A long drive to work I would consider anything longer than 1 hour.
I work in a different city and need 1 hour under good conditions. Sucks to be honest but I only do it once a week.
Used to be about 2 hours by bike from Copenhagen to Roskilde when I went to school and 1 hour by bike when I went to work, currently I’m jobless, so I just sit at home all day and read reddit.
15 minutes walk to the train station + 30 minutes train ride + 10 minutes walk to my work.
Anything longer than that is too much for me to do everyday I would say
It’s a seven minute walk door to door.
I don’t really think there’s much consensus in what’s considered a long drive. It’s quite subjective and depends a lot on where you live in Sweden.
It’s a 40-45m drive (20km from one side of the city to the other). So about 1-1,5h & 40km per working day.
10 mins on an e scooter which is my only realistic option.
Alternatively ,2.5 km in Athens in a non metro connected area of the city center means:
– 30+ minutes walking up steep hills, on destroyed sidewalks, next to speeding cars and crossing roads at my own peril. Not ideal in 30+ degree temps after April.
– 20+ minutes with a motorcycle as most roads are too narrow to filter traffic.
– Up to 35 minutes with a car due to constant traffic that’s only made tragically worse during rush hour. Of course this doesnt factor in parking, as the office doesn’t have any, nor do the roads within 20 mins walking distance from the office.
– 60-75 mins with a bus and a minimum of 1 change, also factoring in that buses are chronically late, packed,.or don’t come at all.
So I hop on my scooter, put on my motorcycle gear, and hope I’m not pushed off the road by one of the speeding, texting drivers, or down go flying after I hit one of the countless potholes on the shitty roads that we way overpay in taxes for.
30 minutes drive twice a week. Else working from home
5 km bike ride, each way.
A long ride on bike would probably be more than 10-15 km for most people. But it really depends on your level of fitness and how fancy of a bike you have. Oh, or if you have an e-bike.
In car…I think more than 45-ish minutes.
About 45 door-to-door, I live about 10 minutes’ walk from the metro, so I walk there and then ride the metro, with one transfer to a station that’s a few minutes’ walk from work.
In Stockholm, that is not a bad commute. Especially since there’s only one transfer, and it’s metro-to-metro.
From home in the morning, 10min via car to the train station > 1h 30min via train > 10min via city bike to the airport.
Same route back home in the evening, 3x a week.
On average I’m pretty sure this is classified as a long commute, and some people might call me crazy, but I love the it. I love travelling. I get to have some car time, chill train ride where I can eat and do work, and some biking as a small exercise.
I can get to work in 12 minutes on foot. I like my little morning walk to work so I can prepare myself mentally.
Anything over 15-20 minutes by car/public transport is long in my city. I do not live in the capital tho.
I wfh but if I go to the office (about once a fortnight) it’s bus, train, walk that takes me about 1hr15 each way.
I would say a drive longer than about 40 mins each way would be considered long if you had to do it 5 days a week.
Here’s a Canada comparison.
2 hour commute (there & back) 3 days a week. About a 75km one-way trip.
My job pre-covid was a 4 hour daily commute 5 days a week so this is great by comparison. The price of owning real estate as a late millennial.
Either a 10-15 minute drive or 25 minute ride on an electric bike. Sometimes going by car can take a lot longer due to traffic from the highway backing up onto the country road I take.
A long drive depends. As a commute I’d say around 45 minutes. I sometimes have to drive to our other office which is a 1h 15 mins drive and around the 45 minute mark I’m continously going *are we there yet*.
I’m a seafarer, so worldwide commute if you can call it that. I just join/leave wherever the ship is located.
I’ve mustered in East Coast mainland US, Alaska and departed from cities in Australia.
Currently it’s mostly between cities in Northern Europe.
With my bike is approximately 30 minutes including walking from the parking area to the office, public transit (bus and train) is usually 25-35 minutes. I once used a car from the company for a week but that was minimum 30 minutes and worst more than 60 minutes due to congestion and searching for a parking lot in my neighborhood. That’s close to quick walking (1.5h) but less reliable.
