Of course this being LA, die down is relative. Today it took me 8 minutes to get to work. Nothing beats an Albuquerque commute! My brother deals with a long commute by keeping a small rental room by his job so he can spend a couple nights each week staying near work rather than driving home every day. Yes, why? Absolutely fine. The distance between my house and my office was about 13 miles. I work in Costa Mesa and it takes me an hour (16 miles away). The median home price is $1.3 million dollars in my city. Its not smart comedy in quite the same vein as those, but the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast is wonderful. That said, commutes dont *have* to be that long even in this part of the country. Ive had between an hour 1.5 hour commutes for most of my working life, along with nearly everyone Im close to. It would have to be a pretty awesome job to be worth spending 4 hours daily commuting. Of course, thats me living out in a rural area, heading into the state capital and downtown. If I left after 4 it was definitely going to take at least 2-3 hours. And while it was scary as hell, we were all so drunk at the time we werent nearly as terrified as we should have been. Also agree that driving would make it much less bearable. MUNI IS THE WORST. Its absolutely not stupid! He also started work at the crack of ass, so he was home not long after we got home from school (and we had a SAHM.) Do yourself a favor. In metropolis areas youre looking at more competition for limited job openings. Perhaps this has been suggested already, but can you move closer to your job? Singing/ screaming along to some really loud music was the only thing left in my bag of tricks. Long commutes come with the booming economy & the sunshine. the job was great, i would have worked there forever, but, ugh, LA. Like I tended to pay much more for housing than folks that lived further out. Traffic in Southern California is just a fact of life. That doesnt seem sustainable or realistic. My previous job was 45 minutes away still not bad, is it? Thats actually why I stopped taking public transit and started biking in the first place. Normal rush hour traffic here is apparently about 45 minutes for 15 miles, but its easier to avoid the peak and I got into work in about 15 minutes today. You can consider public transit, I took the redline from the SF Valley into downtown for several years as part of my regular commute and I loved it, super convenient. I love LB and do not want to leave. It would be completely intolerable. 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. ! turns out, its even worse than people said. If I took surface streets it was about an hour to drive, taking the freeway was 1.5 hours. Im on the east coast. And Id complain about my commute from West Hollywood (On Palm @ Santa Monica Blvd) to Beverly Hills (Doheny @ Wilshire). That's train, tube, walk and drive to the station. More often than not I'd be home in 25 minutes and most days I spent less than an hour in the car. He missed the birth of our baby. (Forgot to add, distance is just over 20 miles.). If the bus is right there, it is a little quicker. by train: 1 hour with no transfers/switches Some people have the stomach for long commutes and some dont. Just wanted to make the distinction re: commute norms :). Im with you. It would help if you had cruise control and/or an auto gearbox. For me its an issue of cost. Seemed like the south-east end of the Bay was especially bad since transit there is not so good unless youre north along the BART, and of course housing just gets more expensive that way. You move closer to your work, or work closer to your house. OP, Im older than you by 20, so let me share my thoughts on a long commute. I dont think there are any good options here for your. I used to commute from Pomona to Pasadena, about 30 miles. I think its worth considering whether the trade-offs are worth it when youre dealing with a long commute. I put in the mileage and it turns out that you need to move at least 50 miles closer to work in order to qualify for it, which annoyed me because Id only moved 30 but in my area thats a difference of at least three total hours of commuting time. Good luck =), Break a leg! Short answer: No. Without him around, I had to quit my job to take care of the baby. Lordy, I hope someone is watching. Someone mentioned Santa Monica above you would be hard pressed to find a 1-bedroom apartment for under $2000 a month. Its worth a conversation, ASAP.). I had to drive to the train, take a 1h10m train ride, then transfer to the subway to my office. Sitting in traffic makes me miserable person to be around rest of the day. Well the freeway goes over the Columbiaunless they create a much taller bridge it has to be a drawbridge. I would have guessed a bit higher. More than 4 hours commute time! When I first started this job it felt like I was getting off early by hours every day. Thatd be an increase of 1500/month vs what were paying for our house here (so 18,000 a year difference in housing cost, plus the fact you dont get equity). Ive had 5 minute commutes in West TX, 15 minute commutes in northern CO, 20-30 minute commutes in Albuquerque, NM, around an hour commute from rural central NM (to a 2 hour commute if I was attending class