By and large it&#x27;s not practical to live and work in the same suburb, especially if you&#x27;re a two-income couple. Which is why in the D.C. area you have crazy traffic with people commuting between random suburbs. It&#x27;s way more efficient to put all the jobs in a central location and move people in and out with commuter rail. It could easily take you an hour to drive from one D.C. suburb to another. In that same time, I can commute from Connecticut into NYC.