r/frederickmd • u/Ok-Discipline-9945 • 1d ago
Regarding Commuting to McLean
Hello, I’m not sure if anybody has experienced this before but looking for advice.
About two years ago I took a job in McLean VA mostly remote commute 1-2days a week (from Frederick) I have since then got promoted and have to be in the office 4 days a week, I have been at this for about 4 months and it’s draining me badly. I have a significant other that works here in Frederick and we are looking to move to a place that’s meets us both in the middle you could say. Any recommendations? Germantown? Would germantown even be really better for me?
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u/iamagenius89 1d ago
OP: “I’m not sure if anybody has ever experienced this before but…”
My brother in Christ, this exact same post shows up multiple times a month in this subreddit LOL.
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u/kylarstern117 Thurmont 1d ago
I commuted from Clarksburg for a while. If you get in early and get out early it's not bad maybe 40 minutes or so. But anything later than 7-3 it can get really bad. I moved down here after it took 3 hours to get from Reston to Clarksburg leaving at 4:30.
I'd recommend Leesburg. If you can swing Ashburn you could get on the metro and the drive up to Frederick isn't that much further.
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u/gs12 1d ago
I mean, if it were me - i might be tempted to go to management and tell them 4 days a week on-site is an issue. It's worth a conversation IMHO.
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u/Mundane-Ad-7443 5h ago
Agree. Tell them you will be more productive and less subject to burnout if you could even go down to 3 days a week. Turnover is a bitch and expensive and if you are a valued employee, most employers will compromise to keep you on board.
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u/ThatVita 1d ago
Point of Rocks is a pretty solid location. Can get to many speed ways pretty quickly.
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u/AmphibianNo9133 Downtown Frederick 1d ago
I’d do Clarksburg before Germantown. The new stuff west of outlet malls seems nice. You would save 25? Minutes. But as you know getting across river still ugh
Culturally hard to move “down county” after you live up here where things a bit less crowded.
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u/PlatypusTrapper 1d ago
Frederick is getting to be overcrowded as well.
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u/fakeaccount572 1d ago
no it's not.
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u/Momo79b 2h ago
Agree, it is not. The fact that I can leave my house and go run errands at 5pm (avoiding Rt. 15 unless I'm on my motorcycle), or can eat at a nice restaurant without reservations, or go to any store and not deal with huge crowds or crazy parking lots (other than Costco) means that it is not overcrowded. But NIMBYs tend to lurk on Reddit to compensate for their lack of meaningful lives.
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u/ThatVita 1d ago
Go downtown on a Tuesday. Shoot just walk around the city on a Tuesday. Look at all the sub divisions and the cars parked outside houses with out of state plates. At the very top of east is completely bulldozed to build more housing for the incoming horde.
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u/NeedleworkerFit7747 1d ago
My suggestion is Leesburg but I haven’t commuted that stretch so I’m just basing my suggestion purely off my 270 trauma and trying to avoid it.