It's strange to me that this wouldn't be considered intuitively obvious. Is it specifically car costs that people find hard to grok? In London you could live

It's strange to me that this wouldn't be considered intuitively obvious. Is it specifically car costs that people find hard to grok? In London you could live in Zone 1, walking distance from your work, and pay 0 GBP for essential transport, or you could live in Zone 6 and pay ~250GBP a month, or you could live in a small town or village somewhere with a rail station and pay 250-500 depending on distance. You can't really avoid knowing it unless you just don't care what anything costs. A few years back I moved from a flat around the corner from work to one quite far out. The cost savings were minimal with transport accounted for; negative if I valued my time. The main thing was being in a more suburban location, less concrete etc.