And different people like different things. I live in the suburbs and there's somewhere on the order of 20+ restaurants I can get to within 15 minutes (and probably about 10 within 7-8 minutes. And I can also, like the poster you were responding to, go to several different stores, pick up a carload of stuff, and get back home.

If I want to do city things, I jump on the train (or drive) into a city and do city things for the day/night. But I don't want to live there.