I grew up in a small town and was never bothered by driving around. In fact, I enjoyed it. I liked driving to and from high school.
Now that I live in a big city and the traffic is exponentially worse, I find I hate driving. This is just me, of course, but my driving experience is completely ruined in big cities most of the time. I can never quite get used to how aggressively people drive and just how bad the traffic can become. The city I'm in also has almost no public transportation.
It's not the time that bothers me. It's the manual driving and dealing with traffic. I spent a semester in Russia while in college and had about a 30 minute commute to class via the metro and I was never bothered by the time involved at all. I hardly even noticed the impact of the time spent commuting, though I admit that might have been influenced somewhat by the perpetual feeling of magic one experiences when studying abroad.
Anyway, in my case I decided to just rent an apartment in walking distance of the office and it was one of the best decisions I've made. If you're the sort of person who doesn't mind fighting traffic twice a day, I'm actually jealous of you--I could get a full house for the cost of my apartment if I moved to a suburb.
Now that I live in a big city and the traffic is exponentially worse, I find I hate driving. This is just me, of course, but my driving experience is completely ruined in big cities most of the time. I can never quite get used to how aggressively people drive and just how bad the traffic can become. The city I'm in also has almost no public transportation.
It's not the time that bothers me. It's the manual driving and dealing with traffic. I spent a semester in Russia while in college and had about a 30 minute commute to class via the metro and I was never bothered by the time involved at all. I hardly even noticed the impact of the time spent commuting, though I admit that might have been influenced somewhat by the perpetual feeling of magic one experiences when studying abroad.
Anyway, in my case I decided to just rent an apartment in walking distance of the office and it was one of the best decisions I've made. If you're the sort of person who doesn't mind fighting traffic twice a day, I'm actually jealous of you--I could get a full house for the cost of my apartment if I moved to a suburb.