Sadly this isn't as uncommon as you think, we're basically pricing out whole classes of people from living nearby their jobs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/realestate/supercommuter-...
Where I live, Boston/Cambridge, there are many people that commute into the city because they pay slightly more than the suburb cities but at the cost of tremendous commute times because they can no longer afford to live in the city.
Sadly this isn't as uncommon as you think, we're basically pricing out whole classes of people from living nearby their jobs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/realestate/supercommuter-...
Where I live, Boston/Cambridge, there are many people that commute into the city because they pay slightly more than the suburb cities but at the cost of tremendous commute times because they can no longer afford to live in the city.