my friend told me that people outside of big cities do not commute...is it true?

I live about 10 minutes outside of Boston, but I work outside of the city. My commute's between 25 and 35 minutes by car.

i take the train (subway) to work and it takes about 50-55 minutes...i live and work in nyc, clearly a large city

i didnt vote for my fiance, but he lives in a medium sized city and does the same as me, by train a little less than an hour

I live just outside of Philly and I walk about 1.2 miles (divided between home-train station and train station-work and back again) and the commute by train is about 20 minutes.

i live in a toen of 35,000 ...in illinois...i drive to st louis..it is 18 miles takes about 45 minutes on average..

We live in a small tourist town...population right at 25,000. Takes me 10 minutes to get to work, depending on traffic. My husband drives 20 minutes to work. We've learned when the traffic peaks are and leave a few minutes earlier. Lemme tell ya...leaving just one or two minutes later than I should can cause me to be late for work...traffic is horrendous!

I live in a small town, 5,600 people, and believe it or not we have NO public transport lol So people have to drive here. It takes me on average between 30-35 min to get to work. Takes Gary 25 min.

I live in a town with about 200,000 and it only takes me about 10 minutes to get to work. (I work VERY close to my house)

By car, it takes me 35-40 minutes to get to my workplace during commute hours, relieves me from undue stress (there's more stress waiting for me at work). I tried taking the bus and BART train and it takes me about an hour and fifteen minutes, that is if there are no delays in bus/train schedules. I reside in the SF Bay area.

Technically, W-DC is medium-sized city of roughly 560,000 (including suburbs, exurbs, ... but not Baltimore you get to 6.5 million; including Baltimore and environs, it hits 8.5 million).

W-DC metro area is quite notorious for long commutes. For me, it takes somewhat over 1 hour at best--don't even ask about worst-case.

I drive but it's only 3 miles. I keep threatening to ride my bike but am just too damn lazy

I think you may drive by my house to work if you take 13/15.

I make it a rule to not have a commute of greater than 30 minutes. Any more is just another hour or more I've lost. I once had a commute of ten minutes walking. That was GREAT! Could sleep and never had to worry about the weather or traffic. It was a pleasure to go to work.

I used to drive to a place up on L.A. and if we didn't get on the freeway by 5:30 it was a two hour commute. Ugh

I have to walk downstairs Sometimes I have to take a detour into the kitchen for coffee.

I commute 25 minutes each way to work - it's not too bad. The best part is that I car pool and there are three of us - so I don't drive too much OR pay a lot for gas .
We live in Florida and public transportation SUCKS where I live, everything is spread out, and it's too damn hot in the summer - we have to have cars.
My husband has a bad commute of 45 minutes - but he likes his job (he's the non-USC). I'm a teacher so we decided when the school year is over in June we'll move closer to his work (where if he weren't to stay he'd still have many opportunities) and I'll work at another school - no problem for me.

My job is only 10 minutes away. I'm then another 10 minutes from a city of about 1 million.

I live in a very rural area in a town of about 6,000 people. I live on one end of town and I work on the other and it takes me about 10 minutes to get there. I wish I could walk or ride bike but I have to pick up the mail and drop off two children to school and then pick them up after work at daycare. It's very easy to get to work here - even when I lived in the country 15 miles away, you can still make it to work in 15 to 20 minutes.

My fiance in the UK has a totally different schedule. It takes him nearly 1 1/2 hours to get to work. And the way they drive over there, or should I say, the way he drives over there - scares the crap out of me. No way could I commute in the UK. I'll take my rural laid back life anytime.

There is also no public transportation here.

The quiet life is great!

My town has 281,000 people and it literally takes no more than 15 minutes to get to anywhere in my town

Jonny flies in on the 9th next month and his plane lands at about 6:30pm. I can leave the house at 6:15pm, get to the airport, find parking, get to the terminal and he will still be on the plane

I have a 10 min walk to the bus stop, then a 10 - 15 min bus ride to the Subway station, then a 20 min train ride, then a 5 min walk to work.... about 45 - 50 mins most days...

I live in a Suburb of Boston....


