I haven't tallied up your posts on mileage, but would like to add to the comments about the amount of time vs. the mileage. Same holds true for most auto commuters (about time). As long as the drive is less than 1 hour they are often fine with the distance. So, if 20 miles takes you an hour or 50 miles takes you an hour that is okay. There are stats that back this up, but I have overheard many a driver say things like "when the new toll road opened up I was able to move to X city (i.e., further away) and still get to work in less than an hour."

We had a major roadway here that handled 90,000 vehicle trips per day. Another totally new road opened up parallel to it and took 70,000 trips a day and the old road never went below 55,000. Where did the extra trips come from? I think the latest numbers show that the old road is up around 100,000 trips and the new one over 100,000! So 200,000+ trips where there was 90,000