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I-5 Northbound Weekdays 8-9AM Question (self.sandiego)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by macintosh to c/sandiego

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I'm planning to move to SD in the next month. I'm looking at apartments, and unfortunately will not have much of a chance to scope them out in person prior to signing. I've been testing commute times in Google Maps beginning at 8:30am from apartments to work, mostly including going northbound along I-5 from near downtown SD to the outskirts. The times its estimating seem ridiculously fast, 16-26 minutes to go 15-20 miles during rush hour. Is this correct? Is it because most commuters are going the opposite direction?

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[–] macintosh 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The job would almost certainly make me have to deal with UTC traffic due to location. Relatively close proximity. Almost every apartment on my list is north of I-8, and a handful north of Balboa Ave. I'd love to have a super short commute but finding a compromise between availability, price, amenities, internet availability (you guys seriously have an awful internet situation), etc doesn't make it very likely that I'll have a rock bottom commute. I'd take wasting a few more precious minutes of my life every day to live in a nicer apartment. I don't want to do more than 45 minutes round trip particularly, though. Apartments.com puts the "30 minute commute during rush hour" zone deep into downtown.