31-year-old supercommuted from North Carolina to New Jersey for 10 months—and took a pay cut to stop doing it: I was 'dying to find something closer'

Andrew Rendon liked some elements of his commute, though many people wouldn’t. That’s because his commute entailed a roughly 2.5-hour drive and a flight to boot.

Rendon, a 31-year-old DevOps — or development and operations — engineer, and his wife used to live and work in central New Jersey, but within the past year the couple moved to North Carolina, where his wife found a job. His in-laws had also recently moved south.

Rendon and his wife had been renting in New Jersey but he says they knew buying a home there would be too expensive.

“The same square footage, the same type of house that we get down here would be easily twice the cost in New Jersey,” he says.

So they packed up for the Tar Heel State, where they bought a home, and Rendon began supercommuting once a week.