You&#x27;ve just nearly described my exact working environment.  Only, on one side I have a highway.  I have a friend who works across the road from me.  If we met up for lunch on foot one of us is taking a 30 minute walk because it&#x27;s impassible on foot.  I&#x27;m stuck driving for the bulk of the winter because it&#x27;s just unsafe (after biking to work year round in Chicago for the last ten years, this commute broke me).<p>Fortunately (for them and me) the company is moving downtown this spring, or I wouldn&#x27;t have taken an otherwise great job.