Well enough, as long as the connection you care about is fibre rather than rail. Three railway stations sit within reach of the village and almost nobody uses one to get to work. Over half of working residents drive. More than a quarter do not commute at all. The broadband is genuinely excellent and the timetable is genuinely not, and the village has quietly organised itself around that fact.
On rail, the useful station is Par, with Lostwithiel and Luxulyan also within the area. Their presence looks better on a property listing than it does in the census: about 1% of working residents commute by train. Buses are similar. There are 33 bus stops across the area, and about 1% of people use one to get to work.
What people actually do is drive or stay put. Around 56% of working residents commute by car, and about 27% work from home, which between them account for the overwhelming share of the working population. Roughly 7% walk to work and about 1% cycle. Car ownership follows: around 42% of households run two or more vehicles, while about 15% have none at all. In a village where the bus turns up when it turns up, that second figure is the one that describes a genuine constraint rather than a lifestyle choice.
The Department for Transport's modelled journey times put the nearest town centre at around 19 minutes by car and 33 by public transport. Cycling comes out at about 36 minutes, and walking at roughly 96 minutes, which is not a commute so much as a hike with a purpose. These are modelled figures for the area rather than a route measured from any particular front door, and that caveat applies to every journey time here.
Broadband is where the village outperforms its size. Gigabit-capable service reaches around 96% of premises, ultrafast the same, and superfast covers effectively all of them. No premises fall below the universal service obligation. For a hilltop Cornish village, that is a better digital position than plenty of commuter towns with four trains an hour.
Mobile coverage is similarly sound. At least one operator provides fourth or fifth generation service across close to 100% of the area, and all operators together cover about 95%, so the network you already pay for will almost certainly work.
For everyday destinations, the same Department for Transport statistics put a general practitioner surgery at around 8 minutes by car, 16 by public transport and 22 on foot, and a food store at about 7 minutes by car or 12 walking. Employment centres come out at roughly 29 minutes by car and 48 by public transport. The hospital is the number that should shape the decision: about 55 minutes by car and 65 by public transport. Those public transport figures date from 2019 and rural services have been withdrawn since, so treat them as optimistic rather than current. The car and walk times age far better, because the distance to a hospital does not change when a route is cut.
Current bus data tells a more honest story than the stop count. Of the 33 stops, 27 carry scheduled service data, averaging 26 departures across a weekday. All 27 have some weekend service, which is more than many rural areas manage. The catch is the peak, where the average works out at 0.7 buses per stop in the busiest hour. That is a bus service in the sense that a bus exists.
Road noise is barely a factor. Around 2% of postcodes sit near or above 65 decibels, the threshold at which official noise mapping treats road traffic as significant, and the loudest band present in the area reaches 70 decibels. There is no measurable rail noise exposure at that threshold.
Connectivity here is middling, and the middle is held up entirely by the fibre. Buy on the assumption that the car does the moving and the broadband does the working, and the arrangement holds up perfectly well.