in Albuquerque that day), and 30 minute commutes in NE FL. I used to commute from Mission Viejo (south OC) to DTLA and it was a lifesaver. oof..s that I got about once a day for my first month. if florida, ok. Was this intended to be a comment to my comment? LA has too many cars but otherwise decent systems. Be careful of the cost implications though, increasing mileage might bump your insurance costs up. It is easier going north and south than east and west here, and it is the traffic that is what is the stressful part. My longest commute in the last 15 years was about 5 minutes. I knew it was bad, but to witness it, wow. That is sadly very normal out here (and thats my current commute). As the crow flies, my commute is 4 miles. Patch up the seats if necessary. Around noon, it takes about 30 minutes sometimes 20 if, for some reason, theres no traffic. Yes! And of course the more high-paying tech jobs are added there, the higher the demand for housing there is. Employer est. Did 2.5 hours each way in the Bay area. OK, I realize this is coming at the end of a loooong thread, but this all simultaneously made me weirdly homesick (Bay Area native) AND thinking about The Californians sketch on SNL and how true it is, Get on the 405 and never come back, Steeeewarrrrt!. I think youll find that it is quite safe. Yes 30 miles is too far for a daily cycle commute. So, kind of like Alison suggestedyou have to weigh what makes you happiest and what youre willing to deal with. I had to try really hard not to laugh. I dont think Ive ever worked anywhere more than a 20, 25 minute drive away and usually far less than that. I worked swing shift, which helped, but I also had a sports car, which I *loved* to drive! Theres no bus/transit that does a straight line between home and work, so I either have to take one bus into downtown then switch to another to get to Soma, or take a bus downtown then walk 20 minutes. 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. Im surprised the US average is 26 minutes. I loved my one-hour, door-to-door commute when I took Metra (just under 1/2 mile walk from my house to metra and then a little more than 1/2 mile from Ogilvie to my office). My office is six miles from my home. The answer to your letter is that you and your boyfriend are both righta 2-hour commute is normal, if on the extreme end of normal, and its also exhausting and bad for your health and nobody would think you were being unrealistic if you gave that as a reason for looking for a new job. On a bad day 2 hours. Here a long commute is 45 minutes of 55 mph with no traffic jams and people complain about it. Everything that came up was an hour, maybe an hour and 15 which would be tolerable for me. I think the longest commute I have ever had was 45 minutes to an hour (once driving and once by subway). Angeleno here and definitely not. Peak hours? Ill also mention that Ive been here for 13 years, and I dont know anyone who does a 2 hour commute. fully agree on the audiobooks it saves me from road rage on my commute! That area is home to Highway 401, the busiest stretch of highway in North America and one of the busiest and widest in the world. You can absolutely take the M train from Bushwick to Broadway-Lafayette in under 45 minutes. Are you happy doing it is the question. My commute is 1 hr and 45 minutes door to door, assuming no train delays. I already to yoga at 6 am every day (or bootcamp or whatever the other 6 am class is) but I really need to get home by 8 the latest to eat dinner and sleep. That sounds completely normal. A 2-hour commute is on the very high side of normal here. It beats everything but the three years I worked from home. I lived about 8 miles away from work, and it routinely took me 30-40 minutes to get to work, depending on the traffic. I vowed to never drive more than 30 mins each way (on a regular basis, there always can be exceptions) and have actually chosen to live really close to my jobs since then. Now it take 15-25 minutes depending on how long the lines are at the main gate. Now my commute is 10-15 minutes, depending on when I leave for work. They ended up going with the one on the east side of town because my dad realized during his practice commutes (which were the same distance and traffic time) that coming from the east side meant he never had to drive into the sun. I got a new job and now my commute is 15 minutes. I think this contributes to the OPs frustration and burnout, and Im glad to see shes taking steps (as she mentioned in a comment) to get a better situation for herself. Would any of those get you there faster? Im sure they have super low costs though. I started shooting out my resume last week and immediately hooked a few fish, so Im a lot less worried now. my commute could be as short as 20 minutesat midnight when no one else was driving. The 5 and the 91 both run through OC, so there is freeway access from, hmm- La Palma, Buena Park, Fullerton, Anaheim, Yorba Linda, Garden Grove, Orange, Santa Ana, Tustin, Irvinepast that Im not familiar as with. Sorry to say, if youre committed to staying in LA, very few commutes are going to be short. I lived in Northern California and the commutes were similarly awful. Its normal if you are going into West LA or OC (and that you are not going against traffic). Former Calli girl here. Anyway! 