Less than 30mins.

My time is too valuable to waste sitting in a car/bus. I can't believe 2hrs is up there -- who would be ok with that? Someone in denial of global warming for sure lol

It depends on where your located at, some jobs may require you longer commutes for a good salary, job security, etc. I don't think I could do over 2 hrs for a commute but I really don't want to be over an hour a half. I have a friend who drives an hour and 45 mins to and from work every day and she hates it but the job is security especially since the same company closed in the city and only has it's suburban location.

It depends.

If it's a car/driving myself the whole time, I'd say my threshold would be 30-45 minutes.

If it's a train/metro/bus where I can sleep/read/eat/relax/etc. then I don't really care as long as it's no more than 2 hours.

Wow - commuting this long is hard for me to imagine. I live and work in NYC. I walk to work everyday. It takes no more than 10 minutes. However, I know I'm very lucky and my situation might change. So, I guess I would hope to never have a commute of more than an hour. I could handle that.

After 2 hours solid of commuting, I would feel like my productivity and work and at home decreases severely. Spending so much time on the road only wastes money gas and time that I could be using at work. After that, I'd totally have to get a new place closer to the job or live somewhere else during the week...or work in a less congested area, if it's not the commuting but the traffic that's the problem.

We moved into this house specifically because it was so close to hubby's work (and children's schools). Because we'd lived in places before where hubby had a longer commute, (15 - 30 min and in one case yes a 2 hour commute), we insisted on being no more than 8 miles from his office. We're 2 miles from it.

45 minutes ... I used to take a bus which took 45 minutes. Now I take the tube and it's 20, which is immensely better.

i think that an hour is pretty much my limit. when i first moved back to NYC - i was staying at my mom's house until i found an apartment and the commute was about an hour since i was taking the bus and it stopped a lot. that was about all that i could deal with since it mean that i had to wake up that much earlier.

My current commute is about an hour and 20 mins long one-way, but as it's mostly public transportation (train, subway, and then walking), it's tolerable. If I had to drive the entire time though, I would move somewhere closer to my work.

I have co-workers whose commutes are 2 hours one-way and they drive. I don't know how they do it, but I know it's tough for them and that they have to get up at the break of dawn.

Anything over an hour is too long. My current commute when I drive is about 30-45 minutes. When I take public transportation it's about an hour. Once it gets over an hour, it's just ridiculous!

Mine is a little less than an hour, but I start on the bus and then switch to the train, so I can read, listen to music, or just take time for myself. It would be too much if I had to drive by myself!

Mine's an hour, but we carpool so it goes by pretty quickly and is slightly less devastating to the earth...

I used to commute an hour in the morning and an hour and a half in the evening until I moved into the city. Now there's no way I could commute longer than the 15-20 minute ride that I have now.

My total commute, from the time I leave my apartment to the time I get to my office, is about a half hour. I have about a five minute walk to the metro, a fifteen minute ride, and about a ten minute walk to work. It's not bad at all. I don't have a car right now, but when I did, on the rare occasions that I drove, the commute was still about 20 minutes due to traffic.

As far as the longest I could handle, I'm like a lot of others. I could handle about 30-45 minutes of driving, but a little more if I were taking public transportation.

I would definitely prefer a 30 minute or less commute. I used to have to drive 20 minutes to work but now that my office moved it is now 45 minutes or more. I HATE IT! I hate it so much in fact that if I found something closer (with decent pay) I would quit in a heartbeat.

I drive 45 minutes each way in the morning and I take the surface streets. I refuse to take the freeway. If I did, my commute would be over an hour each way. There really isn't decent public transportation in Vegas which is incredibly frustrating.

My current commute is about 5 mins but in the past it has been up to an hour which is probably the max I could handle.

My husband used to commute from Columbia, MD to Alexandria, VA 2 hours each way each day by train and subway. It was hell!! Plus I drove him to the station every day at 6am. Then I had an hour + drive to work in Baltimore. We worked in two different cities and lived in between. We had no choice and we couldn't afford to live near either of our works. The DC corridor sucks for commuting times.

I BART to work and I enjoy reading a book on the train. However, I don't think I can handle more than an hour of commute each way.

