As someone who grew in Rural Washington, I completely understand! Another option for the OP, if she is up for it I have some coworkers who have a membership at a gym close to work. It might be 3 hours at rush hour, when offices and schools re-open. When the commute impacts your quality of life its definitely time to think of solutions. I live and work in Contra Costa County SF Bay Area, across the Bay Bridge past Oakland. But if you live outside the downtown core, youre looking at a minimum of an hour. Im running out of podcasts to binge. That said, the days where the commute gets over 1 hour are tough, and I definitely couldnt do that twice a day. She pushed and they finally agreed to a compromise; they moved into LA proper, and her commute cut down to about an hour and a half while his commute extended to 25 minutes (he was going against traffic flows). Also it is RIGHT at the juncture of two major freeways, and minutes from a bus/train depot. When I was commuting 45 minutes on my bike, even in wintry conditions, I had other young and healthy friends who said I dont understand how you can bike that far, I would never but ultimately I enjoyed it. A friend posted earlier in the week that median prices in Seattle are now over $800,000. Its best if you can avoid freeways too. 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. Horror or smart comedy (like George Carlin and seinfeld)! I mean, if you work in a downtown office, you prolly wont be able to afford rent anywhere in that general area. I live in L.A. and both my husband and my commutes are 35-50 min. Im sooo looking forward to it. Its an awesome daycare, but we hate this. I grew up in Fairfield/Vallejo area, in fact, for that exact reason it was where my parents could afford to live, and my dad commuted from there to Hayward for years. Everything I am finding in research gives somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes as the average commute for the area. I live in Silicon Valley. NYC. As the crow flies, my commute is 4 miles. That would be my version of Hell on earth. The only good thing was that I had a lot of time to listen to podcasts and audiobooks. Is your boyfriends work near yours? On the other hand a 1.5/2 hour commute would be very mentally . My last contract was about 40 miles away from my domicile and I drove. Doh! I used to live in Los Angeles over by the Greek Theater, so I understand the traffic nightmares. My commute is outlandish for here in New England. You might still be spending 2 hours but at least you can read or play a game or something. Perhaps you should take your own advice about making unwarranted assumptions? Audiobooks are common. Oh, and my old commute had 17 traffic lights. Ehhh, no, I think its valid for the boyfriend to point out that a 2-hour commute is often normal in LA and the surrounding areas. I did that length of a commute for about a year when I lived there. 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. Once or twice a week is fine. Time is valuable, and spending it commuting sucks. Everyone driving cars on huge highways is a very inefficient way to get masses of people to and from work, especially considering how bad human drivers are at efficiently using roads (I recommend that everyone watch CGPGeys video of traffic). I started taking local roads, which didnt save me any time but did save my sanity because at least it wasnt stop and go. Oh and the surrounding areas that are between my home and LA lets just say Im not out to gentrify those plots. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. This! Oh, Los Angeles! I see my kids plenty despite my commute; I definitely see my kids awake more than my husband does because he ends up working later hours that have nothing to do with his 20 minute commute. I think the conclusion usually is that life is too short to suffer and waste that kind of time. Oh, well be able to visit Griffith Park, no problem well, we visited it, but it took a lot longer than expected. Native Los Angelino here, Im SUPER LUCKY that I only have a 40 minute (12 mile) commute. Moving closer to his job would mean being farther away from mine. Hahaha what? Or if you rely solely on bus and are coming from an outer city in the direction of traffic. Distant suburbs are lower income than most of the city. 2 on bad days. It was 27 miles, and 2 hours one way most days. Its actually longer for the next 6 months while they do construction on the gate closest to me. Maybe try to find something closer to home? I hate driving to his and he hates driving to mine. Even though its not far as the crow flies, I have to budget up to 90 minutes to get to work. It looks like OP has already made the decision to quit. The downsides are that a lot of elderly and disabled take the bus so that slows things down when they have to raise/lower the ramps to let them on/off; and everyone can talk on their cell