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I knew some people who did something like that 20 years ago, "living" (having a family) in the south of France and working in Frankfurt. They only did it to give their families the chance to live near their extended families or for the jobs of their partners, nobody did it because it improved their quality of life. It's probably different when you're 25 and single vs when you're 40 with a family, but I don't know anyone who works away from home several days a week and enjoys it, and it's not an uncommon pattern for consulting people around these parts of Europe (apart from the status symbol that this sort of lifestyle is, despite it objectively sucking - weird how people are that way).