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[figee]

I live about 30km from campus (what's that in miles?).  I catch the train in, takes about an hour door to door.  And I live where I do to be close to the horses and away from the inner city.

Are they your horses? I think 30km is about 23 miles? I have horses, too!

That's a lot for a train ride. It takes me an hour and 35 minutes to drive one-way in good weather. I'm hoping for the lesser of two-weavels.

Nope, thankfully.  Who can support the vet bills and farriers bills on an academic salary???  :-)  But I've a schoolmaster I can ride whenever I want, who is patiently teaching me dressage and jumping.  hopefully in the next year or so....

So what horses have you got?  And with that commute, how do you find time to ride?

[paddington_bear]

I live about a mile from campus. When I first moved here, I lived in an apartment about 1.5 miles from campus. I could have chosen to live in the bigger city about 40 minutes or so away, but I thought that the winter commute would be pretty iffy.

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[infopri]

I've lived within a mile and a half from the local university for about 30 years, except for three years, when I moved to five miles away.  It's extremely convenient, and I've almost never run into my students off-campus, although my husband occasionally does.  (We live in a small city.)

I spent two years commuting to another school, which was 45 miles away, door to door.  Some of my students also commuted from where I live, and on rare occasion I bumped into them in our home city.  (My colleagues who lived in the fairly small town where the campus was, however, told me that they ran into students off-campus all the time.)  The real problem with the commute (besides the frequent white-outs during the winter, which often made the drive terrifying) was that I didn't have the convenience to make a "quick run" to the office, the way larryc describes.  If I forgot something (in either direction), I was out of luck.  Otherwise, I didn't mind the drive, although I missed the ease of a local drive and resented the two hours I had to spend in the car instead of doing something productive.

Now I'm job hunting (but not moving).  I'm willing to drive up to about 80 or 90 miles, one way, if it means a decent job, although I'd like to keep it under 70.  (Man, I'll miss that mile and a half!)

[pilchard]

20 minutes in the car because I had the home before the job.  Like larryc, I find it to be an ideal distance...

[samspade]

Before they hired me as a VAP, I adjuncted at my current institution and had to drive over an hour. After being hired full time, they offered a faculty apartment. I live less then a block from my office and can walk every day, I went from putting 20,000 miles a year on my truck to less than half.

[makor77]

I will be working at two campuses.  One is about 25 minutes/20 miles.  I hope that does prove to be a decent distance.  The other is about 60 miles, and I am hoping it only takes about an hour.  I haven't done a test run yet.  I know it is all highway driving, so I am hoping it's not too bad.  The long drive is two days a week.  The other is three days a week.  My office is at the closer campus.  People keep asking when I'm moving, but we live in a great area with all the "stuff" we could need and great schools for our future children and that sort of thing.  The school is in an area with very little "stuff" and horrible schools and things for our future children. 

[engineer_adrift]

800 yards to my office, and 1600 yards from the ocean, and 1900 yards from where my sailboat is moored.  Ahhh.

<shame-facedly> I still drive to all three.

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[gennimom]

Oh well. I live about a mile from campus and my horse lives about 7 miles on the other side of that. Ugh.

[spork]

2.5 miles.  I hate commuting.

[qrypt]

I walk to my office in less than 10 minutes.  It's a major factor in my quality of life.  I spent my first two years after PhD as a VAP living on campus at SLACs, and I liked that a lot.  I'm happy to have a bit more distance now, but I do like the fact that I'm still in the university neighborhood.  Almost all of my department colleagues live within a 10 minute walk.  

In fact, almost *everything* is within a 10 minute walk: kids' school, public library, small supermarkets, pubs, post office, park, doctors' office.  

[trabb]

I live about 30km from campus (what's that in miles?).  I catch the train in, takes about an hour door to door.  And I live where I do to be close to the horses and away from the inner city.

Wait.  Let me get this straight.  You live 30km from campus so that you can be near your horses and you don't ride them to work?  Seems to me that if notaprof gets paid $1.50/day not to drive to work, you should get double that for riding the horse.  I mean really, schools talk about "greening up" the campus; this would be the perfect way to do so.  Not only would riding your horse cut down on greenhouse gases, but after having it hitched all day outside your office, a couple of students with rakes and pitchforks would really be able to contribute to greening up the campus.

I live exactly 2 miles from campus.  I love it.  I don't run into any students at all, but that may be because it's summer.

[sequoia_sun]

I live about 30km from campus (what's that in miles?).  I catch the train in, takes about an hour door to door.  And I live where I do to be close to the horses and away from the inner city.

Are they your horses? I think 30km is about 23 miles? I have horses, too!

That's a lot for a train ride. It takes me an hour and 35 minutes to drive one-way in good weather. I'm hoping for the lesser of two-weavels.

Nope, thankfully.  Who can support the vet bills and farriers bills on an academic salary???  :-)  But I've a schoolmaster I can ride whenever I want, who is patiently teaching me dressage and jumping.  hopefully in the next year or so....

So what horses have you got?  And with that commute, how do you find time to ride?

Hahaha, good point. I have hardly ridden at all this year. I have two Tennessee Walkers. We have our horses where we live, and luckily, I also happen to be a farrier! The teaching job has been 3 days a week, although it becomes difficult to keep up with both. This is why when I went back to grad school, I quit my professional job to shoe. It was a much more flexible schedule. I will be glad to transition out of it, which I have slowly been doing over the last year (plus, it's killing my body). There have traditionally been years I don't get to ride as much as others, but I love having my guys around.

[oldfullprof]

I live 240 miles away, but stay in a hotel three nights a week.  The drive from the hotel to campus is about six miles.  I rarely see students while staying in the neighborhood.

[dolljepopp]

About 8000 miles, give or take...





My grad school is the only campus in my life at the moment.

[brunhilde]

I live 1.3 miles away, according to Google maps. It takes me 25 minutes to walk. Being close enough to walk was a major factor in where we chose to live and we eventually found a great house within a reasonable walk that we could afford.