Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. Josh is in Albany, New York. Josh, welcome to The Ramsey Show. How you doing?

Hey, fellas. Thanks a ton for taking the time to chat with me today. I appreciate you.

Hey, so I find myself kind of at a bit of a positive financial crossroads in my life.

I just started a new job in Long Island that pays 125K a year, which is more than double my previous salary.

It's great.

But I currently live in Albany, New York.

So I have been commuting down, and it's about, you know, anywhere from six to eight hours a day of driving, depending on traffic.

Hold on a second.

How long have you been commuting six to eight hours a day?

It's only been two weeks, and it is on a hybrid schedule.

So I'm only in the office two days at the moment, so it's not exceptionally brutal.

And it will probably be three days on site, you know, moving forward.

And my initial intention was to move down to the city, but the more I do the math, the more I think about it, the more I'm debating just doing the commute and functionally doubling my already doubled salary, you know.

Oh, are you married, kids? What's your status? No, single of the day is long. Okay. I don't even

have a house plan to worry about it. I think it's bananas that you're even considering doing this,

but the fact that you're single is the only scenario. Yeah. How old are you? By which I could do that?

32. 32. Okay. Well. How old are you? By which I could do that? 32.

32.

Okay.

Well, I'll tell you it's not a sustainable solution, even two or three days a week.

Your mental health is going to suffer.

You'll be calling the Dr. John Deloney show shortly here because of this.

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