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Aranarth wrote:... and my last 58mile 1 hour commute to work...
Even driving a Cruze Diesel and averaging 42mpg a tank for the commute it was costing up to $2500/yr in gas.
Aranarth wrote:Today is my last day at GE aviation, and my last 58mile 1 hour commute to work...
Even driving a Cruze Diesel and averaging 42mpg a tank for the commute it was costing up to $2500/yr in gas.
GE is a great place work but Capgemini who I was contracted through sucks as a company.
I'm going to be working for a small manufacturing company in Big Rapids instead which is only 12 miles away from home.
And I can drop my kids off at school on the way.
The wife is ECSTATIC!
layerup wrote:Aranarth wrote:... and my last 58mile 1 hour commute to work...
Even driving a Cruze Diesel and averaging 42mpg a tank for the commute it was costing up to $2500/yr in gas.
Man, I am living in the wrong part of the country... I live 13 miles from work, spend over an hour each way on an interstate commute....
toastie wrote:Congratulations, and enjoy all the extra time you'll have not commuting.
(I have a 90 minute commute each way, by train)
defaultluser wrote:But in exchange, you don't have to drive 3+ hours just to find big city entertainment. Big Rapids is an hour outside of Grand Rapids (pretty small city), and almost four hours away from Chicago.
The roads aren't always choked with traffic, no matter where you live. And when you're not commuting, I'm guessing you're usually within 15-30 minutes of ...anything?
layerup wrote:I LOVE the Puget Sound area and would also love to live there, but even as an outsider I've seen how bad the commutes are. Not great on the interstates, plus it's not flat like Chicagoland, so you end up with more choke points. The area desperately needs some improved public transit to/from the suburbs.Completely fair point, but I don't know how relevant this is to me. Traffic in the Puget Sound region begins about 3:30am every day, and ends about 9:00pm each evening. Between those times, you are looking at considerable delays. So while I don't have to drive 150 miles to get to the big city, I still have to drive 1.5-2 hours each way to reach the big city.
layerup wrote:Aranarth wrote:... and my last 58mile 1 hour commute to work...
Even driving a Cruze Diesel and averaging 42mpg a tank for the commute it was costing up to $2500/yr in gas.
Man, I am living in the wrong part of the country... I live 13 miles from work, spend over an hour each way on an interstate commute....
morphine wrote:Congratulations!
As long as your monetary needs are fulfilled, time >>> money.
defaultluser wrote:layerup wrote:Aranarth wrote:... and my last 58mile 1 hour commute to work...
Even driving a Cruze Diesel and averaging 42mpg a tank for the commute it was costing up to $2500/yr in gas.
Man, I am living in the wrong part of the country... I live 13 miles from work, spend over an hour each way on an interstate commute....
But in exchange, you don't have to drive 3+ hours just to find big city entertainment. Big Rapids is an hour outside of Grand Rapids (pretty small city), and almost four hours away from Chicago.
The roads aren't always choked with traffic, no matter where you live. And when you're not commuting, I'm guessing you're usually within 15-30 minutes of ...anything?
Aranarth wrote:morphine wrote:As long as your monetary needs are fulfilled, time >>> money.
(it is also a 20% pay raise...)
just brew it! wrote:Aranarth wrote:morphine wrote:As long as your monetary needs are fulfilled, time >>> money.
(it is also a 20% pay raise...)
Well that's a double win then -- double congratulations!
NovusBogus wrote:I would totally live out in the boonies if I could still have a 10-20 minute commute. As it is I'm on the edge of suburban Minneapolis...there's farms ten minutes away, but they're *very expensive* farms due to being so close to the local tech-sector bubble and so not really an option for a single engineering salary.