Tom, I am sorry if you misinterpreted my post. I think you are the classic example of the problem that is faced. Your jobs are very distant from your wifes, therefore you make the smart choice of splitting the distance. This gives you both a similar distance commute (I wil bet her commute has less traffic and stress, outside of winter, than yours).
I don't have any answers for you, and I think I pointed out that it was unlikely that every one could do what Pat did in moving within working distance of his work. In my choice for a house, my priority of a full 2 story house that I could afford pushed me a couple miles further from work. So I let that priority override some other desires in my housing location. I am not staying anything good or bad about it, just that in location of our homes we have many different conflicting priorities. I would guess you number priority is splitting the distance between your wife stable place of employment and your likely places of well paying employment for you field. Life sometimes just gets in the way of things. Josh Kroll Minneapolis ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Searles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "TC Metro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 7:49 PM Subject: [TCMetro] Commute > Josh Kroll and Pat Neuman started a thread about living closer to our jobs. > Now this sounds easy on the surface, but it has not been proven so in my > life. > > Jobs are uncertain in some lines of work. For example, I'm a computer > programmer. There was a time a few years ago when I was laid off 3 times in > 25 months. I specialize in software used in the medical field. I found a new > job relatively quickly in each instance, but the new jobs were in different > areas of the Metro. > > My wife is a teacher in a rural school district. Her job is extremely stable > (kind of hard to outsource teaching first grade), but she cannot move to > another school district without giving up her tenure and take a 30--40% wage > cut. > > We could move nearer to my wife's job, but then what would I do for work? > There are not too many skilled, technical jobs that would pay me even half > of what I currently make. We could move closer to my job, but I could be > laid of tomorrow. Then when I found another job we would just have to move > again. We each commute, in opposite directions, about 35 miles each way. > > There are the facts. Do you have any answers other than to keep doing what > we currently are doing? I currently work one day per week at home. My > employer does not allow me to do so more frequently. > > Tom Searles > Waiting for answers in Waconia, Twp. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Metropolitan Issues Forum > http://www.e-democracy.org/tcmetro > Rules: Sign posts with real name. You may not post more than twice a day. _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Metropolitan Issues Forum http://www.e-democracy.org/tcmetro Rules: Sign posts with real name. You may not post more than twice a day.
