So I have been commuting for a few months now and I thought I would share some stats.
For an average 5 day week in New York City with no baseball games I spend 3 hours per day commuting(Car-Train-Subway-Subway-Train-Car), then 8 hours at work. So for the average week 15 hours commuting and 40 hours working. However most weeks involve at least one baseball game.
A baseball game with the Cyclones means traveling out to Coney Island which adds 2 hours back and forth to Manhattan. A baseball day will often consist of 4 and half hours to 5 hours of commuting if I catch my train. Weekends for a baseball game will take 6 hours of commuting for a 3 hour game!!! Sounds crazy, but with all local trains it takes forever.
The past three weeks I have not had a day off because of baseball games so an average 7 day week (with three games) I spend 52 hours working and 30 hours commuting. Not a bad 80 hour week.
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Your commute sounds terrible. I’ve always wanted to live in the city – as in, when I’m old and filthy rich (haha) and own a million dollar apartment overlooking Central Park.
On the plus side, I guess you could shift your sleeping schedule forwards to make the most of the long hours on the train. Although the driving before and after kinda defeats that.
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