This guy rented a one bedroom apartment on the Eastern Shore of MD when he works 90 minutes away near the DC beltway because that was the only affordable rent he find??? And his apartment is 1.5 x more than the mortgage payment on the family home in WV? Let's say his mortgage payment in WV is $600/mo, there are a ton of nice one bedroom apartments for rent in MD under $900/mo much closer to where he works than living on the Eastern Shore and contending with Bay Bridge and Route 50 traffic. Sounds like this guy didn't do his homework. Dining out as often as it sounds, drinking Starbucks even at a discount, paying Bay Bridge tolls everyday, and the huge amount he is spending on gas every month to drive to a job that can't be paying remotely close to six-figures doesn't leave but pennies to send back home. He'd net the same amount or more working at a convenience store or mopping floors back in WV. And his wife wants to stop working?

I would bet dollars to doughnuts that this guy doesn't buy a electric car.

For 31/2 yrs I have commuted from a small town where jobs are few to a large city. I leave home on Monday and return on Friday. I have been blessed to stay with my daughter and grandchildren on my nights away from home. But sleeping on an air mattress doesn't give a good night's rest for an over 60 yr. old. I drive over 450 miles per week and my car will turn over 100,000 miles this week. But I praise God that I have a job!

Okay, so why are they having another kid when they already have 3 and his job situation is less than ideal? And why is his wife leaving her job? It's hard for me to feel sorry for this guy... you make your bed you lie in it. That said, I'm glad he's working to feed his own kids rather than expecting the rest of us to feed them.

This was All Solved Long Ago and. Its just that Running Rotopower Motors on Hydrogen is To efficient.

Doesn't make anybody any Money...!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!$!

Not to Mention, Full scale 1/1 R.C cars smoke any Electric Hybrid on Efficiency, Crash resistance, power to Weight Ratio, and Speed.

Sorry back to the Drawing board ALL you overpriced overwqeight inefficient CLUNKERS...Lol

And this is a news story? I've been driving over an hour and a half one for 10 years. Does that make me a supercommuter? No it just means I made a choice to do it and I have to deal with the consequences, whatever they are. I'd like to live closer to my job but my kids have grown up in the school they are now in and I don't want to disrupt their lives. Maybe when they are out of school I will move but for now it's a CHOICE I made.

You go where the work is, if you want to work

You people talking about less than thirty minutes that is fine as long as you are satisfied with the pay and bennies, and not looking for anyone else to help you.

I once spent a year working in New Hampshire away from my permanent home and family in New Jersey. It turned out to be my best job loss ever. If this mega behavior ever becomes the middle class norm (like dual income families did) we truly will have become enslaved by our work.

Reminds me of the generations before us, I listened to stories about driving 10 to 12 hours away, staying in some flea-bag motel during the week, then returning home to the family. That was the "great depression" story I heard but, now I am hearing stories that are starting to remind me of just that. It's "de ja vue all over again" I would have to say.

I commute 130 miles every day. I either carpool with a friend or I take the train. There are no jobs near me that pay a decent wage, and my job offers good health insurance, which I need for my husband who is chronically ill and can't get insurance on his own.

This is the first time in my life that I have a job 5 minutes from my house. Best job so far and great neighborhood. I guess if you wait long enough all things just come together nicely.

A five minute commute on a bicylce. Cool like a fool in a swimming pool.

I've been driving 45 minutes each way for the past two years until I left my job, for reasons unrelated to commuting. The commuting wasn't as bad as I had expected it to be, as I could listen to the radio or a CD on the way.

My commute was MUCH worse when I lived on Long Island and commuted into NYC by train and subway. Ugh!

The awful thing about my commute is that I'm only 26 miles away from work, which really is nothing compared to these 90-mile-each-way ones, but that 26 miles takes anywhere from 50 minutes (with no traffic) to two hours. There's no direct route to work, it's all traffic lights and a drawbridge. An hour drive isn't so bad if only it was consistent, that's my biggest complaint. I can leave home at 8:30am and get in to work at 9:20...or I can leave at 8:30 and not get in until 9:45/9:50. And if the drawbridge is open or there's an accident, we're approaching the two hour range because there's just no way around it.

Just this morning, there was no traffic out so it should have only taken about 50 minutes... but I got every single light red. At one of the lights, I thought to myself "I feel like all I've been doing is sitting at red lights"... and I looked down at my clock and realized I had been on the road for 45 minutes already with 20 to go... no traffic should have been 50 minutes but those lights cost me 15 more, plus the stopping/going/sudden braking because Philly yellow lights last only like one second!

Vent over. :)

I like less than 30 minutes for quality of life. Yes, there will be traffic some days & that 30 minutes will balloon, but much more than that & you lose yourself to your work & commute. We've been blessed that where we've been stationed in the military, we could make that work - not living in base housing BTW.

In the Southwest-Four Corners region, towns are often 20-60 miles apart. Open country in between. Jobs are few and have low pay. It is not unusual for people to drive to a day job in Arizona and New Mexico, putting on 180-200 plus miles. Why? There is no work in their communities, especially on the Reservations. I often drive 180 plus miles daily to my job. With long term contracts, it is common for me to live and rent in another state, then drive home every few weeks. It bets having no income. The area is beautiful, and often people move here thinking it will be wonderful without realizing the economic realities. My family has lived here five generations! How? We have learned to work jobs whereever they may be and do whatever we have to do to keep our homes. (yes - all of my family members have university degrees and several own businesses) Few of us have the luxury of choosing our work, the pay, or where the jobs are, let alone live where we want to live. That is the reality of the living in the American Southwest and Colorado. An hour commute? That is nothing to complain about. Imagine 2-4 hours a day commuting just to work, or even to shop at the nearest grocery story.

I can't sell my house so I can't move closer to my job. My neighborhood is full of empty (foreclosed) houses going for next to nothing. I am not prepared to rent it out and deal withthe headaches of being a landlord--even if I could get someone reliable to rent it for an excellent price.

Plus, I live near my Dad and he needs me to be close. I GRATEFULLY took this job after getting laid off a year and half ago and Idespite jobhunting EVERY DAY, have not found another job that pays as well or that I like as much, closer to home.

We are not stupid, we are living with our choices. I try to use the time in the car constructively--language lesson CDs, informative audio books, call my Mom (with headset of course). Thankfully, I get good gas mileage and have a reliable, sound little Toyota, because I've driven 70,000 miles since I took this job.

Again, grateful to be working.

Commuting, living away from loved ones, eating poorly. It seems great at the time but at the end of ur life it only means something if the husband and wife feel THEY ARE MAKING A SACRIFICE T O G E T H E R. If one feels they are suffering more than the other then resentment becomes the dust that is left over. Flip hambergers and don't make enough ur wife says ur a looser for not making enough. Commute and she says ur a looser for not participating enough. in 40 yr of marriage I have lived at last 6 hours away from home 4 times in basement "holes". Did I sacrifice as much as she did? So AGAIN, I ask. What is it all for??? At 60 and looking back I really don't know.

Buy a RV.

People think I'm crazy...but I've been turning my hobby of motorized bicycles into a way to cut back on my gas to run a Ford F-150 which gets 10-12 MPH. Now...I spend $6-7 for two gallons for premium gas...add 12 oz of 2-stroke oil to the fuel and I'm good to go anyplace I want/need. Is perfect for going to the store/library/church or anywhere within 5-10 miles of my home. Further than that...I get in the truck and go. Mowing yards...the business pays for the gas for the truck...but other than those two reasons...I've cut my gas bill to less than $20 a month this summer. Plus...I have more commuter freedom than I have in a long time...since I'm not giving all my money at the oil companies.