NotOpie
"Puck don't lie"
Yep, I can literally walk to work (and typically do) from the place that I live out here in Winston-Salem now. It's been a lot less stressful on me. Only time I drive now is if I'm going back to Raleigh, down to Brown Truck, or if the weather's absolute **** that day.
Historically, my commute is about 24 steps, from my bedroom to my home office....sometimes I go all the way downstairs for breakfast.....Now, I still have a job where I use my home office, but I've been commuting to Montreal about every other week. I don't want to hear any commuter laments....
Seriously, I've been fortunate that my jobs in sales, marketing, and consulting have allowed the luxury of often working from home. The key, in my opinion, however, is to separate your work from the rest of your home....and don't constantly find you way back to the "office". It is very easy to essentially "work all the time".
I live in DC these days. You don't get to complain. Until you have traffic delays that stretch into the hours on a daily basis, you cannot comprehend. I could get from Greensboro to the mountains in the time it takes me to get from the east side of DC to Fairfax.
I had a job about 5 or 6 years ago where our home office was in DC (Chinatown). I'd make the trip up there once or twice a month. That drive from DC to Fredricksburg (about 55 miles) could take a little over an hour or it could take 3.5 hours. Most afternoons, you pretty much had to plan for about 2 or 2.5 hours. It made a 4.5 hour drive a 7 hour drive most Fridays. Only way to avoid it was to leave before noon.