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If you choose to commute , you will loose min 2 hours every day,
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Not so. We've lived in France about 25km from the office ever since we moved over here (from 2001); route and journey times varying over time, with long-term roadworks, new roads, changes to traffic flow, but even at its very worst it was never more than around 45mins (except maybe once every few months if an accident caused problems). Mostly is/was around 35 minutes door to door, sometimes as little as 20 when I did it by motorbike.
Some key points for driving in from France
- avoid coming down the motorway if you can, or at the very least have a back-up route in mind; it doesn't take much to make the border crossing go slow
- start work late, the worst of the traffic is usually gone by 0830 or so
- be aware of school holidays, and events like Basel World, which can seriously alter traffic flows