What does "beyond a daily commute" mean?
In the following sentence,

"It is not too rich or too poor, not too expensive or too scruffy, not too close to the crowded city center but not so far that its tree-lined streets of tidy apartments are beyond a daily commute"

I was expecting that tidy apartments are "within a daily commute" or something that describe why it is not so far. But it is
"beyond a daily commute" and I understand it means out of region that you can do a daily commute which is opposite to what I thought.

What is the exactly meaning of it?

This passage is from the article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/world/europe/how-a-sleepy-german-suburb-explains-europes-rising-far-right-movements.html

Question

What does "beyond a daily commute" mean?
In the following sentence,

"It is not too rich or too poor, not too expensive or too scruffy, not too close to the crowded city center but not so far that its tree-lined streets of tidy apartments are beyond a daily commute"

I was expecting that tidy apartments are "within a daily commute" or something that describe why it is not so far. But it is 
 "beyond a daily commute"  and I understand it means out of region that you can do a daily commute which is opposite to what I thought.

What is the exactly meaning of it?

This passage is from the article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/world/europe/how-a-sleepy-german-suburb-explains-europes-rising-far-right-movements.html

Answer

Don't forget the earlier part of the sentence. We can shorten it to:

Not so far that it's beyond a daily commute

It's almost a double negative, and the meaning is what you expected - this suburb is a reasonable commute to the city

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