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I was set to criticize OP for never having tried out the commute, until I remembered that I once took a job without having worked or lived a single day within 9 time zones of the place of employment. It's somewhat par for the course for foreign hires, and indeed, some of them discover they (or, even more frequently, their partner) don't enjoy the location.

I did ask them to show me what a typical office would look like, though.