Originally Posted by SlipKid

3-5 hours going to work during the day, and 2:45 coming home late at night. Due to the ridiculous amount of unfettered development in FL, without commensurate road and other infrastructure to support it, the drive to work was trending closer to 4 hours (and getting worse) the last few years I did it.

That was one of many factors in our decision to punch out of our home of 30+ years and move to a domicile.

The straw that broke the camel's back occured in 2018 when I had to call in sick twice in a 30 day period, because, due to lack of infrastructure (IE: no alternate routes), I physically could not get out of the county in time to make it to work. Both times I was in my car for over 2 hours and never got more than 6 miles from home. That had never occurred in the 17 years prior that I did that commute. During the last year before we moved, I would leave the night before and get a hotel anytime I had a report time before 1300 or so.

It's gotten exponentially worse in the last 4 years, so we made the right move, although, we should've done it a decade earlier. Live and learn.

I highly recommend moving to within an hour's drive of a domicile. It's a completely different job. I can't imagine doing that commute today on top of the complete goatrope that this job has become.