Is Gatwick not close to London? Is Luton not close to London? Crew often make the false assumption that Heathrow is in London and crew working from Heathrow must live in London. They don't, and there are plenty of affordable places to live within an hours comfortable drive of Heathrow.
So by your analogy - you are saying that MF crew need a car and live up to an hour's 'comfortable' drive away.
So those MF crew will need to purchase or lease a car (monthly cost), insure it (monthly cost), tax it (monthly cost), service it (monthly cost), and last but not least afford to put petrol in it to get to work.
The average cost of car insurance alone in the UK is now over £1000 per annum - thats almost a monthly take home wage on MF. And according to the AA the average cost of car ownership is around £4000 per annum - so by your reckoning almost a third of a MF crew members take home pay will go on getting to and from work
