10-second walk down my hallway to my computer.

It’s 16 steps down to my basement office.

I work from home and yes, it’s as great as you think. I’m 11 years till retirement and I will NEVER work in an office ever again.

TL:DR - Ride my bike along a precarious but not terrible inner city suburb of Melbourne Australia. It takes about 10-15 minutes to go 4km. I have the option of a 25 minute riverside bike ride if I’m willing to give up my sleep in.

I live in an “inner suburb” of Melbourne Australia, and I work at a community centre just a few tiny city suburbs away, 4km.

I have an e-bike that I use as my primary vehicle, because of the way my migraine disorder manifests and overlaps with another condition, I can’t drive a car. So I’ve learned how to get by completely carless - living in the inner city suburbs helps so I’m privileged in that regard. But the ebike has been a game changer.

Before covid I had a job about 6km away and I was wasting so much money on buses and uber, it was two buses and an awkward connecting power-walk that meant frequent missed connections and also pushed me just over onto the more expensive ticket because of how our public transport fee system works. So I would lazily uber to work several times a week. And since I was working part time, it wasn’t even worth it some days when I had a 2 hour shift. ~40% of my pay cheque would go to ubering to work.

Then covid hit and our state went into lock down. The community centre ran a food bank so my 2 or 3 hour part time shifts became 12 hour days as demand increased but staffing couldn’t. I’d always miss the last bus, and uber drivers were few and far between. I tried riding my bike but the 12km return trip was just a bit too far on top of the 12 hour day, so I bought an ebike.

I got a new job, closer, and a very nice ride. I have multiple route options, one of which is a gorgeous separated shared pedestrian-cycle path that follows the local river which I often ride home - I finish at the optimum dog walking time so I get to meet so many puppies on my leisurely ride home. But it’s very slow (because of all the dogs which aren’t supposed to be off leash, but are) so, my preferred route to work is the fast way. It cuts right through the the town centre, it’s an old industrial dock town so it’s pretty highly developed but never highly invested in, meaning the roads are horrible and full of trucks. But the council are working on it, and in the last few years they’ve installed some halfway decent bike infrastructure. The danger is worth the 15 minutes it saves me in the morning.

Morning: walk 5 km uphill in the snow. Evening: walk 5 km further uphill in the snow to my second house. Next morning: walk 5 km even further uphill to my next place of work

…and so on until the weekend where I walk 50km back down the mountain to my first house, in the snow.

I drive 30 minutes into work, but it’s against traffic both ways, so it’s a smooth ride.

Two jobs, both 100% remote (one of them for 22 years).

Try not to trip over the cat.

I live in a medium sized city (~95k) in Europe. It takes me around 15 minutes by bike to get to work.

4 years back it was a walk to the station and a half hour train ride.

Now I walk downstairs after waking up at 9:30.

Pre-pandemic I drove 15 minutes to the BART station, hopefully got parking. Walked 5 minutes to the train platform. Waited for train. 50ish minute train ride to downtown San Francisco. 10 minute walk to office. Pretty typical Bay Area commute.

Now, I take my dogs for a walk, get back home, make coffee, relax. Go upstairs and login to work. WFH is the new normal and it’s great.

A 20 minute bike ride. Not the most beautiful scenery but I still enjoy a bit of exercise in the morning.

Walk 2.5km from home to mini bus taxi rank. Wait for taxi to fill (15 passengers) and we drive 30km. Get off and walk through a mall to office. Takes about an hour total. Afternoons it’s just the opposite. Traffic doesn’t matter to South African Taxi drivers.

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Really annoying. The most direct route is this one two lane road that has a single patch where no bicycles are legally allowed. So driving and all it takes is one fender bender and it takes me an extra thirty minutes.

I work from home one day a week the rest have to head in since the factory floor needs me.

Used to be grueling, 3h total time commuting in South America’s biggest metropolis that left me with no time for life out of work. Now I got a bike so every day I’m riding the equivalent to a land rocket with no air bags. But hey, I can do stuff at night!

I live in a small town near Amsterdam and work twice a week in the office in Amsterdam.

My commute is:

• 3 minutes walk to train station
• 24 minutes train ride
• 12 minutes bike ride