JustSomeoneLikeYou t1_j96ls7w wrote on February 19, 2023 at 5:28 PM

I just wanna say that for a Rhode Islander, that doesn’t sound like a doable commute at all. I see the situation by you’re in with the other considerations though.

I’m in the elmhurst area, I’ll be honest it seems like the most ideal situation (unless you have money to make it on the east side, wayland square or Blackstone area). In elmhurst, you have smith street bus lines that go right to downtown but they don’t run very late. I normally take the bus and Uber back home late if I go out but Ubers aren’t as expensive as they are in Boston or other big cities.

Smith street is a really popular for running with the Lasalle, Providence college running groups. Providence is actually a great running / biking city once you have a good understanding of the land.

boulevardofdef t1_j96yh9a wrote on February 19, 2023 at 6:55 PM

That's a very modest commute by the standards of a lot of areas. I used to work in New York City and live in New York City, a two-minute walk from an express train, and it took me 45-60 minutes to commute eight miles to work depending on wait times and delays. Even here, I used to work in Cumberland and most people came from the Boston suburbs and had commutes of about an hour.