<prompt> Human: Im considering moving into a new place with my girlfriend. This will involve a MUCH furtherlonger commute for me. Im wondering if it is worthwhile. We drive to one another 90 miles about 1:40 each weekend, taking turns whos apartmentcity we stay at. We have looked at moving to a houseapartment in between us, but it is backwoods as hell and there arent really any suitable options there. The best option is on the outskirts of her city, and is luckily right off of the highway I would take to work. This will result in a commute of about 80 miles1:20 for me each way. This will be 95 country highway65mph, 4 lanes, with little to no traffic so I dont expect much variance. I know a lot of people have 20-30 mile commutes in huge cities that spend an equal amount of time in the car every day so I dont think its going to be completely unbearable. Here are some stats about our current situation:Me Currently:Commute: 30 minutes12 miles roundtripRent: 710monthElectric: 60monthCableInternet: 100monthGas commute plus 180 mile roundtrip every other weekend: 67monthHercurrently:Commute: 15 minutes5 miles roundtripRent: 715monthElectric: 65monthCableInternet: 113monthGas commute plus 180 mile roundtrip every other weekend: 54monthTotal Cost combined: 1884Ive tallied the costsbelow and it appears it will be roughly 476 cheaper per monthshown below to live together, mainly because we only have to keep one apartment and are consolidating costs. Assuming I can tolerate the commute I will be banging out lots of podcasts, does this make sense? Im not factoring in the cost of car mainenance, but I feel fairly confident it will be under 476month. The car I will drive is a 2001 Ford Focus that currently has 120k miles but has held up well. Its KBB value is around 2k so, assuming it holds up, it doesnt have much value to lose. I will go from putting about 10000 miles per year on it to nearly 40000. If it has major issues, I will find another good mpg low-cost car to replace it.UsLiving Together:CommuteMe: 1:20-1:30 each way 160 miles roundtripCommuteHer: 30 minutes20 miles roundtripRent: 850monthElectric: 75monthCableInternet: 113monthGas just commute: 370monthTotal Costcombined: 1408Savings: 476My girlfriend has graciously offered to help out in lots of little ways to make this more managable. She will take care of all the grocery shopping and a large portion of the other boring day-to-day tasks cleaning, laundary, cooking that eat up free time outside of work. I also am lucky to have a reliably 40 hoursweek salaried job so I will still have a reasonable amount of free time. I expect to get up at about 6am each day, get out the door showereddressed with a smoothie to go vitamix by 6:20 and get to work by 7:45. With a 30 minute lunch, I should be on the road home by 4:15, hopefully making it home by 5:45. If all goes as planned, that shouldnt be too bad.Im a fairly young 29 professional and combined we make a fairly high dual income 120kyear: me 82k, her 38k. As a result, I dont expect to do this for more than 2-3 years at which point fingers crossed I will be able to relocate to a new city where we both can have jobs in close proximity. The city she lives in is a lot nicer and has much more going on. I expect that the annoyance factor of the longer commute will be offset by being with her as well as being in a city with a lot more to do.I guess Im curious what you guys think about this plan, mostly from a finanical perspective, but feel free to chime in with any experiencescomments on the commute. Im particularly interested in whether my projected savings can cover car maintanence on driving a car about 25-30k more miles per year than before.TLDR: Does a move that results in a longer commute and 30k more milesyear, but a savings of about 450month after accounting for gas cover car maintanence?  <response>: Its just... A very long trip. Can you do that? You could maybe stay over for a week at her place, see how it goes. Its probablu a bit longer drive than what youre planning on, but if you cant handle it for just one week... 