Reasonably, as long as you have a car. Half of working residents drive. A third stay home. The train barely features. Hextable is connected to the rest of the world by a drive and a fibre cable, and the fibre is the more reliable of the two.
Swanley Rail Station is the nearest station, and at the 2021 Census only about 6% of Hextable's working residents took the train to work. Buses carried about 1%, from the village's 8 bus stops. The station is close enough to have shaped how the village grew, but most residents have since found other ways to get to work.
The 2021 Census commute mix settles it. About 50% of working residents drove, about 33% worked from home and about 4% walked, with cycling barely registering. About 52% of households had two or more cars and about 10% had none. In a village where more than half of homes run at least two cars, a one-car household is the minimalist.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey-time statistics put the nearest town centre about 11 minutes away by car, 15 by bike and 18 by public transport, with the walk taking just under half an hour. Nobody walks into town for a pint of milk, which is why the car is parked out front.
Gigabit broadband reaches about 85% of Hextable's premises and superfast about 98%. That suits the third of working residents whose commute ends at a router, which, on the census figures, makes the broadband more important to Hextable's working day than the railway.
Mobile coverage is no worry either, with every network offering 4G or 5G across about 98% of the area and at least one network everywhere.
For a typical commute, the arithmetic is simple. Drivers get a short run to the nearest town and onward roads, people with flexible jobs work from home, and the train at Swanley serves a small minority who need it and are willing to get themselves to the station first.
From the Department for Transport's figures, the nearest GP is about 7 minutes by car or 13 on foot, a food store about 10 minutes' walk or 7 by car, and hospital about 19 minutes by car or 39 by public transport. Employment centres come out at about 20 minutes by car and 15 by public transport. All of these are modelled averages for the area, and the public transport times date from 2019, so services cut since then make those the least dependable numbers here. A modelled bus that beats the car to work should be judged against that date.
The bus service itself is current: each of the 8 stops averages about 28 scheduled departures on a weekday, between one and two an hour at peak, and every stop has some weekend service. That counts as a usable service rather than a lifeline, provided the timetable fits your day.
Every postcode in Hextable is near or above 65 decibels of road noise, the level official noise mapping treats as significant, and the loudest band present reaches 75 decibels. No rail noise reaches that level. The mapping says nothing about how any particular house sounds inside, so view it at rush hour with the windows open and listen to the road outside. Being this easy to drive out of means living near the roads that make it possible.
Connectivity in Hextable is middling: excellent broadband and short drives, held back by a railway the village has mostly stopped using and buses that suit people who can work around them.