I did a 30 mile each way reverse commute for 13 years. 35-40 minutes in the morning, 45 minutes to infinity sometimes on the way home. Five years ago our worksite moved into the city, 6 miles/15 minutes from my house.
I'm much happier now, my co-workers who live out near the old site not so much.

 

+1 why burn 911 miles sitting in commute traffic!

 

True. But I just love being in my 911 and I love driving it. The traffic on the way home is concentrated in the beginning during the first 20 miles. Then it clears up significantly for the following 30. The last leg includes several miles of a somewhat scenic and uncongested toll road which goes through the hills.

I guess if the traffic really kills me, all I have to do is wait a few years for an autonomous car and keep the 911 for my days off.

 

Why not? They built a dozen more of them while you were at work that day.

The real concern is that road conditions in the US are not exactly getting better. Through our elected representatives, we made the collective decision to disassemble and rebuild the infrastructure in Iraq and Afghanistan at the expense of our own. It's a matter of opinion whether that was a good thing to do, but what's not a matter of opinion is that our own highway infrastructure is falling apart.

Here in the Seattle area, commuters are finding that conditions on one of our major highways (I-405) are no longer what they were when they bought their homes 20, 30, 40 or more miles from their workplace. Our state department of transportation has altered the deal. We can rest assured they will alter it further, and entirely to the detriment of our interests as drivers.

Your state agencies probably have similar plans. Find out before signing the offer on your new house.

 

That's a great user name! Do you work in PE / IB? Can't PM yet...

 

I take my 911 to work about one day a week (4 day work week). My commute is about 30-45 minutes in am and 50 to an hour in pm (with more stop and go traffic in pm..a lot more). I find that it breaks the monotony for me and hey, nothing depreciates a car faster than time so just letting it sit in the garage the whole week and only use for weekend doesn't quite add up to me.

 

Great town, great schools, happy wife. No question except DD'ing the 911. You might run into rain -- right LV?

I commuted to NYC for 23 years. Commuting is not bad, you can deal with it. My solution was simply not to think about it.

 

I'm leaning toward commuting. But it is only going to work out if I can block it out of my mind like you did. Who knows, maybe I can do it for 23 years too

 

I have used a 911 as a daily driver for the past 8 years in DC beltway traffic. First a 2008 997 6mt, then a 2012 991 7mt and now a 2016 991 C4 7mt. I drive locally about 200 miles a week. there is no other car I'd rather past the time in. Almost left for a Tesla p85d, but no... almost to an S7, but again no...So i am of the opinion to put the miles on the car. They aren't classics, they aren't appreciating, they will depreciate reliably. So go ahead drive it, appreciate it, don't save the miles for its next owner.

 

I've done both. Long commutes become very. Very. Old. Doesn't matter what you're driving. Throw in the occasional gawker's block for an accident, or road construction, or whatever, and you're done by the time you get home.
I now have a 5.5 mile commute. Granted, I managed the 'nice home/short commute' double, which is difficult and not in your current binary options, but: Is there nothing in between? Surely you can find a home with better schools that's maybe a half hour from work.

Two hours a day adds up. Exercise; sleep; time with wife and kids. You can pull that routine off for a few years, but trust me: Eventually you will come to hate that beautiful house for what it has done to you, which is the worst of both worlds.
Good luck.

 

Uber

 

Seriously ? Would that be practical? I've never tried it, but I would be willing.

 

IDTS.

I do like Uber, though.

 

I see this hasn't come up yet. If you decide to commute over an hour make sure you get a good surveillance system to keep track of your wife. It sounds unhealthy to think that way but I know quite a few families that didn't survive moving on up. Just saying!

 

Wow, seriously? All you need is trust. If you trust, you're fine. If you don't trust, you find another.