I made the commute from Providence/Warwick to Back Bay about 3-4 days a week for two years. It wasn’t so bad at first, but it becomes exhausting after a while.

As others have mentioned, cost, reliability, and travel time can be an issue. The days can get very long very quickly, especially if you can’t catch an express train for one reason or another. I found that the most reliability issues occurred at the end of the day (southbound). The early express trains were pretty reliable, however.

It’s a hell of lot better than driving, but either way you are getting up much earlier and arriving home much later than you otherwise would.

If it weren’t for COVID closing my office entirely (I now work from home) I probably would have quit by now.