I used to get very paranoid about trains and tubes in London so went through a period of travelling 1hr30 on the bus every morning from West Norwood to Tottenham Court Road. Now there is a fast bus but I often instead opted for the normal stopping bus but for it to Only take one hour and a half I would have to leave the house to get on the bus for 6am, meaning I would get in early for a 9am start (ditto I would have to work late)
Now good things were bus was lovely, I read loads, I loved watching london from the top deck but any traffic and it was hell and yeah I was effectively working many extra hours a day.
I think annoyingly it is all dependent on where you can afford to live and the dream would be to cut the time and stress down. I envy the people commuting now that they only have to do that journey two or three times a week. That was the dream then.
I used to get very paranoid about trains and tubes in London so went through a period of travelling 1hr30 on the bus every morning from West Norwood to Tottenham Court Road. Now there is a fast bus but I often instead opted for the normal stopping bus but for it to Only take one hour and a half I would have to leave the house to get on the bus for 6am, meaning I would get in early for a 9am start (ditto I would have to work late)
Now good things were bus was lovely, I read loads, I loved watching london from the top deck but any traffic and it was hell and yeah I was effectively working many extra hours a day.
I think annoyingly it is all dependent on where you can afford to live and the dream would be to cut the time and stress down. I envy the people commuting now that they only have to do that journey two or three times a week. That was the dream then.