There are people that actually commute from Sacramento or other cities that are two hours away to San Francisco for work. I was wondering if it is worth it.
According to this article: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article190050994.html (I encountered this article and found it interesting because I am from San Francisco and surprise to see people commuting to the city from faraway cities.)
I decided to do some budgeting: (This is assuming someone works five days a week)
Hypothetically let's say you commute from Sacramento to San Francisco for a month:
1.I am guessing toll is usually around $4 x 5= $20 a week. $20x4= $80. I just got information that there is a toll to get back to Sacramento so it would around $160 round trip for a month.
2. According to gas buddy a round trip from Sacramento to SF cost around $12.26. $12.26x5 = $61.3 x 4 = $245.2/ month in gas usage. I would add in about 10-20% to that amount since you would want to factor in fuel consumption for stop-go traffic. (I used a 2014 Honda Civic automatic for the calculation)
3.Also account for wear and tear on the car. Round trip is 176 mi. So it would be 3,520 mi/month in wear and tear. This might not seem too serious for a newer car but for an older car the wear and tear will start to add up in the form of oil changes, tire replacements, and maintenance check ups.
4. Car insurance on average is around $164 in California. This is assuming you will not be bringing your car and/or driving in San Francisco so that's why I put in the cost. SF has good public transportation and Muni offers pretty good logistics around SF so many people just opt to use Muni.
4. Account for the mental stress and exhaustion from driving about 3.5-4 hours a day and then dealing with traffic.
5. Factor in parking which can be free if you are lucky or you would have to pay.
6.Account for the 3.5-4 hours/day loss. Assume you work 9-5. Most likely you would wait up at 6:00 AM and leave the house at 6:30 AM. When you leave SF and get back home it would be around 7:30 PM. After you get home you would need to make dinner, prep for breakfast and lunch for tomorrow, take a shower which would add about one hour. It is now 8:30 PM and you can either spend like one hour relaxing till you sleep or just knock the fuck out because you too damn tired to do anything.
Is it worth it in the long run? I got around $569.2 in cost for around a month for the commute not factoring for wear and tear of the car.
A standard room in SF can go for $1,000-$1,100. So I don't know if people think saving $550 approx. a month would be worth the mental exhaustion and stress. If they can tough it out then all the good to them.
According to this article: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article190050994.html (I encountered this article and found it interesting because I am from San Francisco and surprise to see people commuting to the city from faraway cities.)
I decided to do some budgeting: (This is assuming someone works five days a week)
Hypothetically let's say you commute from Sacramento to San Francisco for a month:
1.I am guessing toll is usually around $4 x 5= $20 a week. $20x4= $80. I just got information that there is a toll to get back to Sacramento so it would around $160 round trip for a month.
2. According to gas buddy a round trip from Sacramento to SF cost around $12.26. $12.26x5 = $61.3 x 4 = $245.2/ month in gas usage. I would add in about 10-20% to that amount since you would want to factor in fuel consumption for stop-go traffic. (I used a 2014 Honda Civic automatic for the calculation)
3.Also account for wear and tear on the car. Round trip is 176 mi. So it would be 3,520 mi/month in wear and tear. This might not seem too serious for a newer car but for an older car the wear and tear will start to add up in the form of oil changes, tire replacements, and maintenance check ups.
4. Car insurance on average is around $164 in California. This is assuming you will not be bringing your car and/or driving in San Francisco so that's why I put in the cost. SF has good public transportation and Muni offers pretty good logistics around SF so many people just opt to use Muni.
4. Account for the mental stress and exhaustion from driving about 3.5-4 hours a day and then dealing with traffic.
5. Factor in parking which can be free if you are lucky or you would have to pay.
6.Account for the 3.5-4 hours/day loss. Assume you work 9-5. Most likely you would wait up at 6:00 AM and leave the house at 6:30 AM. When you leave SF and get back home it would be around 7:30 PM. After you get home you would need to make dinner, prep for breakfast and lunch for tomorrow, take a shower which would add about one hour. It is now 8:30 PM and you can either spend like one hour relaxing till you sleep or just knock the fuck out because you too damn tired to do anything.
Is it worth it in the long run? I got around $569.2 in cost for around a month for the commute not factoring for wear and tear of the car.
A standard room in SF can go for $1,000-$1,100. So I don't know if people think saving $550 approx. a month would be worth the mental exhaustion and stress. If they can tough it out then all the good to them.