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  1. Jennifer Duke

    Jennifer Duke Well-Known Member

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    I'm about two hours door to door each way :(
     
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  2. Jennifer Duke

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    You're likely on my exact commute! I'm coming from Whalan to Pyrmont every day. Given the walks to station/waits for tram after train/etc it takes me a full two hours door to door each way. Thankfully I work Mondays from home!
     
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  3. Gockie

    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    Yep. Screenshot_2016-03-04-21-03-53.png
     
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  4. hammer

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    Darwin.....it's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Fishing after work, cause I can. Home for lunch with my beautiful wife.

    People think I'm nuts for staying here. But I have more time for what is important.

    I guess it depends on what you value...
     
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  5. legallyblonde

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    Hobart is having crazy cbd traffic issues atm. Peoples commutes are up to double the norm.Everyone is late and pay is being docked... Very relevantfor investing...
     
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  6. Giuseppe

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    Hobart needs a train system and will probably get one as PM Turnbull seems open to the idea.
     
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  7. DaveM

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    When I moved to Adelaide my office commute from home was 4 mins. I have moved the office and its now 15 but still a vast improvement over Sydney :)
     
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  8. Waldo

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    20km for me, so about 10 minutes.

    I dont think thats a particularly fair comparison. Most (if not all) of those trains from other countries are inter-city trains; not commuting trains. I seriously doubt there are many trains around the world that do in excess of 100km/h between stations only a couple of km apart.
     
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  9. Bozley

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    yep instead of taking 5 minutes to get to work now it take 10 minutes
     
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  10. Gockie

    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    That Sydney train was an intercity train. Yep... the ones that do the 2.5 hour Newcastle-Central trip....
    Screenshot_2016-03-05-21-05-20.png
     
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  11. Davothegreat

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    The proper comparison train for Australia is the Countrylink XPT not anything on the Cityrail network.
     
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  12. D.T.

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    Marrickville to Sydney? Did you walk?
     
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  13. Gockie

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    XPT isn't fast though. I took the XPT Sydney- Melbourne overnight.... absolutely never again.
     
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  14. Gockie

    Gockie Life is good ☺️ Premium Member

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    People can go pretty much the length of Taiwan (Taipei to Kaohsiung) 300km, which is 90min by fast train.
    Sydney - Newcastle is 120km but 2.5 hours by train.
    Sydney - Melbourne is 710km (straight line distance) and 11 hours by train.
    We have trains... just not the fast ones!

    I've had Airbnb guests tell me they plan to take the train from Brisbane, and I say, maybe consider flying....
     
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  15. bob shovel

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    I did a fun commute... Penrith to Bondi #lovesydney
    Could do the morning trip leaving at 4:30am in 50Min. return journey was painful, very painful. Did the train for a bit but taking the work mini bus was fun and getting the ute airborn on weekends was cool :cool: and who can say no to free fuel
     
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  16. Steven Ryan

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    To North Sydney.

    Via train.
     
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  17. sanj

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    you spend 20 hours a week commuting??? i would need to be paid a ludicrous amount to justify all that time wasted, time that could be spent earning money, with family whatever.
     
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  18. Jennifer Duke

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    Well, my family on a day to day basis is my wife and fur babies. And wifey does about an hour and a half commute (depending on traffic) to North Ryde. I work from home Mondays, so 16 hours a week :). I happen to quite like my job lol and we choose to live in the Druitt (so we can own our home and not rent, have space, etc) so not really up to them to remunerate me for my choice of suburb. Technically, we could afford to rent nearer to work places if we didn't have rescue animals.

    We just run a very tight ship in terms of day-to-day schedules, I use the commuting time to speak to my parents, read, catch up on other work/commitments, knit etc :). The way in is very quiet as we are early birds, but on the way back I rarely get a seat and that's a killer waste of time...
     
    Jennifer Duke, 6th Mar, 2016
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    What sites do you use to find these?
     
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  20. geoffw

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    librivox.org is a good site
     
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