When I take the bus I leave the house at about 6.05 to drive to the park and ride to get the 6.25 bus and I arrive in the office usually around 8-8.15. If I drive all the way to work then I can usually leave the house a bit later around 6.30.
Thankfully I wfh the majority of the time so only have to do this every few weeks. It’s still a really long journey though, basically one side of the country to the other.
20 minute walk to school, but I take 45 mins cuase I walk via mates houses and walk slowly etc
My daily commute is 1.5 hrs on average and it involves two bus rides. I do this 5 days a week. Faster routes don’t exist (there is no direct bus from home to work) and I don’t drive.
45 minutes by bike, or 20-25 minutes by car. If it’s rush hour it’s 35-45 minutes by car. Public transport takes around 50 minutes.
Boring 40 min bus ride with one connection in the middle.
Bed, loo, front room, kitchen, loop many times daily. I’m Disabled.
I drive 15 km on freeway which takes me 18 minutes door to door or I take the 9 km bus route through the city which would take me 60 minutes. I’d like to say I take the bus but man, an hour each way is too long to commute.
7 minutes walk to the stop, 25 minutes ride in trolley, 8 minutes walk to job. Return is the same reversed, but 30-35 minutes ride due to more traffic (I work 7-15).
It’s a 30 minute drive on a good day, but that can easily become an hour on bad days.
Door to door 5 minutes by car or 8-10 by bicycle if there’s not too much snow and the wind favors me.
Twice a week I get into my car and drive 15 minutes to my office.
Now its about an hours drive, soon it’ll be around 20 ish minute.
Am a carpenter so my commute varies
Around 25 minutes by metro
I live in the Paris’ area where a long commute is considered different from the rest of the country. A long commute here would be something 1 hour and a half
Around 2 minute from my bedroom to the bathroom then to the room where I work from home. A long commute is when I get bathroom traffic but that’s rare.
I used to drive for 10 minutes, then take a ferry for 25 minutes to work.
Now I drive for 3 minutes, or walk 15. Much better.
About five minutes on foot, including going to toilet, and making coffee in kitchen. A total length of ~25 metres.
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I get on my bike and am at work 20 minutes later.
A long drive to work I would consider anything longer than 1 hour.
I work in a different city and need 1 hour under good conditions. Sucks to be honest but I only do it once a week.
Used to be about 2 hours by bike from Copenhagen to Roskilde when I went to school and 1 hour by bike when I went to work, currently I’m jobless, so I just sit at home all day and read reddit.
15 minutes walk to the train station + 30 minutes train ride + 10 minutes walk to my work.
Anything longer than that is too much for me to do everyday I would say
It’s a seven minute walk door to door.
I don’t really think there’s much consensus in what’s considered a long drive. It’s quite subjective and depends a lot on where you live in Sweden.
It’s a 40-45m drive (20km from one side of the city to the other). So about 1-1,5h & 40km per working day.
10 mins on an e scooter which is my only realistic option.
Alternatively ,2.5 km in Athens in a non metro connected area of the city center means:
– 30+ minutes walking up steep hills, on destroyed sidewalks, next to speeding cars and crossing roads at my own peril. Not ideal in 30+ degree temps after April.
– 20+ minutes with a motorcycle as most roads are too narrow to filter traffic.
– Up to 35 minutes with a car due to constant traffic that’s only made tragically worse during rush hour. Of course this doesnt factor in parking, as the office doesn’t have any, nor do the roads within 20 mins walking distance from the office.
– 60-75 mins with a bus and a minimum of 1 change, also factoring in that buses are chronically late, packed,.or don’t come at all.
So I hop on my scooter, put on my motorcycle gear, and hope I’m not pushed off the road by one of the speeding, texting drivers, or down go flying after I hit one of the countless potholes on the shitty roads that we way overpay in taxes for.
30 minutes drive twice a week. Else working from home
5 km bike ride, each way.
A long ride on bike would probably be more than 10-15 km for most people. But it really depends on your level of fitness and how fancy of a bike you have. Oh, or if you have an e-bike.
In car…I think more than 45-ish minutes.
About 45 door-to-door, I live about 10 minutes’ walk from the metro, so I walk there and then ride the metro, with one transfer to a station that’s a few minutes’ walk from work.
