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Post by Moose on Mar 6, 2013 18:36:22 GMT
Used to take me three hour round trip to get to school. I didn't mind.
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Post by Mari on Mar 6, 2013 20:05:55 GMT
It took me 6 hours to get to university and back when I studied to be a teacher. Thankfully I only had to go to school two days a week  |
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Post by tangent on Mar 6, 2013 21:49:02 GMT
In the 1980s or so, I read that a business manager worked in London and lived in Hull, 210 miles away. The train journey probably took 4 hours or even 5 hours and cost £3000 a year. But in return he enjoyed a 5-bedroom house for the price of a skimpy 3-bedroom house he would have been able to buy in the Thames Valley (the river basin associated with London). I suspect the cost of the rail journey would not make that possible today.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2013 8:30:01 GMT
My problem with that would probably by that I'd be spending too much time away from my family if I had such a long journey every day. You'd probably have to get up at 3 or 4 a.m. and you'd come back around 8 p.m. and would have to go to bed very early.
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Post by tangent on Mar 7, 2013 9:57:17 GMT
Yes, that would be my objection. He spent a lot of time working on the train and I suspect he had the sort of job where he would have been working until 8pm in the evening anyway. But I agree it's not much of a life.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2013 10:25:46 GMT
Exactly. Maybe if someone doesn't have a partner or a family that might be alright for a while. But I'd rather live in a smaller flat than spend half of my life on trains.
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Post by Shake on Mar 8, 2013 0:44:41 GMT
My problem with that would probably by that I'd be spending too much time away from my family if I had such a long journey every day. You'd probably have to get up at 3 or 4 a.m. and you'd come back around 8 p.m. and would have to go to bed very early. Exactly. There are people doing this sort of thing in the greater NYC area, from what I understand. Folks living in CT, northern NJ, even other downstate NY towns and commuting to the city. Too much travel time just isn't worth it. No time to spend with friends, family, or enjoying your home. |
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 8, 2013 8:39:04 GMT
When I first moved to Reading, there was a couple renting the room upstairs from me. They owned a house in the country, about another 2 hours away. They would go to work Monday morning, then back to where I was each day until Friday, when they would go home again in the evening and spend the weekend in their proper house. They were making such a silly, disproportionate amount of money by working in London that it seemed to be worthwhile, although I can barely stand to go in and out of London a few times in a year! Someone pointed out a while ago that if cattle being transported were subjected to the cramped conditions and temperatures that commuters put up with, the people organising it would be breaking many laws of ill-treatment!  |
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Post by tangent on Mar 8, 2013 11:22:11 GMT
My problem with that would probably by that I'd be spending too much time away from my family if I had such a long journey every day. You'd probably have to get up at 3 or 4 a.m. and you'd come back around 8 p.m. and would have to go to bed very early. Exactly. There are people doing this sort of thing in the greater NYC area, from what I understand. Folks living in CT, northern NJ, even other downstate NY towns and commuting to the city. Too much travel time just isn't worth it. No time to spend with friends, family, or enjoying your home. Are they commuting by train or by car? If the conditions are good, you can get a lot of work done on a train and even if they are not you can spend useful time reading a paper or a book or catching up with emails. I used to catch a train into Manchester and looked forward to the 25 minutes to myself while I read a newspaper. (I also had 40 minutes walking to and from the station which was good exercise. |
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Post by Mari on Mar 8, 2013 12:12:50 GMT
I also like train rides a lot, but for this job I chose not to live too far away from work. Though I can work well in a train, in the end not being dependent on train tables feels better and more relaxed.
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Post by Shake on Mar 13, 2013 5:59:35 GMT
Exactly. There are people doing this sort of thing in the greater NYC area, from what I understand. Folks living in CT, northern NJ, even other downstate NY towns and commuting to the city. Too much travel time just isn't worth it. No time to spend with friends, family, or enjoying your home. Are they commuting by train or by car? If the conditions are good, you can get a lot of work done on a train and even if they are not you can spend useful time reading a paper or a book or catching up with emails. I used to catch a train into Manchester and looked forward to the 25 minutes to myself while I read a newspaper. (I also had 40 minutes walking to and from the station which was good exercise. Some by car, some by train, and I think, some by both. |
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