It was mostly a reverse commute (opposite way down the highway during rush hour) so once I got to the highway it was speedy. Plus, youve probably noticed by now that LA drivers are horrible ignoring red lights, racing up shoulders, etc. I have plenty of colleagues who do commute by car, and I literally have no idea how they have enough energy to put themselves through that daily. He isnt demanding that she conform to that and if she doesnt change her mind, well then she must be a crazy person. I like my job a LOT less, but I have my sanity back. My car is okay, not that great. 2-hour commutes are something we are used to and weve even experienced what we call carmageddon; wherein rush hour is like a huge parking lot and it took 4 friggin hours to get home (thats right! But yeah, 30 miles in LA is a lot and will be at least an hour as youve found. 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. Alas, Los Angeles is like this nowadays. Only you'll know but it really doesn't seem that bad. This is how I discovered audiobooks. Everyone highway has traffic other cars being on the road doesnt mean everyone has to drive slowly. Inevitable 10-15 minute unexplained stop at Van Ness that seems to happen no matter what time (otherwise Id say its explained by directing train traffic). I did that for 6 weeks and It felt like 2 years. He drives, takes a bus to Dublin and takes BART from there. I had a 90-minute-each-way commute once (public transportation had to take two trains and a bus. yep, same with here in the Bay area. Its 4 5 miles between my house and the T station (depends on the route). You cant really apply a typical city center/white flight suburb model to LA. Former Angeleno here: This is not normal! She will never be able to afford to buy, and it looks as if Im now permanently out of King County. My partner has to go nearly 3 times farther than me but his commute is shorter, because he goes reverse traffic. I grew up in the Inland Empire and for a while commuted to my job in South LA, ~40 miles. Thats why the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? In bed by 9-10PM Just be sure to do a lot of research before accepting a new job. By the time I get home, half the evening is gone and my cat is hungry and I dont feel like doing anything. In Los Angeles if you cant bear a long commute you need a job that is very close to where you live and/or is the opposite direction than traffic. All on Audible and all great! Ultimately I moved walking distance from work, have a 20 min walk and 5 min drive. Totally agree. This was something I did when I bought my place in CA. MUNI IS THE WORST. Yeah that is the thing for me. Riding the train during commuting hours seems much different than late at night or on the weekend. The answer to that question is no. I live in Silicon Valley. Those hours add up, and a few extra dollars isnt always worth a longer commute. Im sorry you dont have that. Currently my commute is about an hour each way, in ideal conditions. Uh, it totally depends on what your commute is the Bay Area too. Maybe you can start taking a picnic dinner to a park with him. Theyre actually radio shows, but sold on audiobooks on Amazon, so Id recommend Cabin Pressure and John Finnemores Souvenir Programme. DH and I also get dinner every night together, Im able to workout more and so is DH (since Im home earlier and can keep Tiny Human alive so he can go to the gym). Theres a lot of data out there suggesting how bad commutes are for you in a lot of ways people dont typically think of. If you feel like youre competing with all the other cars on the road, youre going to be in a stressed mindset thats not contributing to safe driving or a happy day. Perhaps you should take your own advice about making unwarranted assumptions? Unsustainable is a great word, Countess. Palo Alto to Berkeley during off-hours takes about 45 minutes. Its one of the main reasons I left LA. I agree w/ Alison whether its normal or not has no bearing on whether it works for *you*. If Id had to drive for 2.5 hours each way, Id be a very sad puppy. I remember talking to the kids at the company (and they were kids) who were *horrified* at the idea of living so far outside the city, I was like babies it will take me less time than it does now *and* I wont be spending 1/2 my salary on a tiny apartment. The only thing that would slow me down was if the drawbridge was up (Seriously, a drawbridge on a major freeway). That said, the days where the commute gets over 1 hour are tough, and I definitely couldnt do that twice a day. Its just about choosing jobs and housing such that you dont have to go too far in the wrong