In Stockholm, that is not a bad commute. Especially since there’s only one transfer, and it’s metro-to-metro.
From home in the morning, 10min via car to the train station > 1h 30min via train > 10min via city bike to the airport.
Same route back home in the evening, 3x a week.
On average I’m pretty sure this is classified as a long commute, and some people might call me crazy, but I love the it. I love travelling. I get to have some car time, chill train ride where I can eat and do work, and some biking as a small exercise.
I can get to work in 12 minutes on foot. I like my little morning walk to work so I can prepare myself mentally.
Anything over 15-20 minutes by car/public transport is long in my city. I do not live in the capital tho.
I wfh but if I go to the office (about once a fortnight) it’s bus, train, walk that takes me about 1hr15 each way.
I would say a drive longer than about 40 mins each way would be considered long if you had to do it 5 days a week.
Here’s a Canada comparison.
2 hour commute (there & back) 3 days a week. About a 75km one-way trip.
My job pre-covid was a 4 hour daily commute 5 days a week so this is great by comparison. The price of owning real estate as a late millennial.
Either a 10-15 minute drive or 25 minute ride on an electric bike. Sometimes going by car can take a lot longer due to traffic from the highway backing up onto the country road I take.
A long drive depends. As a commute I’d say around 45 minutes. I sometimes have to drive to our other office which is a 1h 15 mins drive and around the 45 minute mark I’m continously going *are we there yet*.
I’m a seafarer, so worldwide commute if you can call it that. I just join/leave wherever the ship is located.
I’ve mustered in East Coast mainland US, Alaska and departed from cities in Australia.
Currently it’s mostly between cities in Northern Europe.
With my bike is approximately 30 minutes including walking from the parking area to the office, public transit (bus and train) is usually 25-35 minutes. I once used a car from the company for a week but that was minimum 30 minutes and worst more than 60 minutes due to congestion and searching for a parking lot in my neighborhood. That’s close to quick walking (1.5h) but less reliable.
When I take the bus I leave the house at about 6.05 to drive to the park and ride to get the 6.25 bus and I arrive in the office usually around 8-8.15. If I drive all the way to work then I can usually leave the house a bit later around 6.30.
Thankfully I wfh the majority of the time so only have to do this every few weeks. It’s still a really long journey though, basically one side of the country to the other.
20 minute walk to school, but I take 45 mins cuase I walk via mates houses and walk slowly etc
My daily commute is 1.5 hrs on average and it involves two bus rides. I do this 5 days a week. Faster routes don’t exist (there is no direct bus from home to work) and I don’t drive.
45 minutes by bike, or 20-25 minutes by car. If it’s rush hour it’s 35-45 minutes by car. Public transport takes around 50 minutes.
Boring 40 min bus ride with one connection in the middle.
Bed, loo, front room, kitchen, loop many times daily. I’m Disabled.
I drive 15 km on freeway which takes me 18 minutes door to door or I take the 9 km bus route through the city which would take me 60 minutes. I’d like to say I take the bus but man, an hour each way is too long to commute.
7 minutes walk to the stop, 25 minutes ride in trolley, 8 minutes walk to job. Return is the same reversed, but 30-35 minutes ride due to more traffic (I work 7-15).
It’s a 30 minute drive on a good day, but that can easily become an hour on bad days.
Door to door 5 minutes by car or 8-10 by bicycle if there’s not too much snow and the wind favors me.
Twice a week I get into my car and drive 15 minutes to my office.
Now its about an hours drive, soon it’ll be around 20 ish minute.
Am a carpenter so my commute varies
Around 25 minutes by metro
I live in the Paris’ area where a long commute is considered different from the rest of the country. A long commute here would be something 1 hour and a half
Around 2 minute from my bedroom to the bathroom then to the room where I work from home. A long commute is when I get bathroom traffic but that’s rare.
I used to drive for 10 minutes, then take a ferry for 25 minutes to work.
Now I drive for 3 minutes, or walk 15. Much better.
About five minutes on foot, including going to toilet, and making coffee in kitchen. A total length of ~25 metres.