Do you work at the other end of the country?
Or drive a ferrari?
(Nanny Pat vote for me, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 15:14, 2 replies)

1200 miles per month.
Roughly 8 quid a day.
So about 150 quid, assuming I can go the shortest distance, which I haven't been able to do due to a road collapsing (well, looks more like the moon than a road, so have had to increase my journey by about 2 miles per day - I rounded this up, so guessed at about 200 quid, which isn't far out, plus I have to drive to pick up my kids (as, of course, it would be too much to ask that this driving be shared between my ex and I). That probably adds an extra 50 quid a month.
(dchurch bah, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 15:20, closed)

Has
anyone seen the price of pertrol recently, loads of people pay £200 a month. If I drove to work it would cost me about that, so i get the train, which is about £15 less a week
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 15:50, closed)

I would
get the train too.

Sadly, getting the train requires a 10 mile bus journey (in the direction AWAY from where I work), to catch another bus at the bus station to the railway station, then a 2 mile walk at the other end.

It works out about the same financially.
(dchurch bah, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 17:09, closed)

That's not too bad,
It used to be 240-250 for me. I know others who drive even further!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 15:23, closed)

That's what I thought
The job I was in before was double that.

I thought I was doing well by getting a slight pay rise to go to a job closer to home.
(dchurch bah, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 15:27, closed)

A guy I went to college with lives just outside of Sedgefield
and drives to Scarborough each day. 75 miles each way. He very soon bought a dual-fuel car and saved a fair packet.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 15:29, closed)

There's
no way on Earth I could afford to buy a new (or nearly new) car like that.
I struggled to get my car through it's last MOT with the help of a mechanic friend, desperatly crossing my fingers that I could squeeze another year out of the old bird.
(dchurch bah, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 15:32, closed)

It wasn't new
It was an Exchange & Mart job or eBay or some such. Bit of a Sally Gunnell.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 15:59, closed)

A
Hybryd would surely cost more than I could sell mine for - which would be around 500 quid, if I cleaned it up a little.
(dchurch bah, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 17:10, closed)

Sounds like it's worth more than mine
6 months' tax and a full tank doubles the value. It's in for it's MOT this week, I'm dreading it.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 2 Jun 2010, 17:55, closed)