news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3008567.stm
Suggests that we are now more likely to resit relocating for our careers and are more willing to commute.
How far do people drive daily in order to get to work? To start the ball rolling, I do 84 miles a day from Sutton Coldfield to Nottingham. I have an office based job there and do not travel as part of my day to day work. Spend a minimum of 10 hours a week behind the wheel.
Cheers.
TT
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I have a two mile drive to work so I usually try and walk the shortcut so I can either be there in 10 minutes driving or 25 minutes walking. I must admit that when the weather is bad I am much more inclined to drive than walk than I used to. I must be getting old!
teabelly
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I have been driving 90 miles a day from Middlewich up to Horwich. It was a large factor in deciding to move to a new job - current job is okay but not worth me moving closer for.
Like top turkey I am spending a vast amount of time in the car, 10 to 12 hours, and to be frank I have better things to do with my time. Also it puts massive mileage on my car and drastically increases service bills etc.
At my next venture I will be living about a mile away. May walk in the nice weather but that 2 minute drive is going to be absolute bliss!
Bye bye back-box :)
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I spent two-and-a-half years driving from Newark to Leeds everyday.
Three hour round-trip, five days a week equals 15 hours a week at the wheel. Average of about 40 weeks a year doing it equals 600 hours. Divide that by 24 equals 25 days.
So nearly a month every year doing nothing but commuting.
Life is too short for that.
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10 minute walk to station. 30-40 minutes on the train and tube.
Overcrowding on train and tube is getting worse and worse.
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Just over a 100 mile round trip every day. A fair proportion on the M56 - which seems to attract drivers who enjoy crashing into each other and the central reservation etc. Hence about 2.5 hours a day sat behind the wheel contemplating life.
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Yes - I found that as well when I used to travel it. It and the M6 Cheshire stretch compete daily for the title of "suicide run".
God knows why, it's hardly like it's a "complicated" stretch of motorway or has any particularly bad junctions.
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God knows why? Lots of others do too. It's because thousands of other drivers do the same thing.
And to revert to the first post on this thread - suggest? it's been obvious for years, if one looks back more than a decade or two. When I started paid employment, quite a few still cycled to work, and several buses used to turn up at 5pm to take workers home. In the eighties the buses went, and huge areas were turned into car parks which not long after were found to be too small. And people still find it strange that our road system is overloaded.
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Dead right Andrew. Way back in the 60's, the place I worked at in Hereford shut its Birmingham factory and many staff relocated. Several of them moved to a small town about 14 miles away (the properties were cheaper). All the locals thought they were mad, giving themselves such a long drive every day.
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No problem for me as I work from home.
However when I eventually change jobs, I would be more inclined to travel further than move as I feel that tehre is little loyalty from companies to their employees these days, and they could easily pay you a relocation package to the back of beyond only for the bean counters to decide you are redundant after three months...
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anywhere between 25 and 70 minutes in to work in the morning - 25kms, all dual-carriageway, but dependent on accidents, catching the lights correctly, weather, time I leave the house.
Return journey normally 25-30 minutes, I won't leave town if the traffic looks bad (for any of the above reasons), so will stay at work/go for a pint.
Public transport here is minimal, and what there is is dangerous!
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A colleague has just moved from Bracknell to Brighton out of choice, when his office is High Wycombe!
Five hours a day (and then some, on some days) of M25 + Mwhatever.
Mmmm. lovely!
Mad in the head, or what?
Yes, I know we have incredible freedom, and I like driving as much as many other people, but actually, this type of commuting by choice is an almost obscene waste of resources, IMHO.
In contrast, in my wife's home country of the Czech Republic, if you live 2 miles from work you?re a long distance commuter, and as I have found out, even having parents 50 miles away is unheard of too!
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Oh yes, I'm lucky: I either work from home, or take a quick drive to the airport to go abroad. Stopping my daily 20 mile (each way) commute last year, which is very short by many standards, has had a beneficial impact on life beyond my dreams. Wish I'd done it sooner!
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I used to drive 80 per day, M6 and M58, taking 1.5 to 2 hours total. On bad days, 3 hours on return trip north! Did this for 5 years. Worst problem was staying awake on the return drive!
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It is all Thatcher and Norman Tebbit's fault. "On yer bike" so we did.
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Commuting was put at second to house moving as the most stressful factor of modern living according to a recent gov report. I have also heard that commuting leads to a generally unhappy way of life (this was in one of those week end suppliment magazines).