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I live in Greencastle and work on the northwest side of Indy. 60 miles / 75 minutes each way. Greencastle is "out in the sticks" (9900 or so). There are essentially no jobs in my town that aren't factory-related. Larry doesn't do factories any longer. I.T. jobs have dried up in Indy, so I can't do that, either. I'm working at one of my old jobs now.... mechanic/salesperson for a bicycle shop. It's low-stress, and it pays more than working in a factory close to home (and more than 125% of poverty level. LOL!). I miss seeing Mags, though. Don't really see her on Wed, Thurs, or Fri. Saturday we have a little time together, and Sunday we usually have a nice bike ride before I go to work (noon). Monday and Tuesday I'm off. Best part of being off is not driving 120 miles per day. lol

live in Kannapolis NC, drive 30-45 min to the CLT!

less than 15 min by car (only option)

When I have my freelance hat on it's a 20 second walk to the office, but it does mean I have to get up early to have phone meetings at 9am BST (4am EST). When I have my self-employed hat on it's a 15 minute bike ride, or a 25 minute ski walk depending on the season.

Wow, skiing to work, how cool is that?

Our city has about 80,000 people, but my husband has to commute to Tampa to work in his field. Takes over an hour each way unfortunately.

Our city has prob 100,000 people, it is a university town in Northern Indiana. I commute 20 mins (approx 9 miles) to work in Michigan. My husband commute 20-30 mins to work - depending on traffic.

No option of taking public transportation though.

I can't answer for myself nor for my hubster - we both work from home and options for #2 all indicate there *is* an actual commute.

Car, less than 15 minutes, suburb.

If I elected to take public transportation to work, I'd have to walk about 10 minutes to a bus stop, take a 10 minute bus ride to another bus stop and switch to another bus which would take me to work in about 30 minutes. 50 minutes travel time, not including time spent waiting for the bus.

My wife drives 30 minutes to work with no options of public transport available at all.

I live in a pretty small city and commute about 45 min to an hour to work in another city and drop my daughter off to school in a third city. They are all officially, legally cities, but they are probably the size of a township, not really a city like NYC. Now, I lived in NYC and commuted by train an hour from Queens to Brooklyn to work. So maybe I'm more willing to commute than others here where I live now, who make their life fit in the town more than I do.

I live in a smaller town of about 85,000. I drive to work and it takes me about 5 minutes. I don't even have to get on the freeway! Hicham walks about 4 or 5 blocks to get to work. I always told myself I could never live in LA or San Diego or anywhere where the traffic is terrible and the commute is more than 30 minutes.

i used to ride on a tricycle(type of public transpo in the Philippines) when i was working same when i was also schooling then.

I live in a medium sized city. I drive my car to work and it takes 15-20 minutes depending on traffic.

BK whatup

I drive about 40 min to work right now... we live in a very rural area, and i work in a medium city... my husband drives about 40 minutes also... But we are moving to the town where he works (which is closer to my work) pretty soon since we aren't liking how much we spend on gas and car repairs right now...

I live about 8-10 miles from work, and it takes 10 minute walk + 20 minutes in bus meaning in total about one hour as the bus I have to catch leaves earlier (but I can have a breakfast at work so no biggie for arriving 15 minutes early, as the next alternative arrives 15-20 minute late when on normal shift). Practically one hour there and one hour back ...

Albuquerque is a medium-sized city and we live on the outskirts, it takes about 20 minutes to get downtown during morning rush, 25 minutes to get back, and only 15 minutes each way to go home at lunch.

We carpool together, we only have one car and work near each other.

I haven't had a car since 2003.

I live on Kansas City MO and the population it's about 454,000. I go by bus, 45 minute ride each way. Very entertaining riding the bus, there are very funny people in there

I live in a very small town, my neighbors are a hay field, a tree farm, and two old sisters-- way downt he street there's a few houses too.

I commute to a small city, and depending on how many slow school buses I get stuck behind it takes me 35 minutes to an hour to get to work. I put like 25K miles on my car in a year just driving to work and back.

car

less than 15 minutes

medium sized city (100,000-1 million people)

Pretty lucky for living in SoCal.............

I walk out of my front door, turn right, walk up 5 steps, through another door, turn right, then right again, through another door and i'm there.



I'm actually looking forward to having to commute for a little bit of a change!

My commute is 35 minutes one-way in a large city by car 95% of it on the highway, no traffic. Thank whatever it is only temporary.

30 min by car. I live in the middle of corn, soybeans, and pigs.

I work downtown and it takes me about 15 minutes to walk to my office. I live in a medium size city (660.000 at night, 1.5 m during the day when the commuters come in). Rent here is so high, that people can't really afford to live in the city.

I really enjoy the walk in the mornings and evenings, some fresh air is good and gets me going for the work day and relaxes me at night.