You have to be reasonable about commute times of course. What's reasonable is dependent on the city size, but a 1hr commute in either end of the work day is probably reasonable in big cities, in the biggest ones such as London, Paris or Tokyo you probably have to accept 2h (And if that isn't reasonable to you, you have to move. I could never do a 1.5 or 2h commute).
I can only assume that what he meant was that it wasn't reasonable to find a 3bedroom house with a small guarden within reasonable commute distance and reasonable budget.
When moving in stockholm I looked for just this, (sub 1h commute, 3bedrooms) and had to make a heatmap for public transit times in order to find the good spots. Needed to be in the orange (40minute travel) to have <1h door-to-door with a 10minute walk to/from public transport.
http://commutemap.azurewebsites.net/
I can only assume that what he meant was that it wasn't reasonable to find a 3bedroom house with a small guarden within reasonable commute distance and reasonable budget.
When moving in stockholm I looked for just this, (sub 1h commute, 3bedrooms) and had to make a heatmap for public transit times in order to find the good spots. Needed to be in the orange (40minute travel) to have <1h door-to-door with a 10minute walk to/from public transport. http://commutemap.azurewebsites.net/