Personally, unless you have wedded youself to your house, I would always consider a move to a location that is at least within cycling distance of a job, 10-15K. Who want\'s to wreck their car for the sake of their job, surely you have to consider the costs also to your health and general well being.
May be I\'m just a fussy pink fluiffy dice though, but i can\'t stand the idea of wasted fuel or car journeys. My car is for pleasure, not so i can get to work and earn the money to pay for my getting to work.
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I think I'm right in saying that the cost of moving house is somewhere in the region of £3-4k not including stamp duty if applicable. That's a lot of wear and tear on your motor never mind the lifestyle upheaval, changing schools for the kids etc. This is why when bypasses and major roads open they're quickly choked - that otherwise impossible journey is now do-able and hey, it's only another 20 mins each way
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Having always avoided the decision myself, I recognise that the fundamental crunch issues are (1) the cost of a house nearer a new job and (2) the fact that jobs are no longer for life, or even for next year. So many people avoid these decisions and jump in their cars. Especially if that car comes with the job.
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>May be I'm just a fussy pink fluiffy dice though, but i can't stand the idea of wasted fuel or car journeys
Martin, I appreciate your point of view. I'm not sure where you live, but in the sunny delights of Birmingham, it would take me about 1 hour to travel 10 miles if I worked in the city centre, and I am sure that this is the same for many urban commuters. It would actually take me longer than 1 hour if I used public transport.
In that time, I can travel 42 miles to Nottingham! Whilst neither journey would be particular good for my car, I would have thought that the second option would be less wear and tear on the brakes, clutch etc, although perhaps more in fuel?
Either way, retiring at the age of 30 following a big lottery win would take all these worries away.....
TT
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I agree with you smokie - the insecurity of modern employment means we're reluctant to move.
One problem we have here (Blackpool) is that my employer (no names) has three sites around the town, and can send us to any one of those sites. For instance, I can walk to work at the moment, but could easily be moved to a site ten miles away. Not far enough to relocate, but far enough to need a car and add to the congestion. Unnecessarily, since we're IT people and could do our job anywhere.
That sort of thing must go on all over the country.
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>>has three sites around the town, and can send us to any one of those sites.
If you´re not driving a company car, do check you have full business use on your car. Some policies are "to and from one permanent place of work" only.
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Was`nt there a letter in today`s paper about I.T. job losses due to employing Indian or Russian firms at a significant saving ? You are right of course , I.T. can be networked from anywhere , our help desk is miles away. As far as commuting goes though I have cycled the two miles to work for thirty four years , through hail rain sleet and snow. I just do it , don`t think twice about it. Been offed a few times as well. Worst was a freak gust of wind that blew me into the kerb and over the bars . Car behind didn`t even stop , and they worked at the same place as me.
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How far do people drive daily in order to get to work?
I believe there's been a similar question like this been asked before. I'll do a search later and post the link if I find it.
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This one guv?
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?v=i&t=93...2
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Spamcan61, yep that's the one. I'll amalgamate the two threads together to save repetitiveness.
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A few years ago, I was part of a bid to bring a new business to an area which suffered high-unemployment, and most peole commutted 20 miles or more to work. The council wanted to give us planning permission on condition that we employed locals. We persuaded them in the end that this was not enforceable in Law equal opps. & anti-discrimination, etc.); and that although we would endeveour to recruit locally and the Company would prefer & benefit from local employees, the jobs would be filled by the right people with the right skills. Guess what, even though the skills were available locally, the end result was that we had many people commuting to this business from 15 to 20 miles away, while the many locals who would have easily got these jobs continued to travel out!
I believe there\'s been a similar question like this been asked before. I\'ll do a search later and post the link if I find it.
DD: Now that Spamcan has found the link, how about joining the two together and naming the thread \"Driving to Work, Vol I\" or simialr?
Done DD.
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Some vaccinations will need be paid for if are going abroad to certain areas. You will need to book an appointment at a private clinic, where they have trained health advisors who can make sure that you get the protection you require for your trip.
Edited by Avant on 30/04/2020 at 00:23
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Oh dear - reviving a 17 year old thread to post an obvious spam link about something as important as the current pandemic with a fake vaccine. That's really low.
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Oh dear - reviving a 17 year old thread to post an obvious spam link about something as important as the current pandemic with a fake vaccine. That's really low.
Can't see it is anything to do with the current situation - just general vaccinations when going to certain countries abroad.
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