If you are working minimum wage, the last thing you want is to spend between 2 and 4 more hours per day on public transportation or driving (if you can afford i

If you are working minimum wage, the last thing you want is to spend between 2 and 4 more hours per day on public transportation or driving (if you can afford it). It could be worse though, it could be that you can't afford public transportation either. Look at London: Unaffordable to live in if you're minimum wage (hence the unofficial "London minimum wage"), plus the train could get as expensive as £500 a month while still living 30 minutes away from zone 1. So there's the situation where what you save on housing you spend on transport (and feeling miserable spending hours on a train/tube/bus).