I'm with Hacker on this. You can stand on your head in a bucket of feces for 18 months, you can definitely manage commuting for 18 months. I've only ever known commuting, so yeah it's probably better not to, but it doesn't bother me at all.
Military guys seem to be the biggest anti commuter group out there. I suspect because they got used to moving around from assignment to assignment to places they didn't choose to live. They figure the family doesn't mind (well, they probably do mind).
Personally, that's what drove me nuts about the job and why I chose a place to live regardless of who hired me (my hometown of Denver). That's one of many great things about the job, you can finally live where you want!