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. Echoing what the others said I moved close to Hollywood for my first job which had a reasonable commute (15-20 min by car). Im in the Boston area. I beg to differ. Welcome to horrible LA traffic. miles. Work is close to the edge of its city so I dont run into much there either. What is ridiculous to me is that commuting 6 miles on SF MUNI trains regularly takes 75 -90 min. I guess the silver lining is that The commute became too much for me seemed to be a commonly-given reason for leaving a position in Los Angeles, so hopefully interviews will accept that without question. I rent a house, and am SO grateful not to be the one that had to pay for repairs! Im lucky in that I can afford to live about 10 miles away from where I work, but before that, I had to live about 30 miles away from work because thats what my family could afford. 710 NW Bell Ave #B, Lawton, OK 73507 is a 1 bed, 1 bath, 672 sqft Apartment listed for rent on Trulia for $450. Compensatory time off is not allowed in lieu of pay for holiday call-back. Having done both commutes I would take an LA commute over a Toronto one in a hot minute. I work in a pretty niche part of healthcare, and Im enduring it for the opportunity that provides. My max is 1 hour. Now I live in Jersey and my commute is 1 hour and 15 minutes the same as it was from Harlem to my job on the lower east side. Some cities (San Fran being one) are simply not affordable for people, or people would rather live outside the city, and they make the decision that the job is worth that choice. 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. Its a nice way to decompress from the day, as opposed to getting on the T which is usually just as stressful as work, if not moreso. Theres not enough audiobooks or podcasts in the world to make that tolerable for me. Commuting 1 to 2 days a week If you're a part-time commuter who needs to be in the office only once or twice a week, you can choose from a wide range of ticket types, based on the flexibility and affordability you need. Its glorious. Alas, Los Angeles is like this nowadays. Im in the Tulsa, OK area and our average commute is 20 minutes so 2 hours is absurd given my frame of reference. This job is also much more flexible. We live, we learn :). When I got my current job it was 1.5 hour commute for about 6 months, when my apartment lease ended I moved as close to work as I could afford and now have a 20 minute commute. )even the drive to school wasnt that bad! Your boyfriends in the right on this one. My commute is 12 miles. (I had a part time flexible schedule and worked out super early near work on the days I did not to avoid the worst of the traffic. MUNI takes forever! These kind of verbal agreements, or even written agreement via email etc can go wrong sometimes. I did not get the job. Loved going through them again, and Stephen Fry was so good at the narration.). Now I commute 15 minutes to work but its a minimum of 90 minutes to get to a city of any size with anything interesting to do, even with no traffic. I barely tolerate my 10 minute commute. Timetables are generally designed for people travelling from the far-flung reaches to Sydney, and not the other way around, so this required some awkward choices, including two occasions when I had to grab a midnight train from the city and then lurk awkwardly on a remote platform waiting for a connecting service at 3am. Thats where my BF works too. Chicago suburbs, work just past the West Loop; my morning commute door-to-door (walk, Metra, work shuttle) is an hour. I was on the fence about a job (description of the duties seemed intentionally vague, interviewing partners seemed old-fashioned and sexist) but it was only eight miles away, so I felt like I couldnt pass it up. Luckily she was a low key kid who enjoyed listening to music. It is. I couldnt handle that. 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. Weve got kids and paying 2k+/month for a 2 bed apartment anywhere within 45 minutes wasnt happening. I was thinking it would be easier if she did it near work but shes already doing that. I would 100% not be able to do that. But there is tons of survey data (census and others) on *actual* peoples *actual* commutes indicating that 2 hours is not remotely typical, which is what the OP was asking about. 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. You likely have a job you're required to be at for 8 to 9 hours a day, minimum. A two-hour commute twice a day five times a week is sacrificing a whopping 20 daylight hours of your week - time you will never be compensated or thanked for, nor can you ever replace it. my first job ever was 2 hrs each way and it bled my soul dry haha. Pomona to Pasadena is now a lot easier with the Gold Line extension! I am definitely looking for something closer and started shooting out my resume to 10 miles within LB, and got a few bites already. 2 hours is totally normal and expected for a trip like this in rush hour. Ive decided that if I have to get a job any further away than about 30 mins, Im going to follow in his example and commute via motorcycle instead. