I've never understood people who say you can live too close to work. My best commute was a 5 minute walk. I lived in the city centre so everything was close to me. Why would it affect my work/life balance? When I didn't want to work I just did other things.
Maybe what is meant is if you live closer to work at the expense of living further away from everything else. That makes sense. But living close to everything was great (shame the job itself sucked or I would have stayed).
The company I was at at the time was very startup-y. Fast paced, high stress. People in the office very late, and gave a stipend for living walking distance to the office.
The result was a perception by myself and many others that we needed to stay later, and could because hey, home is right around the corner.
I’m sure some people could manage that better, but a lot of the company, myself included, could not.
Maybe what is meant is if you live closer to work at the expense of living further away from everything else. That makes sense. But living close to everything was great (shame the job itself sucked or I would have stayed).