direction. It can be done! And once every few months several hours. The 20 minute subway ride OP describes from Bushwick to Soho is only about 6-7 miles. This seems expensive and wasteful to me, both in terms of money and life. Walking to work is the best. So Cal native yup, 2 hours can be totally normal. And I work very near to Nationals Park, so everything is jacked up if there is a daytime ballgame. If theres an accident or bad weather Im looking at two hours or more. We looked at some houses that would make my commute 45-60 minutes and keep my husbands average about the same or a little longer, and although we really liked them, we had to pass. I commute a total of 4 hours a day to London from my home town. My commute is about an hour, but can be an hour and a half if things arent going my way. Im in D.C. and two hours is long, but definitely not weird here. [crosses fingers]. I am 100% surprised there were no bite marks in my steering wheel by the end of it. I drove through 6 school zones. I grew up in CoCoCounty (fam is still there), and so much of the County was working class that I never really thought of it as unaffordable until the last 10-15 years or so. My times are similar maybe a little shorter in the PM coming from near the 101/92 interchange. However, driving is typically stress free regardless of traffic or not. Whats a non aggressive way to respond to someone who What UK press shaming of a person do you think was What quietly went away without anyone noticing? Is moving an option? If he doesnt know any different, it wont seem that bad. (I get a seat about 50% of the time.) While I was doing this, there were some people from National Office (DC area), whose commutes were up to 2 1/2 hours (ugh! But also, screw normal. Most people who work in Burbank cant afford to live here anymore houses in my neighborhood start at over $800k for 1100 square feet. Is it 1 hr, 15 mins? A few of my senior bankers have 90-minute one-way commutes, and I just don't understand why people go through that. ^^This! I do a 6 hour round commute once or twice a week. I hope you change out of your pajamas first! Sitting in traffic makes me miserable person to be around rest of the day. We just moved to Atlanta a year ago, and when searching for a place to live, every time I found a possibility I plugged it into Google directions and set it to find the route from there to my and my partners workplaces at the times wed be driving. My commute is an hour, but changing etc adds on 30 minutes (before/after). I did the same thing when I was house hunting since I was pretty committed to the job. Normal can die in a fire. I wouldnt do it. Study groups may be at odd hours of the day as well. Early morning starts and late finishes, due to excessive travel, would've been so draining. The joke among stats nerds around here is that the problem isnt the mean, its the standard deviation. My Monthly Commute Mileage: 660.00 miles Gallons of Fuel: 26.40 gallons Spent on Fuel: $ 52.54 Spent on Vehicle Maintenance: $ 48.18 Spent on Tires: $ 0.00 My Cost of Commuting: $600.72 / month ($7,208.64 / year) If you are a human seeing this field, please leave it empty. Reearch isnt reality. And its been getting progressively worse. Also, Metro is beefing up security on lines and I would always see sherriffs on board checking fares. For me, my 52 minute commute was extended to 1 hour 15 minutes anytime school was in session. Two hours was totally normal for the area I grew up in, if you commuted into the city from the suburbs. It just doesnt make sense for me to move closer to LA at all. Just because it is normal doesnt mean its sane. I do change out of pajamas! My point count your blessings everytime you feel that your commute of 1 hour took too long. Its kind of improved my attitude toward it on most daysbut I still daydream of the days when Ill be able to kick back with a movie while my self-driving car does all the work :). Its really hard not to see the possibilities lurking around every corner. I ignored that rule in ex job and spent four years regretting it when I had a 90 minute commute each way that occasionally stretched to 2 hours (thank you and goodnight South Western railway). Now we can afford to save for a house and have space to start a family. severe financial hardship) or I could work during the commute and cut down time at the office. Everyone has to consider how much more theyre willing to spend to save time getting to work (or how much of a pay cut theyre willing to take to get a job closer to home). I get up at 4 a.m., go to the gym to beat traffic, get home at 7:30-8 p.m. and am in bed by 9 so I dont fall asleep