On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Paul Corfield wrote:

What are the totals for other group posters just so we can see if people
typically do have long or short trip times?

20 minutes each way by bike. About the same by tube, if i'm being lazy.

In a few weeks, i'm moving, and will have a slightly longer ride and a
slightly quicker tube trip.

One of the points in the article is that people with better qualifications
have longer commutes - basically, a nice way of saying that middle-class
people choose to live in the suburbs or the country and endure Odyssean
journeys to work, and working-class people live in the actual city, near
where they work. It's probably these people who are dragging the average
down. Why it's the more highly educated sector of society acts in such an
utterly boneheaded manner, i have no idea!

tom

--
One horse laugh is worth a thousand syllogisms. -- H. L. Mencken

On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 10:51:30 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

Why it's the more highly educated sector of society acts in such an
utterly boneheaded manner, i have no idea!

It's not necessarily utterly boneheaded. I gave up a short commute
from New Malden to Green Park (probably around 50 minutes including a
walk from Victoria) for a longer one from Fleet (1h20m "up" and
probably 5-10 minutes longer "down", and both including a walk between
Waterloo and Green Park). All for good lifestyle reasons - I could
afford to buy somewhere in the Royal Borough, but not where I wanted
to be, and living in the city was beginning to get me down, so a move
out of town did me good.

However, I did make sure it was an easy commute and on a good line, so
it doesn't inconvenience me too much. The worst thing is I can't
easily get to work before 8.00 if I'm busy, as I much prefer starting
early to working late.

And I get time to read, which I didn't before.

However, how those people with spectacularly long and/or messy
commutes manage it is beyond me. I know moving house is expensive and
changing job not necessarily easy, but surely quality of life is worth
something.