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Kimmo
Counter point, sometimes people don't expect to have quite so many issues.
I know someone who lives up near Leeds and has office days in Canary Wharf. It should be a straightforward short bus to the station + 2hrs ish train + 30m tube. Obviously a long journey, but should theoretically be 3hrs door to door, which is fine for the 2 days they originally started on as they'd stay overnight. However, for a long time they had a massive road works project on the first leg, which turned their 15m bus into some undeterminable amount of time and then the trains kept fucking up. Then 2 days switched to 3.
Obviously they are saving a lot of money / getting amazing vfm living in the Leeds burbs v. the South East or London. But it's still shit comminiting for 5hrs each way just so you can be late anyway.