The long drive really depends on you. I have a 3.5 hour drive and it beats the commute on an airplane hands down, especially if that commute is offline. Then again I’m a road trip kinda guy so driving doesn’t effect me that bad.

I fly with others who look at me incredulously for making that long of a drive while I feel sorry for them having to commute by air. I’ll gladly take a long drive over even a relatively short commute by air.

Another factor is traffic and how variable that can be. Only a small portion of my drive can have greatly variable traffic, while some people have a much shorter drive to my base but theirs can vary from 1.5-3 hours depending on traffic.

Unless you loathe driving, take the drive over the flight commute if you can. Living in domicile is priceless.