Moderately, as long as a car does the connecting. The trains stop somewhere else. The buses run more often than the stations would suggest. A quarter of workers skip the commute altogether. Lydd is connected to the rest of Kent the way a cul-de-sac is connected to a motorway: eventually.
Lydd once had an extensive narrow-gauge railway network. Now the nearest stations are in other towns: Rye, Appledore, Ham Street and Westenhanger. At the 2021 census, about 1% of working residents took the train to work and about 2% took the bus, even though the area has 148 bus stops. Having the stops isn't the same as anyone using them to get to work.
Most people drive, and plenty of households have more than one car. About 62% of working residents drove to work and about 24% worked from home. Walking accounted for about 5% and cycling about 1%. Only about 12% of households have no car, and about 46% have two or more. The work-from-home share is the local answer to not having a station.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times, which describe the area in general rather than a route from any particular door, put the nearest town centre about 30 minutes away by car. By public transport it's 46 minutes, by bike 66 and on foot about 119, which is two hours of marsh with nothing to stop for. Nobody walks into town from Lydd, and the modelling agrees.
Other everyday trips follow the same pattern. A GP is about 12 minutes by car, 20 by public transport and 57 on foot. A hospital is about 42 minutes by car and 88 by public transport. A food shop is easier, at about 18 minutes' walk or 9 minutes' drive. To reach employment the modelling gives about 55 minutes by car and 37 by public transport. The public transport figures are from 2019, and services can be cut since then without the model noticing, so trust the car and walking times more than the bus ones.
The bus service is better than the commuting figures suggest. On a typical weekday each stop averages about 36 scheduled departures, with around 2 an hour at peak times, and about 97% of stops get at least some weekend service. Those are current timetables, not modelled times. A bus a half-hour at peak is usable but not a service anyone plans a career around.
Broadband is patchy. Gigabit-capable connections reach about 43% of premises, and superfast broadband about 69%. About 1% fall below the universal service obligation, the legal minimum for a decent connection. For a household relying on working from home, the exact address matters more than the town average, so check it before the survey rather than after moving in.
Mobile coverage is not the problem. About 100% of the area gets 4G or 5G from at least one operator, and about 99% from all of them.
Road noise affects a minority. About 14% of postcodes are near or above 65 decibels, the level at which official noise mapping treats road noise as significant, and the loudest band recorded is 70 decibels. No postcodes come close to that level for rail noise, which makes sense in a town with no railway.
Electric car owners will do most of their charging at home. The area has 3 public charge points with 4 connectors between them, and none of them are rapid. On the marsh, charging is something to plan ahead, because a rapid top-up while shopping isn't an option.
For a typical working week, a Lydd household with a car and a decent line can make it work. A household relying on a station, a hospital nearby or gigabit broadband being taken for granted will find the gaps quickly.
Connections here are middling: good enough by car, weak by rail, and patchy online. The distances are fixed, so only the car and the broadband can change the picture.