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How long does it take you to get to work and back? :( 
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At the moment it's about 20 minutes.
Doing the film stuff, 90 mins each way was normal, and the worst was the 6 weeks we spent setting up at an office near the Nags Head in Nirth London. If I wasn't on the M40 at 6.30am at Maidenhead, I'd be late for the start of the day at 8.30am.
I much prefer my present drive, along the coast by the beach for much of it.

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Between 15 and 20 minutes for me depending on the traffic. Unfortunately, the school run benefit in the summer is negated by the increased holiday traffic as I have to use the main route to the south west to get home. Some bank holidays can see it rise to 30 to 45 mins.

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20min walk.
Which is better than the last job (20min cycle) longer than the one before that (15min walk) and considerably longer than my first proper London job (3min walk)

I really can't complain. I get to mix my route up depending on my mood and the weather, and on the way home I pass a number of offices my friends work at, a couple of supermarkets, pretty much all my preferred local pubs, and a good number of favoured takeaways. Ideal.

I wouldn't have it any other way. 8-)


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If I take the train (free) it's ~32 minutes.
If I drive in the winter it takes ~30 minutes, if I drive in the summer it takes ~1h45, if I drive anytime of year in the early morning I can do it in ~15 minutes...

If it snows or has rained heavily then the trains stop working and roads get closed - so no work :P


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Currently a 50 minute drive each way on a normal day worst 4 hours :roll:
When I'm working in London 2 hours plus each way on a good day and on a bad day .. lets not talk about it !

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currently about 25 minutes each way.

Average, when I was in the UK was about 2 hours each way. The worst was Coventry during a big exhibition in Birmingham, I ended up doing about 4.5 hours each way, with about 14 hours in the office on the longest day!

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About half an hour (from East London into the dead-centre of town). Half the olympics appears to be getting set up right outside the office though, so prepare to feel sorry for me at the end of the month :(


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Depending on which site I'm at it takes between 20 minutes and 90 minutes each way, which is not as bad as the time I was travelling from Manchester to Hull and back every day.

In fairness, the £75 per hour I was earning helped a lot... ;)

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Saturday for example. Helideck to house was 10 1/2 hours.

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Saturday for example. Helideck to house was 10 1/2 hours.


I think it's safe to say you have quite an exceptional commute ;)

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40 minutes walk each way, and I've got some stride on me* :lol:

* Does mean nodding and saying hello to tens of people every morning, drives me up the wall, it's like fcuking Groundhog Day :cry:

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40 minutes walk each way, and I've got some stride on me* :lol:

* Does mean nodding and saying hello to tens of people every morning, drives me up the wall, it's like fcuking Groundhog Day :cry:


does the vodka beer belly help keep your momentum going in a "ripple" effect? :lol:

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40 minutes walk each way, and I've got some stride on me* :lol:

* Does mean nodding and saying hello to tens of people every morning, drives me up the wall, it's like fcuking Groundhog Day :cry:


does the vodka beer belly help keep your momentum going in a "ripple" effect? :lol:


Get your insults right, it's a Coke belly!

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I'm sure Caz does something silly.


I allow 15 minutes to get to the station and park up then it's an hour and a half each way as long as all 3 trains are running on time.

Takes me about 10 minutes to get to the car and get home at the end of the day.

3 1/2 hours per day.

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That'a a long time for a daily commute.

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