Reading this thread makes me realise how lucky I am to live in London and be able to walk to work. I have a good, well paid job and can walk to work in 15 minutes. I moan a lot, but really shouldn't. Can't believe that some have to pay £5,000! Even though it's taken out of your wages, that's still a hefty dent to your pay each month.
I do a combination of walking and driving. I think I spend about £20 per month on petrol but that does include trips shopping and/or picking up my sisters from nights out. I am quite lucky that its a 10 minute drive/40 minute walk. I had travelling, even when on holiday I hate it
taxis sound cheap where you are, how far`s it? a less than three mile journey to the next but one village is £2.10 for a single, it was £8 last time i got a taxi. anyone who wants to make the 6 miles from there to town is charged £6.70 for a day ticket, what a bloody rip off.
About £40 a week in petrol. As my main office base relocated from 5 miles from my house to 14 miles away we get paid the extra miles each month for 2 years. Just need to remember to put the claims form in each month. So most of that cost I actually get refunded at the end of the month.
My wife commutes to London, I'm not sure how much her season ticket goes up by this year.
I had a similar journey about five years ago and it was costing me at least £40 a week in petrol. Part of the reason why I changed jobs was to save money and I now live a 10 minute walk away from the office
£0 and I would not pay £8k per year just to get to work. Sod that. A lifestyle changes would have to be in order really.
Even if you are getting paid £30 an hour, you are still working 33 days, so about 1.5 months for absolutely nothing.
I know wages in London are higher than average but surley after you have to pay for transport, plus the astronomical price of housing even on the outskirts of the city, the benefit of the higher wages is just eaten away and then some. I always think only the Queen and that rich Russian bloke can actualy afford to live anywhere near the centre of the city, anyone else has to haemorrhage money to afford so much as a rabbit hutch, regular folk seem to have to live miles and miles away and pay a small fortune in train fares just to get to work.
When I'm at uni, at my job(s) there - nothing, as it's a 5-10 minute walk.
When I'm at home, it s 2.1 miles and I drive it, so whatever that costs in petrol - barely anything. Only reason I don't walk it is it's an unlit country road with no pavement, and I work on a bar so get home very late at night, and it's not safe.
During summer I work a lot however since September, I've worked 3 days so far that I've been home and therefore had to drive to.
I bought my season ticket that covers rail and bus last week and it was £1238. I get an interest free season ticket loan via my work so I make 11 payments over the year from my wages.
Nothing during the summer, because I walk or go on my bike but it costs about a fiver a week in diesel during the dark mornings. I start at 6 and would have to go along a pitch black pathway called The Black Path. It's scary!
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+Car tax £400+Insurance £300 = £700 / 50= £14 per week + petrol £36per week, so £150 per week, which in turn coverts to about £7500 pa.
I only use the car for work.
Add up your annual commute cost and then divide by your hourly pay. See how many days or weeks per year you are working for 'free'.
At the end of the three years do you just drive the car off a cliff or something? As Presumably it should still be worth a reasonable amount.
It's just over a mile and a half.
I'd say about £80 a month..
My wife commutes to London, I'm not sure how much her season ticket goes up by this year.
One of the few benefits of living in Saudi - petrol is approx 7p a litre. Cheaper than water
Suddenly it all makes sense ;-)
I thought that even a smartcar wouldn't be that cheap to run.
Even if you are getting paid £30 an hour, you are still working 33 days, so about 1.5 months for absolutely nothing.
When I'm at home, it s 2.1 miles and I drive it, so whatever that costs in petrol - barely anything. Only reason I don't walk it is it's an unlit country road with no pavement, and I work on a bar so get home very late at night, and it's not safe.
During summer I work a lot however since September, I've worked 3 days so far that I've been home and therefore had to drive to.
Went up 50p this week.