I actually dont mind the commuting time of a long commute - i read on public transportation or listen to audio books in my car. But I cant stand the time it takes away from the few precious hours left in my day. When I had an 1.5 hour commute each way last year I felt like a zombie: exercise, drive, work, drive, sleep, over and over again. No time for anything else.

If I'm driving and my one-way commute is an hour the schizophrenia sets in and tells me I'm losing 15% of my productivity hours daily. If I have to jump on BART, train, carpool, I just go to sleep.

I live in NYC and my commute on the LIRR is about 30 mins which I LOVE. The longest commute I can handle is 1 hr. Next month my train ticket will increase by $44 so I might be going to the regular trains ;-(

One hour max. I used to have a 45 minute commute driving by myself. I finally moved just to be closer to my job.

I used to commute for up to 2.5 hours each way ... and then I went crazy and moved closer to work.

I agree with hithatsmybike. I've been spoiled because the last few jobs I've worked, my commute has only been 15 minutes or less (at my current job, it only takes me about 8 minutes by car and consists of a left, right, then left turn, haha). I think I could deal with it being up to 30 minutes but anything more and I'd have to seriously reconsider if I didn't absolutely love the job and/or the pay and benefits weren't great enough to justify it.

I commute roughly 45 minutes door to door, on the metro. I reverse commute (live in the city, work in the burbs), but it's not bad. It's my reading time/studying time. I am still productive, so it's not a waste. When I drive, it takes almost as long, so it's not even worth it.

I guess I don't get the losing productivity comments, especially when talking about public transit. I have been doing a long commute for more than half a year now and I've flown through about 2-3 novels a month, which is something I've always wanted to be able to do but never made the time to sit and read for that long each day. It's really a great time for "me" and I think that makes it very productive.

yes chicago.... awful traffic. I take local 45-50 min each day. I also refuse to take the highway during high traffic times. it would take over an hour!

I work in Houston & live in a suburb, my current commute is 45 min-1 hr 15 min, depending on traffic & weather, most commonly an hour. I don't think I could handle more, some days it just drives me crazy and I think how can I do this day after day?

I live in London and sometimes I take 2 hour commute and it's fine.

I used to drive about 1 hour and a half to work everyday (both ways). It's not that I don't care about global warming, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Luckily I now live closer to work, so it's now a 15 min commute.

I live in an area where a lot of people are very spread out, so most people have a pretty decent commute. Since there were no jobs in my city, I looked for jobs that were up to a 1 hour commute, but after driving to and from the interviews, I decided I couldn't do a commute longer than probably about 30 minutes. Right now, my commute is pretty sweet--30 minutes each way (actually, it's more like 25 minutes at night because they turn all the traffic lights off) and it's all highway miles. I kind of wish I could do a public transit commute so I could read or do Sudoku puzzles during the commute, but the driving isn't usually too bad.

When I lived in Madison, I worked with a guy that drove into Madison from Oshkosh every day...that was a 2 hour commute. He had to leave at 5 am and he didn't get home until 6 or 7 pm every day. Sorry, but that'd get really old really fast for me.

1 hours & 40 minutes is my current commute (via public transport--and shave that down to 1 hour and 15 minutes on the way home). it sucks, but you do what you have to do, right?

it beats not having a job at all.

Am trying for a job that's 2 hrs away by train. But once I do get the job, I'll pick up a small studio there, and only commute back to the Hubs once or twice a week.
Though I agree with whoever said that if it was driving throughout, I would never be able to sustain a 2 hr commute. Short term, maybe.

I think it would depend on whether I was driving or using a train. I could only do about 30 minutes by car, but could probably do up to an hour if I was sitting on a train, getting a chance to unwind after the day.

2 hours by public transportation is fine for me for school since the school day is shorter than the workday. Of course for the workday it would NOT be fine.

it takes me 30 mins to drive to school, my max would be 1 hour.

When I lived in DC, some of my co-workers took the train in from MD and it would literally take 2+ hours one way. They would sleep, read, work, knit, etc. Not for me, especially since I am now retired.

Luckily with most of my jobs I lived within a 5 min walking distance, but one of my jobs took me 45 min and 1 bus change. Not bad at all, I either read a book, listened to a cd, or read the newspaper.

I miss that about the East Coast. Oklahoma has the worst mass trans system I've ever seen.