Two leg commute would be miserable and should be reserved for damage control only. I had the easiest commute (one of) in the business with Boston to Newark. Countless flights a day on a few airlines. When it’s good it’s good, but when it’s bad it’s very bad. It’s a shuttle so any hint of weather and they cancel half of them and then every flight is oversold for 2 days. Weekends off... almost worse. If you show at say 8am the morning flights are risky so you need to likely go the night prior. Last flight is pretty booked and risky so you take the one before...it’s a Sunday so it’s at noon...and wide open. Now you take the noon and get there at 1pm and have the rest of the day and night in the crash pad. You can only take that for so long before you get risky and start taking the 6am that lands at 7:20 with no backup and hope for the best. As others have said, if you have to and it lets you live in your dream location, it’s nice to have. There is no scenario where a commute is good, fun, easy, or marginally doable. You sound like most optimists wanting to believe it’s a good jump. “Two flights a day.” “Jumpseat is almost always empty.” “A few two leg options.” These are things I told my wife trying to convince us that it wouldn’t be bad at all. Your commute will be in the “doable” category, but far from good. More often than not you’re likely to go in the day early, Miss the last flight and go home a day late. Not to be discouraging but we’ve all been there. Welcome to the suck!

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