It’s really a conversation to be had with your family, friends and significant other. If you prefer not to do long stretches of work block you can plan on 4-day trips, and in the beginning a commute the day before or after. The net result would be 2, max 3 days at home a week. If you block your work together into one or two blocks then you could plan on being home for 5-7 days but then gone for 7-8 days. Could be challenging unless you have a really strong support structure at home and a solid relationship.

The other issue with such a commute is that you really don’t get to enjoy seniority. After 20 years you would still have to do 4-days, possibly higher time, but hard to get a high time 4-day that is extremely commutable on both ends, so you would probably lose a day off on one of the ends, resulting in a loss of time at home. Compared to living close to base and you can hold two 2-days or high time three days and you are only gone two nights a week.

Regardless it’s a completely different lifestyle than you may want.