Place to live with reasonable commute to both Slough and St Albans

My wife and I are moving to London, we're arriving in a week's time!
My wife has full time employment in St Albans, and is required to have a car for work purposes, while I have an interview for an exciting position in Slough.

I am wondering if it is at all possible to find a place to live with a reasonable commute to both Slough and St Albans. The St Albans commute will often be by car, and the Slough commute will be by public transport.

Can anybody recommend any options that might work? Or any resources I could use to figure this out?

Thanks!

I'm afraid it's not going to be easy. 

Midway between Slough and St. Albans if you're driving is approximately Rickmansworth, which is a nice area.  (My wife and I used to live in Sarratt, which is nearby.)  While it wouldn't be too bad to drive from there to St. Albans at rush hour, it's still probably 40 minutes to an hour (that's a really rough guess) in stop and go traffic on the M25 for a lot of it.  Not fun if you have to do it every day.

Then you've got to get from Rickmansworth to Slough using public transport, which means you've got to go into London on the train to Marleybone, then take the tube to Paddington, and then the train to Slough, which would take an hour and a half if everything runs smoothly, which it never does.  That also doesn't take into account getting from home to the station and from the station to work at the other end.

If you moved further south and west to make the Slough part easier, it makes the St. Albans part worse.

Sorry I don't have a better answer.  Hopefully someone smarter than me comes along who sees something I didn't.

I'm going to have to echo camoscato. There really is no easy way with public transport in this area - you almost always have to go into London and then back out.

I work in Berkhamsted, not too far from St Albans, and my partner works in Maidenhead, which is just next to Slough. I don't drive, but he does. So we live in Berkhamsted and he's stuck with the commute. Even though it says it should only be 40 minutes, it's generally twice that. And if he decides he wants to take public transport so he can have a drink after work, he ends up getting the train into London, then the tube to Paddington, and then back out.

You may be able to get buses into Slough from nearby towns like High Wycombe, but it would be an incredibly long bus journey. I think you'll have to decide if the job is really worth it. You can find public transportation options at http://www.transportdirect.info/, which may not always be entirely accurate but will give you a good idea of the options, time and frequency.

And if you decide the job isn't worth it, St Albans is a lovely place to live!