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I'll go ahead and add the other side of this. I'm in no way disagreeing with anyone that has posted, just presenting another opinion. Commuting just doesn't work for us. I asked dh before we were married that we always live in base. I can pretty much be content where ever I'm living as long as I know I'm seeing my husband the most. The job already entails being gone plenty without adding extra days to the beginning and end of a trip. He's holding around 15 days off a month right now, and that's a pretty nice thing. But, it's still half a month away from me, every month of the year. He's missing half of everything. 6 months. No husband. Yuck. Once we have kids the odds are good that he'll miss a lot of their "firsts." We'd like to increase the odds of him being there for important things as much as we possibly can. Besides, it's neat to live in different parts of the country that I never thought about living in. Neat to be in different cultures. Having travel benefits makes it easy for me to go back home to see family whenever the mood strikes me. Not many people are able to have lives like we have. You just have to find what works for you guys. If commuting does, great! Nothing wrong with that at all. I just thought I'd present my views on this since they didn't seem to follow any previous posters.