Melbourne

I used to go to a specialist high school a 15 min drive away from where I was living. About an hour and 15 by PT, but I usually preferred to take a simpler way with less running (required to make those connections), which bumped it up to about an hour and a half to an hour 45 depending on how fucked the trains were that particular morning.

I think that personally an hour and a half on a train is okay, 2h max, but if it's peak hour and a packed train, that drastically goes down and reduces to about half an hour. By car, I'd be okay with an hour as a passenger, but 30 minutes would probably be my preferred limit as a driver. But I'm still a learner, so by the time I was a full license holder, I would probably be okay with an hour as a driver as well

I guess it also depends on a few other things, though. How'd you find the uni commute? Did you find it draining? I ask because some people find travelling alone to be draining, and if you're going to waste half your energy on trying not to road rage in a traffic jam, do you really want that to immediately precede your work? Or are you the sort of person that finds that kind of useful - like a chance to listen to a bit of pump up music and invigorate some energy into yourself before getting on the grind for the rest of the day?

Another thing to think of: what's your start time, and how much time do you need each morning? Personally, I need at least an hour in the morning before I can tolerate human interaction, and about 20 before I've officially woken up from sleep. So if I had an 8am start time and 45 minute commute, I'd round that up to an hour for a bit of margin, and then I'd be waking up between 6-6:30 each day. But I also know people who'll get up as soon as their alarm goes off, take a quick 5 minute dunny run, 2 minute shower, then they're out the door less than 10 minutes after waking up