To think a 40 minute drive is too far for a commute?

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DD is 20 and is planning on going to uni next year. Her favourite uni is a 40 minute drive away. She would like to stay at home.

AIBU to think it's too far?

40 minutes is one episode of the news quiz extra or my dad wrote a porno. Or most of an album. I actually find that a really good distance - i get to gear up on the way there and chill out on the way home.

I think it's quite far for uni - what about going out and seeing friends?

It really depends on whether she has lectures everyday and what her start times/end times are. Youngest sibling commuted an hour each way while studying his degree for the first year, then struggled in the 2nd year due to 8pm finishes- so we moved him into accomodation then. Just play it by ear.

And i think commuting is a lot more common since tuition fees came in. Dont forget to factor in the cost of parking and ease of it. Will she be able to find a space?

What's the parking situation? Parking at or near universities is often hard to find and/or expensive.

I commuted to uni. Driving would be about 40 minutes but parking a nightmare (city centre) so I drove 10 minutes to the station, 30 minute train then 20 minute walk so an hour in total. EVERYONE I knew did similar. Only people from hundreds of miles away lived in halls.

I commuted an hour door to door when I was at university. From London to London!

My dd lived a 40 min walk from university. Walked everyday and back too. She never complained. Its fine.

Jeez, that’s practically round the corner.

My DD commutes to university. It's a 20 minute bus ride for her.

She lived on campus for her first year so got that experience. Now she is not spending over £6000 a year in rent. And I like having her at home to let the dog out, cook, let tradesmen in.

if she has Morning and evening activities on campus, she is more than likely to go to the library, but is also able to come home.

My journey to school took longer than that!

40 mins in the luxury of a dry car is nothing! I had a walk/bus/walk/train/walk/bus commute which took 1.5-2hrs depending on time of day. You are mollycoddling her. She's 21 let her make her own decisions without looking for back up on the internet. (Unless you want her out the house?)

Yabu.

What on earth do you mean hardly anyone commutes to uni? For a start most of the staff do, and all unis have loads of mature students who have families and live with them, not in halls. It's perfectly possible to make friends and bond with people without living with them- adults do it all the time. What a peculiar thread .

Not too far to commute though she may end up feeling she is missing out on the experience of uni not living where she studies - though she could always change her mind and rent later.

I did an hour including traffic. It took its toll after 10 years...

But 40 minutes sounds decent to me, most people I know that drive (to work) commute far in excess of that.

I'm quite that you think a) 40 mins is a long commute and b) hardly anyone commutes to uni.

You couldn't drive from one side of most cities to the other in 40 mins during rush hour, let alone from outside the city.

Takes me 40-50 minutes to get to uni, depending on traffic. Any big town is around half an hour from me, so I'm used to driving a reasonable distance for things. Anything up to an hour is reasonable for a commute, I'd say.

Is your concern the drive or the time? If it's the time then i think that's a fairly short journey. I've always thought an hour somewhere is about average. If it's that the drive is long and possibly difficult and tiring - then i can see that. I hate driving and it's different from snoozing on a bus/train.

I wouldn't do it for uni as i would have probably still been over the limit to drive most days!

What is your concern about it OP?

I'm reading this and suspecting that poor OP thought that when DD started uni she would be moving out and OP would be getting her house back

she would be very lucky to get such a short commute to job, or even to university from halls of residence. it would be considered a pretty average journey to secondary school

Secondary school run was 1 hour each way by car.
Morning train journey was often longer as it also involved a brisk 20 minute walk uphill from the station to school.

I don't think 40 mins is too long a commute.

But I would want my first year uni student to be living in uni accommodation, at least for the first year. Unless she can't afford the accommodation, and commuting is cheaper.

I thought the same readining it MAggieCAte