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Evening Standard16.01.08
Commuters save up to £550 a month by living outside London - despite inflation-busting rises in rail fares.
An analysis of the cost of buying property in the "commuter belt" found that even with the price of train travel included, the cost of living remains significantly cheaper.
Living in Brighton, Crawley and Reading, for example, could save commuters more than £300 each month.
The report, by the Mortgage Advice Bureau, compared commuters' mortgage repayments and travel costs with the cost of a mortgage of an average-priced property in London and a Travelcard.
• Workers are spending almost twice as much time commuting than five years ago because of unreliable public transport or traffic jams, according to research by employment law firm Peninsula