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. On the road by 6AM I know! I did undergrad outside of LA. But at night traffic honestly doesnt clear up till like 7:30-8 pm here which is an hour before my bed time. I would have left a merely very good job a couple of years ago. I do all my decompressing in my car and I drive 45 minutes out of my way to shop in peace as well, so Im just a big ol crazy pants wanderer. I moved closer to the city and managed to cut the commute down to about an hour but then bit the bullet and moved into NYC where I now walk to work. LA resident here, though Im a transplant from Chicago. and how did you find it? : $15.00 - $22.00 Per Hour. NYC had an incentive to grow *up*, where LA had more incentive to grow *out*. Vallejo has always been part of the Bay Area. This seems expensive and wasteful to me, both in terms of money and life. Also, as some mentioned below, many freeways go through sketchy areas and I would not feel comfortable exiting. Anytime train tickets An Anytime train ticket is a flexible ticket that allows you to travel at any time of the day. Theres tons of people here in the same area disagreeing that 2 hours one way is normal. I live in Southern California and my current commute is under 30 minutes. Only two main surface streets (or I-90 and one surface street, but I try to avoid it because I hate tolls). It works for me, for now. Good luck with your job search! Yeah, I think I would hate it a bit less if it was a quiet, chill train ride. Three times now Waze has decided to reroute me (traveling from south Orange County north to eastern LA County area) away from the 5 FWY and up through Santiago Canyon Roadat midnight so that I can shave 2 minutes off my drive. Unfortunately, for that area and the commute you are doing 1.5 is the norm. I had a commute once that varied from 1-2 hours that I had to drive because I lived too far from the train, and it was so draining that I make all of my work/housing decisions based on public transit now. I currently live and work in LB and on a good day, its 7 minutes from door to door. But its much more relaxing than driving from Toronto to Barrie. Its the big reason I havent bought a home, and possible never will (at least until I retire). I can do the drive in 20-30 minutes, depending what time I leave. I guess my number 2 worst commute is anywhere east of DTLA to anywhere west of Los Feliz. :) It doesnt matter if its Anaheim to LB, Pasadena to Westwood, etc. It really boils down to population density and job density. 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. Getting home in the afternoons could take anywhere from 1.5 3 hours. No regrets. My bf lives in SF, and has been commuting to Mountain View, and it can easily take him 2 hours by car if traffic is bad. You dont have to accept it, though! Bay Area commutes can be awful, too, depending on where youre going. Later in the day, though, its another stories. Haha, were not arguing! 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. Now. Now Im in NM and oh my, its wonderful and I never ever want to go back to a big city. How can I make my drive to work more productive? 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. I would maybe do a practise run at the time youll normally be driving if youre unsure. I did figure out there were some things I could do to ease my commute: If theres been a wreck, it could take me 45 minutes to an hour to get home. Im in D.C. and two hours is long, but definitely not weird here. OP, when you lived in NY, there was a reason that you had a job in Soho and not in the Upper Bronx. Hats off to those who can stand commuting long periods like that. Id rather do cool stuff in my time off and take a pay cut. WAZE can take you on this back roads, and I agree, sometimes it does help to not go crazy from just sitting on a freeway, but it can be an adventure! Some people do it, sure, but Id say around an hour to an hour and a half is the norm. This is comforting, I am preparing to move to Malibu to live with an elderly family member and dreading the commute. The mitigating factor there was that I worked from home 2 days a week and had additional flexibility, otherwise it would have driven me insane. I live on the east coast, and the stories I hear about LA traffic are enough to make me want to stay on this side of the country forever. I was stressed and tired and missed my family. Im lucky that the apartment my husband and I moved into 12 years ago, before we had kids, has only had one rent increase in all that time. Here I am cranky because my new job means I cant walk to work anymore. I wouldnt take a 2+ hours commute either and have actually rejected or self selected out of jobs that would put me in that range (and I dont drive but exclusively use public transportation). In 1990. Ouch, that sounds grim. Maybe 30 minutes if I left before 7:10am. Old job was against traffic, current one iskind of across it. I started them a year and a half ago and theyve changed my whole commute life. Ive wished a million times I had never bought a house. My daughter is almost always the first at daycare, and last to leave. It doesnt seem excessive compared to the commutes of others in my office. I also lived uptown and usually got a seat, so YMMV.). I barely saw him. When they were first married, my parents lived in LA. When I lived in SF, the 45-minute