>>>>>I drive about 24 highway miles to work everyday. The new job would be ~ 8 miles shorter.
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>>>>That's like only 2/3 of your current journey though.
>>>>BTW, I do c 24 a day too - c 45 mins (including traffic in Brighton) though most is highway.
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>>>It takes me about 25 minutes. I can usually set the cruise control on about 73 mph the whole way.
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>>If I tried to do that around here I would be in an accident in about 10 seconds.
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>Last time I was in Chicago I had a lot of fun with the city driving the first day or two. After that I hated it.

Join the club. No, I don't let it bother me enough to hate it, but it's not much fun, either.

Bear in mind that by "around here" I mean near my house, which is 45-50 miles north of downtown Chicago. The traffic in the surrounding counties has gotten almost as bad as it is in the city as new development has moved further and further out. There are 8 million people in the Chicago metro area, only 3 million of them in the city itself.