phones. Its very specific to you. Blue line to red line, and then ride share or bus would also work. Um, OP posted earlier about a frightening and traumatic experience that gave her PTSD, which is the main reason she does not feel safe on public transit. I think a long commute driving wears on you much much more than,say, public transit where you can work on other things. I had no idea that kind of commute existed! I dont know south OC as well, but its definitely a longer commute to LA. I would only move back to San Francisco if I could live AND work in the city. Brea, Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills just have freeways. And Id complain about my commute from West Hollywood (On Palm @ Santa Monica Blvd) to Beverly Hills (Doheny @ Wilshire). 20-30 minutes is averagefor 7 1/2 miles! 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. Coming from NYC, where I had to walk everywhere with all my stuff or take the subway with hundreds of other people, I have never minded being alone in my comfy car listening to my podcasts or music in peace. It costs you weekends when you dont go out and do much because youre so tired and just want to stay out of the car for once. Unfortunately no. I worked from home full time for 10 years in LA.you can live anywhere and choose any job and be 5 min or 2 hours from your job. Seconding this, having just escaped the bay area. About half of the route is alongside parks so there are no street corners to negotiate. I checked and the ride on the Blue Line from Long Beach to Downtown L.A. takes over an hour. What was the most outrageously unwarranted bollocking you After the Hy-un-dai, sorry I mean, Hyun-dai, fiasco, what Press J to jump to the feed. This makes me so sad. Check out Port of Los Angeles jobs international shipping companies might like your language skills. It can be perfectly normal to have this commute in some locations, and some companies accommodate that (allowing flexibility for traffic jams/weather, offset working hours, working 4/10s.) I tell people the car I drive is not nearly nice enough to want to spend a significant portion of my life in it! Ive lived in the greater LA area my entire life traveling from the eastern edges of the county westward into LA and a 2-3 hour drive into the downtown area has always been the normal in my experience. My cousin does two hours each way I dont see how you could maintain a proper amount of sleep and/or a social life with that. I do not feel safe taking Blue Line and neither does my husband who is a 6 ft big dude. Its the worst. Ive never worked more than a 20-25 drive away, and once had a commute that was 2-3 minutes! 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. It works, but cuts into family time together. Car pool to share the annoyance of the road. The worst days weve encountered in 8 months were 2 separate days where it took me two hours- and that was literally when a water main break (and a gas pipe leak) caused multiple freeway shut downs that made everyone get stuck. Also, Metro is beefing up security on lines and I would always see sherriffs on board checking fares. http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-echo-park-traffic-20180404-story.html. Nope. I would say 45 min-1 hr is normal. I couldnt imagine having that kind of commute without public transit. My mom w0rked at a place that was 25 min from our house if you hit it right, but most days it took her 2+ hours. One hour for me, but that includes dropping off a kid at school. Ancestry DNA - Am I being stupidly paranoid? Most of my colleagues travel at least an hour to an hour and a half, and mostly by mass transit. Employees who are called back to work on a holiday are entitled to at least 2 hours pay at the holiday premium pay rate (5 U.S.C. Most people in LA dont have 2 hour commutes because most people arent driving 30 miles to work. You can see them broken down by metro area here and by county here. Thats why people consider dating people who live on opposite ends of LA to be long-distance relationships. Like some of the others have said, distance and actual commute time are not necessarily correlated around here (Im in LA, but not in Los Angeles proper) so if having a more reasonable commute is a serious priority for you, do your best to check things out ahead of time. I moved to the city, and it went down to 15 minutes. I looked at a job offer in Beverly Hills, and though it would have paid more, the only ways for me to get there were: One selfish driver may add minutes to the commute of others to shave seconds off of their commute. Ive lived in Los Angeles all my life, and long commutes are a thing here. came here to ask the same question: why dont you and OP use an (electric) bike? Most of it is interstate driving. Before the pandemic, it was a two-hour journey on the subway from Hong Kong to Shenzhen. Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show 3.7 million workers travel for two hours or longer every weekday. I live in Southern MD and commute to College Parkco-sign everything you said! I live AND work in Redwood City (also SF Bay Area) and it takes me 20 minutes. Most people who work in Burbank cant afford to live here anymore houses in my neighborhood start at over $800k for 1100 square feet. Ive lived in SoCal for 48 years and never worked more than 20-25 minute drive from any place Ive ever worked (shortest commute: 2-3 minutes.) An excellent point! 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. Ive lived in SoCal for 48 years, born & raised here. OP, I saw youre putting in notice good luck! LB to Weho sounds terrible. It turned what used to be a 2-hour commute for me to an hours drive. I picked housing that was 15 miles away instead of the 30 miles away better areas that everyone else thought I should go to because I didnt want an hour commute so Ive been a little disappointed with the 45 minute days, honestly. Like many commuters, Neil Shapiro never quite knows what will happen on his . I go visit my guy up that way once a week now and I marvel that I did that commute 5 days a week for 5 years. 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. Signed, Hopefully soon Ill get to spend more time at home. I live in the SFV, two major freeways are short drives away. If I was taking public transport, I may find it easier because I could possibly be getting some work done on a train. It was a cost of living/housing/real estate thing at the time. Should I ever leave here, the commute will be a MAJOR factor. Forgot the link! ), I can move back. If Id done that commute via freeways, it would have taken at least an hour each way. Who cares whats normal if it doesnt work for you! Even if no one else is doing, for example, a 1/2 hour commute by train, she should do it if it works for her. When I lived in Seattle (suburbs!) Come to the Pacific Northwest, where 2 hour commutes are also not uncommon! Since hes from a smaller town, he never really got used to commuting and hates it passionately. Probably? 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. My daily drive is about 26 miles, and takes just about 1.25 hours during the school year, including one stop to pick up my carpool buddy. A little over an hour is by commuter rail. Ive lived in SoCal for 48 of my 51 years. Me personally, Im taking a vanpool from the IE to the OC. It costs the community when you dont have the energy at the end of the day/week to get involved in groups or organizations that could have gained from your presence and contribution. Not only are all houses money pits, my executive function issues are too severe for me to deal with the major responsibility of it all. Theres a reason, despite improved public transportation, we love our cars. Although it make take the same amount of time to ride the train than to drive, its SO much less stressful and your company may even pitch in to pay for it. Good luck! You should see the housing prices in LA proper. If you cut your commute time in half (down to 1 hour/day total) and spent that newly freed time (6 hours/w Continue Reading 6 Related questions More answers below How can we stay productive yet working continuously for 16 hours? I cant offer any insight to the actual traffic because I have never been to California but I do live in Mexico City, where traffic and commute can be just as insane judging by what Im reading here. OC is kinda huge, and the traffic and transit availability varies enormously. I have a good job at a good organization that Im not willing to leave, and trying to find work in a different state is a difficult endeavor. I drove, did public transport and frankly, I gave up and moved. Day. My commute from my outer borough is roughly 70-90 minutes one way. However *I* prefer the one thats a quick no-stops jump on the freeway, and he prefers the one thats a leisurely drive on surface streets. My morning commute could take anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours and thats all within suburban Maryland going in basically a straight line down the highway. I can do the drive in 20-30 minutes, depending what time I leave. A lot of my coworkers did the same. I live in LB and commute to Weho @Princess Consuela. Might feel a bit tired that one day but if you can wfh the rest of the time you're more than making up for it. I lived in downtown LA for 2 years and commuted to Culver City, about 12 miles away. Theres the concept of geographically undesirable and thats pretty much where you are. Ironically for us that meant moving to San Francisco (the actual city). I spent as much time changing trains as travelling. I used to drive from OC to Pasadena once a month to sell at the Rose Bowl flea market, but since that was at the literal crack of ass on a Sunday, there was NEVER any traffic! Now Im in NM and oh my, its wonderful and I never ever want to go back to a big city. 