Spinoff - Who else is grateful for their short commute?

Not as short as yours (which is AWESOME btw) but dh is about 7 easy miles from home. So he comes home for lunch each day, can run home to meet a repairman, or take his lunch hour late to be home with the kids if needed.

Shortest commute ever for either of us!

Dh drives me to work in the morning, and a friend/co-worker gives me a ride after work, so I don't personally have to worry about driving, traffic, etc. But I do love that my job is only about a five minute drive and that I can walk to or from work if necessary.

I am done work at 3 pm and I love being home with my feet up and glass of red wine in my hand by 3:15pm. 

Waving my hand...5 minutes to get to work.

Oh my goodness - me. Just a couple miles and takes 10-15 minutes if traffic isn't appalling. Before this I had a nightmare commute of 90 minutes each way and I felt like I got my whole life back. Amazing.

Love it now! But had to move to get it.

My commute is 1.5 miles and my younger DD's school is on the way. I love being so close to home. I've done the commute where you sit in traffic for an hour. No thanks.

Have had many long commutes in the past. Sold my house last fall to be closer to DD's (charter) school. That previous commute was really hard.

Right now we're in a rental 1.5 miles from her school. I can get her there in 5 minutes and then be to work in 10-15. So thankful.

Absolutely. I'm doing substitute teaching now to make money while looking for a "real" job. (that's a joke by the way...so don't jump on me...   ) -- I mostly sub at two schools, one that's about a 15 minute drive (which is fine, no complaints), but the other one is three blocks. lol. When I'm subbing there I always walk home with my neighbor who teaches there and we end up talking in front of my house for longer than it took us to actually walk home. lol

My dh has always had a good commute. When my kids were little he first worked for the Department of Agriculture in downtown DC. We were renting and lived about three blocks from the subway. He took that in, and it was only a few stops. There were rarely any problems, unlike today when we seem to have unending Metro problems here. ugh. 

Anyway, I was a SAHM and we only had one car which I kept during the day since dh took the metro. Well then he was transferred to a satellite office right here in Virginia, just a quick drive south of us. He tried public transportation -- two trains and a bus, 55 minutes IF everything was on time. Then he drove it. Five minutes door to door. No brainer, we bought a used car. This was so nice because he could come home if there was an event at ds's school, and he was always home for dinner so we could all eat together. 

Then he got a job at the State Department, in downtown DC. But fortunately State is very close to the Virginia edge of DC, so all he has to do is drive across the bridge and he's there. So it's maybe 15 minutes. He has a free parking space so taking public transportation is SO not worth it. By the time he leaves work now the worst of rush hour is over so he's hardly ever stuck in something. 

We could have bought a house twice the size of this one for what we paid for it, but it would have been somewhere out west. Out in "Narnia" as my ds says. lol. Then dh would have had to sit in stop and go traffic twice every day. A smaller house so close to DC is SO much better for him. 

Thankfully my commute is short. I don't have to get on the freeway if I don't want to. It takes about 10 minutes to get to work and 5 minutes to get home. Which is perfect for me.

Dh has always had a long commute. I think the shortest he has ever had was 20 minutes. The worst was an hour and half to 2 hours on the ends of 12 hour shifts. His new job will end up being between 30 minutes and an hour on country roads depending on where we end up buying a house. They just don't build rocket sights near populated areas.

I never had a long commute when I worked outside my home - maybe 10 minutes. I don't think I could stand it. I really feel for all those folks who are stuck on a highway for hours a day. To me, no job is worth it.
Now, I just walk down the stairs from my bedroom. Easiest commute I've every had!

Depending on if I hit the school bus at the stop it can take from 7 to 12 minutes from door to desk. I love it!!

I have a SUPER short commute - my cake kitchen is in my basement. So I just have to walk downstairs.

What I hate, is that if I don't make a list and forget to pick up XX at the grocery store, then I have to leave to go get it....

Me!!! Some days my commute is just downstairs from bedroom to kitchen/ family room. 3 mornings a week it's less than 8 mins.

DH works 6 miles from home, but our mothers both have him beat. My mom lives 5 blocks from her workplace and my MIL lives only 3 blocks from hers.

Oh, and I have a friend who lives in an apartment in the same building as the doctor's office she works in. The only people I have ever known who could beat her by a tiny bit are the ones with their own businesses who own their building and live upstairs and have their business downstairs.