at the wheel. If other people want to live like that, thats fine, but I did not. I left LA in 1998, and when I visited a few years later, was horrified to discover that rush hour traffic was still going strong at 10pm. This is explains why the traffic that makes us crazy here in Texas is seen as a breeze to all of the people moving here from California. Come on. I worked all week and basically slept all weekend because I was so exhausted. The comment lacks compassion but I dont see how its a big red flag. 30 miles of doom and gloom of 90 to Aurora, no good. Ill never go back to the stress of traffic jam commuting. Back then, it was a Big Deal for us to go to the Big City for shopping, dining, etc. So theres even MORE traffic trying to get there at 8 AM from all the far flung sprawling areas. Now it take 15-25 minutes depending on how long the lines are at the main gate. If youre crawling on a freeway, have you considered surface streets? I bet you ten bucks they live in the valley, work on the other side of the mountains, and have to take the 405. It is GLORIOUS. I was thinking it would be easier if she did it near work but shes already doing that. If you spend 4 hours commuting five days a week, it will wear on you eventually. But as another lifelong Bay Arean, I agree that 2-hour commutes in the central Bay Area are not common. Taking the Metro is consistently 90 minutes, except for that time last week when there was smoke in the tunnel and it took 3 hours. Nine months in and its still glorious. I think its a record. *Except for the time I was without a vehicle for awhile and that 20 minute commute turned into an hour and a half bus ride. Sorry! There are only a handful of cities where you can really rely on public transportation. I walk to work now (20 min! Good luck, and I feel your pain! Vallejo has always been part of the Bay Area. Music is a different matter, because I wont lose the plot if my mind drifts away for a bit. for about a year i commuted an hour to work and i did get used to it but i wouldnt choose to go back to doing that. Especially if you want to leave by 5:30am in order to beat the traffic. Moving closer to his job would mean being farther away from mine. Instead were now spending billions of dollars trying to get our transit system caught up. I dont think it necessarily was, though. Its a ~10 mile commute that took me 45 minutes each way on a good day. He commuted from Chester County to Manhattan by train. Im wondering if the next step in the tiny house craze is to have people in places like this live in an RV full-time? Am I crazy? LA traffic is just brutal. OMG. Once I figured that out, I started walking the 6 miles to work in San Francisco. Many years ago we moved away from Orange Country and traffic was one of the big reasons. haha). I live in the DC metro area so long commutes are just the reality of my existence. My 10.5 mile commute from Oakland to SF is faster than the 4 mile commute on Muni from my bfs place to my office. Yeah, I take 710 to 5 to 101. Now doing Reading-North Oxford and its 1.5-2 hours each way door to door. 30 miles is very far for LA commuters. Where I live a commute that takes an hour in a car at peak traffic takes about 20 minutes on a moped. And that was traveling cross-county (not south towards Atlanta). It works for me, for now. Me too. Get horror and comedy with My Favorite Murder! Biking isnt doable in every city unfortunately I live in Tampa and am 10 miles from work, which, depending on traffic, can take 20-50 minutes. Yes 30 miles is too far for a daily cycle commute. BUT when I first moved here I lived in West L.A. and worked in Seal Beach and yeah it was 1 1/2 ish I got used to it and did audio books, called family liked my Grandma, tried to carpool when I could, etc. And frankly, New Yorkers may believe theyre more stand-offish, but youre more likely to be entirely ignored by the other passengers in CA than in NY. I am in the Midwest. Going there was pretty much OK since it was later in the morning. ugh. But I was able to deal because I worked 6-7 hours a day, got a ride home (because there was literally no combination of buses that I could get home on at that hour), and took books, mending, and other busywork with me so I would be occupied on the bus ride. 