[Cluelessboy]

I have to say coming from someone who has worked downtown for the past 7 years, i recently took on another job that is NOT DOWNTOWN and i have to say its such a massive relief! I sure dont miss downtown at all.

Downtown was good at first then it became ok, then as time passed it got more and more aggravating. Id get stressed out just getting home from work. I just couldnt take anymore of the congestion and 45min commutes to work and another 1hr from work five days a week. And thats on a normal day! Winters is when i really dreaded the commute as the commute doubles. Life is too short to be wasting that much time sitting in traffic.

It took me almost half hour everyday just to get out of downtown! Then another half hour to get home! Stop n go traffic all the way through.

Even the shuttle bus i couldnt stand 5 days a week, half of the time it was late or didnt show or itd be packed and have to stand or in the summers it would smell like a saskatchewan out house. So since i couldnt stand driving to work 5 days a week or busing t 5 days a week id split it abkut 60/40 driving.

Not just that but its so nice not having to wait or deal with packed or slow or malfunctioning elevators, walking blocks to your car, waiting 20mins to get a coffee. My old employer was too cheap to get properly working elevators as some times we would wait upwards of 10mins! Sometimes it wouldnt even come. Then the elevators would get so packed, that 15 sec ride becomes a 6min ride as you literally have to stop on every floor.

My new job is a 9km 10min drive from home (15mins tops during rush hour) and i only have to deal with rush hour in the morning. For the time it takes me to get home, working downtown it took me that long to walk to my car 2 blocks away and get out the parkade. Then id enter the warzone.

I have to say that it would take a lot to get me back downtown. I dont think i could go back.