Reasonably, as long as you own a car and keep the tank full. Nursling is a driving place first and everything else a distant second, wired into Southampton and the surrounding road network far more than into any railway timetable. Around half of working residents commute by car, while more than a third now skip the commute altogether and work from home. Public transport exists but goes largely ignored, and the train barely features in how people here actually get to work. The honest summary is a comfortable car-based suburb rather than a public-transport dream.
On rail, the village has no station of its own, so anyone set on commuting by train heads for the edges. Redbridge, Millbrook and Totton stations all sit within reach on the Southampton side, and Southampton Central is the proper hub for direct trains to London and along the coast, for those willing to drive to the platform first. In practice almost nobody does. The share of residents commuting by train is close to a rounding error, barely one in two hundred. Buses cover the ground more thoroughly than the trains, with something like three hundred stops scattered across the wider area, yet they carry only about one in a hundred commuters. The infrastructure is there. The appetite for it is not.
Where the connection genuinely holds up is the digital one. Over half of homes can already reach gigabit broadband, and nearly nine in ten can get superfast speeds, which counts for a great deal in a place where more than a third of workers now do the job from a spare bedroom rather than an office. For a suburb leaning this heavily on working from home, that is the connectivity actually earning its keep.
For the daily reality, most journeys begin with the car keys. The nearest town centre is only about twelve minutes away by car, stretching to nearer twenty-seven by public transport, which explains in one line why the driveway always wins. The roads feed straight toward Southampton and onto the motorway network, so getting out is easy when the traffic behaves and a slow grind when it does not. This is a place built on the assumption that you will drive, and it rewards that assumption more than any other choice you could make.
The verdict is a fair, middling three out of five. Nursling is well connected for anyone content behind a wheel and served well enough by broadband to work from home in comfort, but lean on public transport to carry your week and the shine comes off in a hurry.