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. When I had a job in the San Fernando Valley the commute was fine because the traffic went in the opposite direction.. At my workplace, it goes from a 10-15 minute walk to up to 2 hour or more drive. The nation's major metros all have similar commute times, ranging from 28 to 37 minutes. There are lots of nice areas that arent super expensive, and it would immediately solve both of your commutes. When I lived in SF, the 45-minute ride from my apartment into downtown was already pushing it for me. Ill never go back to the stress of traffic jam commuting. I would find 2 hours each untenable, and thats okay! Although moving is easier said than done. (I was born and raised in LA but now live in Santa Barbara; we have traffic jams at rush hour now too but of LA strengthyet.). The lane changes are especially frustrating and bottlenecking, especially when youve got lots of trucks on the road (e.g., the I-5/110 junction). My husband and I are considering buying a house right now, and since we live in a city where walking is not common, our realtor seems bemused by the fact that we outright reject anything more than 2.5 miles from my office. I also happen to live in a part of the city that is very conveniently located relative to the suburb where my office is located, and that was sheer luck. Sacramento is its own metro area and is solidly Central Valley/Sacramento Valley, but theres also the Amtrak, which can make the commute less miserable than driving. The only difference Ive seen is the urbanization of the formerly rural parts of those counties (e.g., Gilroy, Antioch/Oakley, Livermore, Healdsburg, Petaluma, Vacaville) and an expanding commute pattern. Frances O'Grady of the Trades Union Congress, which published the figures,. 1 Hour is perfectly fine for me however it can differ with others, 2 hours does seem a tad much especially when you have to consider traffic. Definitely not normal here! Not only was it long and tiring, since it was public transportation, I was always stressed out about whether a leg of the trip was going to get messed up, thus throwing off the entire thing. Oh yeah. That was unsustainable, and eventually higher management began to push back against the practice too (the travel money was expense-able, and it was eating into our profits like woah). Los Angeles is not only not really bike friendly, in fact it is quite a bit bike hostile. Ive also taken the local Transbay bus into the city at other times. I used to live in LB and HB have worked in Santa Monica all the way south to Corona Del Mar. Two hours was totally normal for the area I grew up in, if you commuted into the city from the suburbs. So many expats here live in beautifully appointed apartment buildings. Ive been clicking through to different infographics for like half an hour now. I spoke to my manager, and he agreed to this and said I can commute once per week (when the office opens up again). Ive been running after aliens in 4-inch heels and Mulder just does not appreciate that as much as he should. The only thing about the train is it takes forever to get anywhere so, kind of like your 2-hour commute, but without you having to steer :). Only you'll know but it really doesn't seem that bad. Or you know, just doing the laundry. They also refuse to go to restaurants on like, Saturday nights, because they expect to wait hours for a table. LA math: 4 blocks closer = $100K more -30 minutes of your life back every day x 365 = sanity-debt. My commute in Sacramento is 20-30 minutes average. Hes pretty much resigned to the fact that hes going to have a commute wherever he lands. Spoken as an Angelino with a 1 hr public transit commute. But I did get sick of the commute & moved closer in so I only now have a 30 min commute. Moving to a huge metro area later taught me as someone who needs time between leaving and arriving at work, 45 minutes is my absolute max for city commutes and 1.5 for country miles. Bad traffic day, more like 75 minutes. And now I am a champion road trip driver and change my sense of how far is far to go. Yes, why? Early morning starts and late finishes, due to excessive travel, would've been so draining. I like you, I thought my commute would not be too bad (give or take 20 to 30 mins every day). My commute is 12 miles. There is no reason why you should accept this commute as part of your life. About 10 years ago, I lived in the Cleveland burbs and commuted about 1 hour to graduate school (which in that program was a full-time 5-day-a-week job). Or if youre commuting from the Valley (Tracy/Manteca) to San Jose is from the central Alameda and CoCo County suburbs (Danville, San Ramon, Dublin/Livermore) to Silicon Valley. 