Quote Originally Posted by jessmarimba View Post
I could be happy either in a cabin away from everything or in the middle of the city. It's the suburbs I hate. I'm surrounding by people but nothing useful is in walking distance. Except a gas station, which by nature probably needs driven to.
This. Or in my case (and the case where I grew up), there are things within walking distance, but there are no sidewalks. I could walk to the grocery store or the bank (it's about a mile), but they only recently put in sidewalks.
I have lived "in the city" (technically an older Cleveland suburb, but it was spitting distance from downtown). Everything I needed on a daily basis (grocery store, coffee shops (yes, that's necessary), post office, bank, some very good but cheap restaurants) was within walking distance. If I needed anything else (Target, Whole Foods, yarn), it was a short bus trip away. (Cleveland had pretty nice public transit).

Here, however (not helped by the fact that it's a very white-bread area), there are no sidewalks, and while everything I need on a daily basis is in walking distance, there are no sidewalks.