It takes me around 50 minutes on a good day to an hour and a half on a bad day to drive the 26 miles to work along residential, country roads and motorway. I then have a 10 minutes walk from where I park my car to work as the car parks are way too expensive to park in for a whole day every work day. It's always far worse during school time and there's around a 1/3 less traffic on school holidays. As the school year goes on the traffic very gradually gets better. It's always worse when it's wet with more cars and more accidents etc. The last couple of days have been rubbish with accidents, broken down cars & lorries and queues! Those journeys have taken an hour and 10 minutes to an hour and 20 minutes. I hate traffic and it gets me down/stresses me out! I'd rather drive a longer route and keep moving rather than a shorter route stuck in traffic.

I can't live nearer to work as it's more expensive here to live and I don't further away from family and friends.