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. Welcome! Find a way to make the time feel better. So yes, it is almost 2 hours to work and 2 hours back to home (friday afternoons are the worst!). Try early morning (commute), lunch (work gaps) and late evening (couch scrolling) as these are typically when TikTok users use their phones. Our company used to be joined to an office in San Fran and some people there commuted AT LEAST 2 hours to work and back each day. I decided to move to a location thats 20 minutes by bus from work. Yeah, I already made up my mind Im leaving. I knew it was bad, but to witness it, wow. For many folks this probably would not work, but it seems to the best fit for his family. Ive lived in Queens and Manhattan and have never had a commute less than one hour. I love reading, but I have a really difficult time keeping my focused on audiobooks or podcasts or any kind of talking that I need to pay close attention to, and if Im driving I cant follow it at all. Los Angeles is not only not really bike friendly, in fact it is quite a bit bike hostile. What genres do you read? It would have to be a pretty awesome job to be worth spending 4 hours daily commuting. OC is kinda huge, and the traffic and transit availability varies enormously. An excellent point! FASCINATING. It was a contract job so it didnt make sense to move) and I hated every second of it. federal, and local laws. Good luck! The difference was really that my commute usually had just a quick moment of traffic right by my office (government office surrounded by lots of other government offices, with thousands of people all leaving at the same time), and his was about 20 miles closer, but stop and go the whole way! Signed, If I hit traffic at the wrong time, it could take me 1.5-2 hrs to make what was normally a 25-30 minute drive. My commute to work is about 9 miles and usually takes about 40-50 minutes, but can easily be over an hour on a bad day. I recently moved to Magnolia, about 6 miles to my office. I absolutely love the best of both worlds feel it gives me. The only time Ive ever gotten stuck in traffic in my commute is when theres a wreck, and everyone decides to exit in one lump. I am lucky that I live and work quite near highway entrances/exits, and I work 7-3 (and usually get to work by 6:30). Thats ridiculous, seriously thats 20 hours a week driving. OP, Im older than you by 20, so let me share my thoughts on a long commute. Since hes from a smaller town, he never really got used to commuting and hates it passionately. When I left, even though there were issues I had with burnout, the position, etc., citing the commute as my primary reason smoothed things over a lot. My biggest concern with many miles is what happens when your car is in the shop. If you want a shorter commute, you have to move closer to transit or to where the traffic patterns are more favorable. So your commute really comes down to strategic choices about where you live (and Id you can afford it), traffic patterns, and where you work. We practice high quality, compassionate medicine with an emphasis on client education and . I am NOT a commuter and the absolute max for me would be half hour. I commute 2 hours door to door in NYC, via LIRR. Not to sound melodramatic, but Once you find something closer to home, you will gain so many hours back youll wonder what to do with yourself. I have other friends that live/travel on public transport in LA who get harassed by creeps, the homeless, & mentally ill people on almost a daily basis. Yeah, I think this is the disconnect for me in theory, you could pack in the cars all driving 1 foot apart at 60 mph just fine and everyone would get there in the same time as if they were alone on the road, but humans will never drive like that. At least 2-3 times per week. No need to do it all by one method. I live in the Atlanta suburbs. DC has a total population of like 600,000 people, but huge numbers commute in from MD and VA every day for work. Maybe in the Friday Open Thread? Someone else commuted down from Alameda (again, along the H8-80, as she called it). On the road by 6AM I spend my time on the train reading or listening to podcasts/audiobooks while poking at Facebook or whatever. I like the time to myself, though, and I have flexibility to telework as needed. It would be one thing if you lived in Redondo or Fullerton, as there are side streets to get you there if the freeway is f*cked, but 405 just isnt worth it if youre not making a killing at your job. Here in the SF bay area, having a commute less than an hour is good, because all of the best paying jobs are in San Francisco, but its way too expensive to live there. It takes 10 plus minutes to get off my hill which is a mile on some days. Today, its more like 2.5. For my next job I am trying very hard to not have to cross the river. In first period, kids were talking Man, did you see that flat squirrel near the main entrance? Yeah, it was SO FLAT! Now I drive to work and it should be 25-30 minutes but