ride from my apartment into downtown was already pushing it for me. I couldnt imagine having that kind of commute without public transit. OP is far from an outlier, but it doesnt mean she HAS to keep up a brutal drive like that. Most coworkers drove but some, including myself, took the train. The traffic-related info and anecdotes in this thread make me wonder why any sane human would ever want to live there. (And this is why were moving when our lease is up, because I can handle 45 min each way by car if it means I get to sleep another hour.). I moved northeast from my job in Fairfield county, CT and went from 20 mins each way to at least an hour, sometimes 90 mins. I have lived in the LA area most of my life. Yeah, LA you have to be pretty particular about where you live vs where you work. 20 hours per week! I pick jobs I apply for (Im lucky to be in a in-demand job so I can be picky) and if Id really have no choice for a job, Id move closer (Im by no means attached to my house, its just a house). The area I grew up in, for reference, is one of the top five cities in the US for bad traffic. I live in Brooklyn and work on the Upper West Side. Find a coffee shop or library, get shopping done, get a haircut, or take your coworkers out for drinks until later in the evening when everythings died down. im so excited. I hope to return to say more about LA traffic and choosing your jobs based on commute (which can include commuter buses, light rail, and number of alternate driving routes available), but the short version is: dont let your boyfriends acceptance of a long commute pressure you into accepting something that you find exhausting and/or sou-killing. Tons of accidents that cause lane closures and rubbernecking? Im Canadian. Yes, for LA (and the SF Bay Area), that is indeed common. Especially 2 hours in bad traffic. I use The Woodlands Express and i always get home in an hour or less! Not all at the same time, it was just one of the hazards of country driving. You dont think you can do this much longer. I live in OC, and yes, you see completely different realities if you drive rather than take transit, if you go to Los Angeles by car and park, or if you use the trains and subway. Thats all you need to know. I am all for better public transportation infrastructure my coworkers are used to my bemoaning the USs lack of a functional train system whenever I have to book a plane, shuttle, and car for a 400 mile business trip :) I am totally prepared to be an early adopter of self-driving cars though as soon as there are safe options I can afford. All rights reserved. Thats not being special snowflake, thats being realistic about your limitations. I drove from southeast LA county to central OC for 7 years, about 35 miles each way. I absolutely do not want to live this deep in LA. For 8 miles Im usually looking at 30 minutes in the morning and 45 minutes in the evening. OP, this is unsustainable. My commutes not bad now, but I miss that! I think just having parents around to babysit at short notice, and actually being able to do things in the evenings occasionally with my partner would be amazing. But the real question is it something you can do? Ive always had a long commute, until moving a couple of years ago cut my commute down to 20 minutes and going remote a few months ago cut it down to nothing. It took me 45 minutes to come home. I can understand small town areas/tgecountryside jusr not having the infrastructure (I grew up in a market town with regular buses to one larger town but anywhere else you could forget it, and the station was about three miles away) but Im just really surprised a major city wouldnt have public transport facilities? 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). Most people who have those really long commutes are traveling farther than you, or so it seems to me. Me personally, Im taking a vanpool from the IE to the OC. One accident in the wrong place and its another 2 hours stuck on the bus. Its limiting my job search, but I know I will be happier for it in the long run. that isn't considered living close in the US. I hope you find the perfect combination. Mine is about 10 minutes in the worst traffic, but that is because I live in a tiny little town. 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. And last one and then Ill stop, I swear! This sounds about right for LA traffic. I hear Atlanta is even worse. My point count your blessings everytime you feel that your commute of 1 hour took too long. It would only help for one way, but it would still give you back an hour or so. Its a ~10 mile commute that took me 45 minutes each way on a good day. He is planning to stay at his job for a while, so we are in the early stages of looking to move. 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.) 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. . and most of it was fine. Leaving work it is a bit longer because my shuttle only runs every 30 minutes, so I usually have to wait a bit. 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). (Okay, once a month theres the ferry schedule/Seattle traffic to plan around to get to Sea-Tac, but walking down the hall to the office the rest of the time more than makes up for it.). 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