Ugh the motorway and bypass where I am is more rammed than ever thanks to increased house building but no improvement on two lane road....
If I was minted, I'd but a flat close to work and live there during the week! More realistically, a friend lives close by and says could do spare room for £25 a day, so that's £300 a month of I did Mon-Wed. Anybody do anything similar?
I'm just contemplating options. It's so much more expensive closer to town and I'm not about to sell the house Sheena and I just bought so I'm in a tricky situation with commute. It's 1.25-2 hours all-in (there and back) but that's serious time and although it might sound silly, I'm certain it had physical and mental health impact!
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It does make a difference having a shorter commute. When mine went from an hour and 40 minutes round trip to a 25 minute round trip it made a big difference to my life.
Have you tried 2 wheels? Could let you live at home but shorten the commute. The only problem for you is that you live in the frozen wastes North of the border if I remember correctly. Might not be a lot of fun in winter.
I normally find somewhere via spareroom, though airbnb works too.
£25/night sounds pretty decent to me. I don't see why a friend, even a good friend, should put you up and put up with you for free.
Consider what you'd be doing in the evenings if you were there. Is it a comfortable place to relax after a day's work? Will there be space to do what you want to do, or will you have a choice between sitting with them in a lounge or on your own in a bedroom.
It's a bit odd living somewhere else - even for a couple of days/nights a week. How much of your own "stuff" do you keep there? What do you do with all the time you've got from not having to do the normal at-home chores? Or do they expect you to do a bit of at-home chores there?
I find that I usually end up doing a 10-12 hr working day and just go back to wherever to sleep, so it's not much of a life.
Stagger your working hours to miss the worst of the traffic on the commute?
I'd give it a trial
I guess that's slightly different but if your organisation has a policy around flexible working/ compressed hours you might be able to work longer days in the week based from your friend's house and have every friday/ every other friday off.
We do that at work, though somewhat unofficially, so I'm normally in the office around half seven and head for home about 2-3pm. I'll then do a bit at home (which may not be possible for you).
Or see if working from home is possible a few days a week? If you're happy being a bit isolated then it can be very effective.
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I do the same thing. If it gets creased and dirty in the works time its only fair it gets washed and ironed in the works time. ;-)
I used to work with a guy who used the same train of thought for his monthly haircut - if it grows in the works time it's getting cut in the works time. :-)
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself