I'm living in western Sydney at the moment, it takes 1:20-1:30 each way to get to my office in north Sydney. I can live with this because the distance means my rent gets me a house with a garage instead of a one bedroom flat in inner sydney. By reasonable I just meant that for the money id say where I am is the best value in terms of house size and area where I live.

This reminds me why I don't live in Sydney. Even Melbourne is better than that. Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra all have IT jobs as well where you commute will be a small fraction of that.