50 minutes.
Afternoon: One hour, from leaving my desk to arriving at daycare. 5 min walk to metro, approx 45 min on train, 5 min walk to car, 5 min drive to daycare. Driving back to my house takes about 10-15 min.
I am so amazed at how many have short commutes!
Morning: 40 minutes
Evening: averages 1 hour, but on a bad day it can take almost 2 hours.
My commute to work is 25 min door-to-door by car including a daycare drop-off. Coming home, it's about a 35 min commute door-to-door by car including daycare pick-up.
The good news is that there are rarely issues with traffic delays on my commute which is wonderful.
55 min. to an hour, depending on metro. I walk to get the shuttle bus in my complex (about a 4 minute walk), takes about 7 minutes to get to the metro, then factor in a little wait time on the platform and transferring, takes about 35 min. all together on the metro. My work is only a 2 min. walk once I get off.
I feel like my commute really isn't that long because I'm either reading, on my phone, or chatting with a neighbor the whole time.
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Morning - 1.15 with dropping kids off at day care
Evening - 50 min
I drive both ways.