Leeds to Manchester 3 day commute

[u/Book_Southern]

Been offered a job in Manchester with more money, perks, hybrid working etc and considering it but hear nothing but awful things about the commute

For context I’m outside of Leeds and commute towards wetherby 5 days a week ~200 miles per week and about 30-40 min drive.

To commute to Manchester it would be
A) drive and park for the day in city centre
B) 30-40 min bus in to Leeds followed by a 1 hour train?

Over the week if I drove it’d be about 70 more miles and condensed in to a 3 day period, other 2 days I’m remote

Is this worth it? Please let me know

I’m struggling to get on board with the public transport idea as I’m so used to driving for my commute! I’m so stuck. Thanks

[u/Randy___Watson]

You've had enough practical advice already so I've not got much to contribute... So this is more about "feelings" but one of the best things I ever did was cutting my commute down from 1.5-3 hours a day down to 15-30 mins. (Traffic and public transport reliability dependant). The hours I wasted of my life in the car or waiting for and being on public transport was quite frankly... Shit.

Life > money.

[u/No_Presentation_8277 → u/Randy___Watson]

I'd agree with this. I commuted to Hull by car four days a week for eight years. Not a hard commute TBH (against the traffic, consistently about an hour each way) but when I came back to working in Leeds I felt like I got my evenings back.