regularly takes me 45-60 minutes because of traffic, but I cant relax and read my book! Decades ago, my family kept moving an hour in either direction each time my dad who worked one-year aerospace contracts got another job that was always in the opposite direction. Eventually, I found a gym near work, and would go there and get my workout in and wait for traffic to die down. As someone who just put an offer at $80,000 over asking on house that would be 5 mins from my partners work, I feel personally attacked, yet so validated, by this equation. I know lots of people who work in NYC and have 1.5 to 2 hour commutes from Suffolk and even Pennsylvania because housing is way less expensive in those places. I commute 1 hour each way to work (55 miles each way). The challenge is to find something that will be better for him but also public-transitable for me. I was stressed and tired and missed my family. I am in Orange County and it takes me anywhere from 35 minutes to over an hour to drive 14 miles. Hopefully these new transportation options will benefit commuters like OP. In Seattle, not so much. I regret doing this to myself, so much. This sounds about right for LA traffic. I ultimately left a job I LOVED because the commute was not sustainable after 18 months. Bad day is about 15. Heres what got me through it: -Audiobooks and podcasts (you can get free books through Overdrive and Hoopla with your library card). Some people want to be able to afford a big 3-4 bedroom house, so theyre willing to come from farther away in order to live somewhere they can afford that. 30-45 on a good day. That is sadly very normal out here (and thats my current commute). Yes! Ha ha. My boyfriend lives in the Yucaipa/Redlands area and commutes 1.5 hrs to Anaheim every day and sees it as the norm, meanwhile I commute from LB to Anaheim (35-1hr) and its the max Im willing to do. not an area where long commutes are typical) and moved out of town to save money about 18 months ago. In the mean time, he goes in pretty early and leaves early (like 7 3) in order to avoid some of the worst of the traffic. That doesnt have to mean a new car, it can mean things like a nice sound-system, snacks and sunglasses in the seat pocket, nice-smelling stuff if thats what you go for. :), Copyright 2007 - 2023 Ask A Manager. But I work remotely 2-3 days a week and when Im home, my quality of life is so much better than it would be if I lived in northern NJ or NYC. I was going to suggest you try driving to your parents once a week but that's not really possible at the moment. Its not about what a normal commute is, its about what the OP wants in her life and what shes willing to do in terms of her commute. I used to have a 1.5 2hr commute (depending on rush hour) from a part of Northern VA into DC, so its definitely not just California. For this area, its the cost of housing that drives people to live further away from the metro areas and creates those long commutes. So my only advice, which is pretty unhelpful, is think seriously about how long you might wanna be in this job and then, if it seems like a while, just move closer. If OP reads this and thinks, You know, thats not at all the tone hes using, and I dont think hes trying to convince me Im foolish for feeling stressed about this, then hooray. I live in NJ and commute into NYC and my commute is roughly two hours door to door. I didnt love it, but it wasnt too bad since it wasnt a straight-up crawl unless there was an accident. Hot, muggy, smoggy, YUCK. It doesnt really matter what your boyfriend thinks is normal if thats simply unsustainable for you. If not, find another job. Cross-London commuting SUCKS. (Also no left turns! I live in Burbank. I used to have a 15 mile LA commute that was never less than 45 minutes and would reach 2 hours at least a couple of tines a week. Obviously theres a lot of variability, but it is not at all abnormal for people to commute 2+ hours to and from work here. Jk :) But seriously, Im glad it worked out for you. and some of the back roads are in run-down or sketchy areas, depending on which part of LA youre in. Hes not wrong though. Im about 45-50 minutes in the car (9 miles of stop-and-go). That aside though, if both you and the guy work in LA, why not just move there? Its just a matter of life in a major metro area. I love LA and would give anything to move back, but it would only happen if I had a sustainable commute. The average commute keeps getting LONGER. All rights reserved. If youre interested in going that route, Lunacycle is an ebike manufacturer based in El Segundo that you could visit. 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