Every morning at 4:45 I pile into a van with a bunch of weirdos and ride 65 miles from my small town to Issaquah, WA. It takes 75-90 min to get there and a minimum of 2.5-3 hours to get back when you count the 30 min waiting for the van. This is the cost of living with my dad to save $$ rather than have a life. Precious hours of life wasted sitting in traffic on I-5 and I—405. I’m rich a f*ck for someone of my stature though.
so you're basically living in a van, not even near the river.
That sounds pretty freaking rough. Pretty areas though!
Look for a new job. That's all that comes to mind.
Dude, unless your dad needs assistance just get an apartment in Issaquah
no river? wrote:
so you're basically living in a van, not even near the river.
Gig Harbor is better than a river.
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no river? wrote:
so you're basically living in a van, not even near the river.
Gig Harbor is better than a river.
Was probably referring to the 4 hours a day in van.......
He won't leave. I love my son but I want him out. He rides and waits 5 hours a day and still he won't leave. What did I do wrong with that kid.
Do you know what having an adult son live with you does to your sex life?
Son, get a cheap apartment. If you have to find a roommate to help defray the cost.
But get OUT!
PS your mom wants you out too.
Gig Harper's dad wrote:
He won't leave. I love my son but I want him out. He rides and waits 5 hours a day and still he won't leave. What did I do wrong with that kid.
Do you know what having an adult son live with you does to your sex life?
Son, get a cheap apartment. If you have to find a roommate to help defray the cost.
But get OUT!
PS your mom wants you out too.
Aw, Dad. I'm a millennial and can't be self-sufficient.
Gig Harbor to Issaquah wrote:
I’m rich a f*ck for someone of my stature though.
How tall are you?
Gig Harbor to Issaquah wrote:
Every morning at 4:45 I pile into a van with a bunch of weirdos and ride 65 miles from my small town to Issaquah, WA. It takes 75-90 min to get there and a minimum of 2.5-3 hours to get back when you count the 30 min waiting for the van. This is the cost of living with my dad to save $$ rather than have a life. Precious hours of life wasted sitting in traffic on I-5 and I—405. I’m rich a f*ck for someone of my stature though.
Your return trip probably trumps this, but my dad does Quilcene to Bothell via the Edmonds/Kingston Ferry. He splits between: Drive home to ferry, park car, walk down to ferry, ride across, walk off to another parked car in Edmonds, drive to work. Reverse. Or: drive 30min to ferry, park car, wait for van pool, ride van pool on ferry across all the way to Bothell.
Minimum 90min each way if he drives his two cars. But he loves where he lives
Nothing is worth that sort of commute. Nothing.
You must have a very predictable 8ish hours per day job to pull that off. Early in your career that can work but not later on as you gain more responsibility. When I was first starting out, I lived at home and commuted by car from south Seattle to Everett everyday. It took less than an hour each way...of course this was in the late 1980s when I-5 wasn’t constantly gridlocked.
NotWorthit wrote:
Nothing is worth that sort of commute. Nothing.
Disagree... you wouldn’t want to do it for 35 years, but it sounds like he’s saving his money, possibly for a down payment on a house of his own? In that case, a few years of suffering are worth it. In a market like Seattle/Bellevue and it’s suburbs, you’re going to need at least $100K to put down on anything.
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NotWorthit wrote:
Nothing is worth that sort of commute. Nothing.
Disagree... you wouldn’t want to do it for 35 years, but it sounds like he’s saving his money, possibly for a down payment on a house of his own? In that case, a few years of suffering are worth it. In a market like Seattle/Bellevue and it’s suburbs, you’re going to need at least $100K to put down on anything.
With that commute, no time for a girlfriend.
Nope. If the answer arrived at is to commute for 3-4 hours every day, you look for a different answer. Rent a room during the week in the work location, find a different job, move to a different region, something else. I will never agree that commuting that way isn't gravely dangerous for a person. I worked for many years with a person who commuted from Mojave, CA to downtown LA, regular working hours. It was as corrosive to him as heavy smoking or clinical depression. You could see the agony in his eyes, but he always gave that buullshiit line about his commute being "about an hour", which was off by about half.
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NotWorthit wrote:
Nothing is worth that sort of commute. Nothing.
Disagree... you wouldn’t want to do it for 35 years, but it sounds like he’s saving his money, possibly for a down payment on a house of his own? In that case, a few years of suffering are worth it. In a market like Seattle/Bellevue and it’s suburbs, you’re going to need at least $100K to put down on anything.
NO! He wants to have the worst commute on Letsrun.
Gig Harbor to Issaquah wrote:
Every morning at 4:45 I pile into a van with a bunch of weirdos and ride 65 miles from my small town to Issaquah, WA. It takes 75-90 min to get there and a minimum of 2.5-3 hours to get back when you count the 30 min waiting for the van. This is the cost of living with my dad to save $$ rather than have a life. Precious hours of life wasted sitting in traffic on I-5 and I—405. I’m rich a f*ck for someone of my stature though.
S#cks for you bro.
Got a job at Stanford while living in South San Jose. It took me 2.5 hours leaving at 6 am to go the 20+ miles to get there.
Tried Cal Tran, 101, 280, 85, El Camino, riding my bike. Nothing was better than the other.
I quit and got another job a couple months later. Don’t waste your life in a car no matter how good the job.
Gig Harbor to Issaquah wrote:
Every morning at 4:45 I pile into a van with a bunch of weirdos and ride 65 miles from my small town to Issaquah, WA. It takes 75-90 min to get there and a minimum of 2.5-3 hours to get back when you count the 30 min waiting for the van. This is the cost of living with my dad to save $$ rather than have a life. Precious hours of life wasted sitting in traffic on I-5 and I—405. I’m rich a f*ck for someone of my stature though.
Dude, who gives a flying flip if you're "rich"...what you described sounds miserable and a waste of precious days in a life.
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