You also need to be there to assess the traffic. If you are going to drive your children to school, for instance, you should try the drive during the appropriate times. You should do the same before deciding where to live, too.

Someone I worked with, in another state, laughed at all our warnings when we told her the commute to her new house would be almost insupportable. She had only driven there in the evening and on weekends. Her first morning in the new house, she discovered she was, as warned, nearly an hour and a half away, not twenty minutes as she thought.

Live very close to work, if at all possible.