Originally Posted by Jan2555*GG*:
“That is a particularly nasty post.
Have you considered that she commutes because she has a home & family in London & decided that it's easier to travel herself than disrupt her sons schooling & making her partner change jobs to move North with her. Of course if she had insisted on the whole family uprooting to follow her, then that would have made her equally 'cold & calculating'. She chooses to work but also be there for her sons as much as possible. Something that we should be applauding rather than deriding. She is lucky enough to be able to afford to do all the travelling to see her family daily, something that is important to all parents surely. Most mothers would cut of their right arm to do the right thing by their children & to me that's all that Susanna is doing ie juggling lots of balls in the air rather than making their own life easier.”
Agreed, lots of people decide they do not want to move because of various commitments - children's schools, spouse's work, elderly relative etc. The father of the girl from the Poppy Girls, who appeared at the Albert Hall last week, when not overseas works in Rosyth all week so lives there and travels back to his family for the weekend.
Breakfast TV needs early starts which must be disruptive on the rest of the family - I thought she stayed in Manchester/Salford for several nights a week rather than commuting every day as the poster suggested.
The recent series on a crane company showed quite a few of their staff live in caravans / mobile homes most of the time with their family the other side of the country.