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. Right now my partner leaves for work at 5am so that he can beat traffic, which is kind of miserable but at least he has the ability to work flexible hours so he can do it. (But the solution is to drive off peak because there isnt really a public transit option thats any faster than driving during rush hour.). If you get off the freeways and drive through the city, youll just get stuck behind red lights, pedestrian traffic and buses. Ultimately I moved walking distance from work, have a 20 min walk and 5 min drive. Id really recommend giving it a shot, if you can. My bf and I have been talking about buying his fathers house in OC (and I love OC and love living in a suburban area after growing up in a big city, and living in big cities all my life and now living in a very residential area). Commute time depends largely on when I leave: if I leave home at 6:30 am, it takes 30 minutes; if I leave at 7:30 am, it takes 45 minutes, and if I leave at 8:30, it takes an hour or more. I live in the SF Bay Area, and my commute is ~25 minutes with cruise control set for the speed limit (in the slow lane) on the freeway. I prefer taking the NYC bus even though it adds about 10 minutes to my commute. Chicago suburbs, work just past the West Loop; my morning commute door-to-door (walk, Metra, work shuttle) is an hour. Incredibly slow-moving trains? That would make two hours not an impossibility, but certainly not typical. i would quit immediately (if moving is not an option). I came here to suggest the LA Metro! Prospect, for those who know the area). Lots of people who find the trade off of cheaper housing commute to be worth it. It gets tiring fast. It is not sustainable. Jk :) But seriously, Im glad it worked out for you. 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). We quickly found the areas that would give both of us under 30 minute commutes and then were able to hone in on specific neighborhoods and rentals that met our other criteria from there. The further west you go (i.e. Thats the kind of analysis you have to undertake to avoid a 2-hour commute in that part of SoCal. Best move I ever made. It is not as bad as I expected it to be, but then again I can usually grab a seat on at least one of the subways and read or sleep through a chunk of the commute. 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. I frequently have to do a 90 minute one way commute to work. A lot of people do drive to metro stations, park, and ride the train, but metro has been hiking fares and cutting hours for years. San Diego is very nice weather and they are working on their transit system. In my line of work, there are not many opportunities closer to my house and if there are, the pay would not be nearly what it is in the city. Google Mythbusters can a traffic jam form from a driver tapping their brakes. The same commute by public transit would have been 1.5-2 hours (with a transfer) minimum. I recently moved to Magnolia, about 6 miles to my office. When I had a job in the San Fernando Valley the commute was fine because the traffic went in the opposite direction. mustang1 Guru Location London, UK 15 Jun 2022 #26 Yeah sure, why not. I bet you ten bucks they live in the valley, work on the other side of the mountains, and have to take the 405. 30 miles in LA is epic, I shivered thinking about it. Anytime train tickets An Anytime train ticket is a flexible ticket that allows you to travel at any time of the day. I was in the same situation when I started my job, thankfully I can now work at home part of the time. Our commute to Washington, DC is 2-3 hours each way, depending on the time of day. It works for me, for now. He works off-hours (starts at 6 am and leaves at 3 pm) so its not bad, but if he does hit traffic staying late it about 45 min-hour. I had a commute that was about 40 minutes each-way in no traffic (Atlanta). Its been life-changing. Include the Commute Cost Calculator on Your Own Website! This seems not-that-abnormal based on things my southern CA based friends have said about their commutes. Eventually, I found a gym near work, and would go there and get my workout in and wait for traffic to die down. 2 hours of bad traffic sounds absolutely awful, and I personally would be looking for another job over it. And thats weird because the city is only 77 square miles. Just because it is normal doesnt mean its sane. Train is less stressful, but can be up to 2.5 hours if he misses a bullet train. OP has to decide if the weather and the job is worth the trade-off of time. Or if you live in suburbs with poor public transit and no BART access (or cant afford BART over bus fare). It means that you basically live to work during the week. Mine is pretty average, then. My sister used to do Pomona to Glendale, but she luckily had an early start. Thats the rule). 2+ hour commutes are not OK for a lot of people and you sound like you are one of them. 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