So, what's your commute?

Started by Duke Speedy of Leighton, 08 June 2016, 06:45:32 PM

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Duke Speedy of Leighton

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/08/how-far-distance-workers-commute-uk-cities-mapped
I used to do Leighton Buzzard to Watford (45 minutes each way), then to Cranfield (20 mins)
Now I walk 400yrds!  :P
What's yours like (if you still work)?
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Techno

Walk about 800 yards around one of the fields with 'the pack'. (At stupid o'clock)
(The dumped collie, which looks like we'll be taking on, has a tendency to get out, and onto the road, if she's not monitored...So I can no longer just open the back door and go, "Off you go then".)

Put the pack back indoors.....Go and check the outdoor horses....Check the sheep....Check the chickens........200 yards ?

Make a coffee....walk back upstairs...Start pushing putty.

The actual 'commute' is really only about 40 yards. (Bed, downstairs, back upstairs.)

Cheers - Phil

fsn

16 miles-ish. About an hour door to door.
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7 miles and about 10 minutes from my house to the unit.  I've never enjoyed commuting at all, the longest used to be over an hour each way when I worked at Flamingo Land.
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12 miles home to work in the car takes 20 minutes, on my bike about 45 minute s.
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25 miles on my motorbike along the back roads from Kerikeri to Kaikohe in Far North district of NZ spectacular scenery all the way  :D :D :D :D :D

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fred.

If I walk about half a mile, but normally its a car journey in a big loop of 2-3 miles, to drop off wife and smallest daughter at different schools. Then at end of day to pick up both daughters from different schools.

Longest (in time) used to be in London, probably an hour each way, but I was young!!
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Subedai

Waaay back when I was a contract computer operator (mid 70's) I got a nights only contract at Heathrow Airport decoding the black boxes. I stayed in Hounslow for a week but it actually cost me a lot less to stay at home in Southend and commute every day. According to Google maps it takes 2 hours and 5 minutes. Stuck it for about 5 weeks then asked for somewhere else.

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Ithoriel

Ah! Commuting I remember it ... vaguely :)
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Maenoferren

12 miles, 2 on single track road then zooming off along the Tingwall straight😀 when I first came up here my house was in the same village as the school so a slow saunter of about 500 yards... down South 40 miles each way.
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jimduncanuk

About 17  feet back door to hut, 20 feet if I check the seed feeder on the way.
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Subedai

Nowadays it's literally ten steps down into my cellar and computer desk.

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nikharwood

About 40 miles to work - and at least an hour...Exmoor is a long way from anywhere that's not, um, Exmoor.

To be honest, I like it - it gives me time to plan my day and time to unwind on way home  :)

Plus, it's Somerset - so the scenery is beautiful  8)

Orcs

I commute 19 miles, It takes about 25 mins, although I have done it in quite a bit less than that, when I had a Porshe Boxter S  as a courtesy car while mine was being repaired after a Post Office van reversed into me.

On one occasion a few years back in the snow it took me 7.5 hours to get home
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Orcs

Quote from: Techno on 08 June 2016, 07:51:57 PM
Walk about 800 yards around one of the fields with 'the pack'. (At stupid o'clock)
(The dumped collie, which looks like we'll be taking on, has a tendency to get out, and onto the road, if she's not monitored...So I can no longer just open the back door and go, "Off you go then".)

Put the pack back indoors.....Go and check the outdoor horses....Check the sheep....Check the chickens........200 yards ?

Make a coffee....walk back upstairs...Start pushing putty.

The actual 'commute' is really only about 40 yards. (Bed, downstairs, back upstairs.)

Cheers - Phil

HANG ON!!!!    What about the obligatory round trip to A&E

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