I did this once. It worked well, still talk to most of those people from time to time since ive left that job.
My issue was the near daily expectation of going out for lunch. Like who’s made of money like that? Not going for lunch allows me to save like $100 a week now.
Sounds like some downtown urbanized thing. I moved to the suburbs in Ontario and you have to drive.
You are right though, some areas this could work but it still would he close yo $20 a day