• I've certainly never done any crazy distance commutes (one of my wife's cousins used to commute daily in the UK from Kent to Birmingham - not far off 200 miles each way), but I've also never had a job within walking distance. I've lived and worked in London, meaning commutes of about an hour each way. I've lived outside London and commuted in, and that's ended up about an hour and a half each way. Currently, I live and work outside any major cities, and my commute of about 15 miles takes about half an hour.

    All this said, the company I work for has a lot of benefits for me, many of which I didn't know about when I first joined. My decision of whether the commute was worthwhile was largely based on normal criteria like salary and proximity of similar comparable jobs. Now, I'd have to include much more subjective things too, such as how much it's worth to work for a company that treats me well, or is as flexible as this one is with regard to remote working, school holidays, domestic emergencies and so on. As a result, if I had to move house, I'd be happy to increase my commute by an hour each way to stay working where I do, but would probably reject a new job offer somewhere else that involved an hour and a half journey.

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