Do people live further away than previously?

[Thankyou4calling]

Please leave in the lounge mods.

It just feels as if no one lives near where they work these days.

It’s purely anecdotal but I even know of people on NMW who are travelling an hour.

Is this the case and if so why?

[PositronicRay]

Thankyou4calling said:

Please leave in the lounge mods.

It just feels as if no one lives near where they work these days.

It’s purely anecdotal but I even know of people on NMW who are travelling an hour.

Is this the case and if so why?

What's NMW?

[eltawater]

Since moving house almost a decade ago, I've worked in 3 different locations, in different directions from home and typically between 25-40 miles away.

My home town is not a hotbed of technology companies so opportunities are fairly limited. I am however surrounded by much larger towns which do have those opportunities.

If I move closer to one of those towns, not only do my housing costs go up but I also move further away from the other employment centres which makes it more difficult to switch to jobs there.

[ashleyman]

At my office, around 5 out of 21 don't walk to work. Everyone else lives within a 30 minute walk of the office and this is Fulham/Hammersmith way.

The 5 take a mix of car, motorbike or train. My journey is 50 minutes by motorbike, the longest is 1hr 30 by car.

[greygoose]

PositronicRay said:

Thankyou4calling said:

Please leave in the lounge mods.

It just feels as if no one lives near where they work these days.

It’s purely anecdotal but I even know of people on NMW who are travelling an hour.

Is this the case and if so why?

What's NMW?

National Minimum Wage?

[Hoofy]

PositronicRay said:

Thankyou4calling said:

Please leave in the lounge mods.

It just feels as if no one lives near where they work these days.

It’s purely anecdotal but I even know of people on NMW who are travelling an hour.

Is this the case and if so why?

What's NMW?

£8.21 an hour.

[alorotom]

I'm working in west Yorkshire at the moment. They just moved offices, by approx 2miles. The uproar from staff who live on the doorstep (within 8miles) was amazing. They still struggle to get to the office before me and I come down from Newcastle!

[TorqueR]

I do at least 50 miles per day, just commuting to/from work. I’ll often do more if I visit clients during the day.

While it would be nice to work closer to home, it only takes (on average) 45 minutes to travel each way.

[Chlorothalonil]

Yes.

Incidentally, my commute is a 280 mile round trip.

[Saleen836]

I could work for local companies that have local work (15-30min commute each way),but I choose to work for a South Coast company who treat me better and pay a lot better, this involves a commute of 45-75min each way.
As a previous poster, I could move closer but living costs would be a lot more.

[Sheepshanks]

alorotom said:

I'm working in west Yorkshire at the moment. They just moved offices, by approx 2miles. The uproar from staff who live on the doorstep (within 8miles) was amazing. They still struggle to get to the office before me and I come down from Newcastle!

Often short commutes take time that's out of all proportion to the distance. I live 5 miles outside Chester but if I tried to do at at 8AM it can take an hour.

The traffic is busy in both directons - be far less of it if everyone was allocated a job near home!

Edited by Sheepshanks on Sunday 15th December 18:18

[RammyMP]

I’m on a 220 mile commute at the moment, it takes 4 hours each way. It’s the furthest I’ve ever done, the previous project was only a 50 mile commute.

[talksthetorque]

Having to travel on the M62 every so often I can only assume that everyone who lives in Manchester works in Leeds or Liverpool - and vice versa.
I work from home half the time and travel to customer's sites the other half - travel time is paid but anything over an hour and a half home and I'm in a hotel for the evening.


I live 20 minutes from a station that is 90 minutes to Kings Cross.
Some folk in my village do it two or three times a week - in their own time.
I've got no idea how people do that st every day.

10k for the season ticket. That's £800 a month in Mortgage payments - £200k on the house price. Plus if you live 1 hour from work instead of two that's 10 hours a week of your life back.

[Jasandjules]

I work from home.. Well, 95% of the time.....

[Cantaloupe]

I'm led to understand my great-gran [ born c 1890 ] never travelled more than 40 miles from her home in her entire life.
Her extended family all lived within a few miles.


Travel broadens the mind ?
, I know folk who have travelled all over the world, sadly they are still pig ignorant though

[CooperD]

I do a daily commute of around 110 miles depending on which route I take. Have been doing this journey for just under 14 years now. Got 3 years until I retire or possibly get another job closer to home. Takes me about an hour and 10 minutes each way depending on the traffic and roadworks.

[MikeM6]

My commute is either non existent (I work from home a couple of days per week) or 120 to 140 mile round trip depending on which office I visit. I use rental cars through work for convenience, but it is tiring spending all that in traffic.

[Hoofy]

I think the job centre suggest people apply to jobs that are up to 1.5 hours' commute away. This may well be a blanket rule(?) irrespective of the salary, sadly.

[paulguitar]

I work 3250 miles from home!

[ColinM50]

Retired now, best thing I ever did, but my last job was in Toulouse and I live near Cambridge so c750 miles but to be honest I didn't do it every day. Out on Monday back the next Thursday. Over 500 flights on Ryanair and only two delays (not their fault) Brilliant if miserable lot.