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?
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.