Please also note that those houses are supposed to be in declined tiny villages in the most remote places. Surely, you do not want to commute from there to a job in the city.
That assumes there's viable internet connection, which is often not the case in small remote villages (that is one of the huge caveats).
The 2010s called and wants last decade's arguments back.
Cities can’t just be waitress jobs for other waitresses, they need a core of non service jobs to work.