Rob_999

20km drive into downtown vancouver - takes 25mins

pinzo

Wow!
Lots of different times/distances travelled!
Some of them made me laugh, esp. the ones going from one floor in the house to the other to get to the home office....and the pit stop for the wazz....very funny!!

dbb - you have a crazy commute!! I thought mine was going to be a long way but you made mine look like a walk in the park! How long you been doing that? Do you hate it now?!

My current job is only 3km away, so changing to 40km will be a wake up call!!
But have to do it to earn better money and better future job prospects.
Maybe if it works out well, I'll move closer (east towards Mississauga) to ease the commute times.

Thanks guys...I enjoyed reading all the posts!!

Mountain Girl

A 15 min walk to work.

el_richo

Used to be 5 seconds from bedroom to home office. New contract has me in the office so i drive 10 miles in about an hour

dbd33

That's the tip of the iceberg. Consider a recent Friday. I woke up in Toronto, drove to the farm (75miles), let the dog out to pee, drove to the non-downtown job (60 miles), drove to the farm to collect the cat(60 miles), drove to a suburb to collect the child(60 miles), drove downtown to drop off the cat(10 miles), drove back to the farm(75 miles). I do the downtown-farm-job morning loop once a week or so.

I've been doing approximately this for three years. For the first year and a half I drove downtown every day. One day I forgot something and did it all twice.

I hated it from day one. I get no pleasure from driving in Canada. It's also rather an expensive way to go about living. Petrol, wear and tear (110,000 miles on a three year old car) and the steady stream of speeding tickets add up. And then there are the lectures about my enormous carbon footprint.

But, and I suspect few posters can say this, I've seen a donkey castrated and I've chased a herd of escaped equines across fields in the dead of night. You can't say I haven't lived.

el_richo

I saw 2 fruit flys having sex in a frog tank the other day

dbd33

Straight or gay?

Mr Lee

With each other, or frogs?

el_richo

I couldn't tell but looking at the lack of interest of the mounted party, i would say straight

Tuppence

45 mins (no, not fruit fly sex, commuting).
That includes a detour for daycare drop off. Without that it's about 25-30 in rush hour from Fall River to downtown Halifax - its about 25km

cov-canuck

35km, takes between 25-35 minutes. Takes about 40% of the time to get to the 401, and the rest is 401 against traffic.

Beats my commute in England - 1 - 1.5 hours in the car, 15 minute walk, 20 minutes on a train, 15 minute walk, then in reverse in the evening. Too many fail factors - traffic meant I missed the train, bomb scare in New Street meant I'd get stuck at the station, etc.

And then today, I'm working from home, so getting to work involves swinging by the kitchen for tea, then sprawling on the couch with my laptop.

pproehann

An initially short drive gets longer and longer as Australian Main Roads are obsessed with traffic lights.

Jingsamichty

Jeez, that's true here too. I think planners must panic if you can go 300 yards without traffic lights.

dbd33

Roundabouts and draining boards, fundamental building blocks of a civilized society almost completely absent in Canada.

G77

They've decided to start sticking in roundabouts here - fiver says I see someone driving round it the wrong way within a week of it opening....