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Originally Posted by _Q_
As for a 30 minute commute to work and then 50 minutes back being alright. Sit down and calculate it. That's almost a full working day you're losing per week just on sitting in your car in traffic. Or to put a monetary value on it, take your hourly wage and calculate how much dollar value you are wasting on sitting in your car every day. It's a waste of time.
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My commute downtown would be approx. the same if not longer. I did not like the communities that were closer to where I work when I was looking for my house (marlbourgh area, lol) and where I live is close to friends and family. I am a 5-10 min drive (10-20 min bike ride) from my parents and my girlfriends parents and the vast majority of my friends. I will gladly sacrifice the commute time for the other benefits of the community I live in.
It is the sad truth that for someone starting out, the price of real estate pushes people to the periphery of the city to make it affordable without maxing out your borrowing potential or downsizing to an apartment style condo.
Also the people who walk or take transit into downtown also just as routinely underestimate their commute as the people from Airdrie. "Its only a 10 min. bus ride" often doesn't take into account the 10 min wait at the bus stop and the 5 min walk at each side of the trip.