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4 hours a day driving is not "a little on the high end", you are 4x the average american (~50 minutes round trip). Spending 4 hours to work 8 hours is crazy...

• pc86 11y ago
  The longest commute I ever had was open highway, about 40 miles in each direction. Rush hour was not an issue as I was just going between two small towns. It was awful. Sure, I got to listen to ~90 minutes of podcasts or Audible each day, but even still that's not productive time. All it took was one accident on the highway and my day just went from 9.5 hours to 12. Needless to say, my next job (and current) is about 4 miles away from my house and my quality of life has gone up exponentially, even though when I was doing it I did not mind the commute much. You could double my salary and I don't think I would even consider a 2 hour one-way commute.