>>Have you been to the States recently? In 99% of cases there's nothing you can walk to, unless it's the walk itself that you want. Lemme check, in my area:
>>- nearest grocery, 3km
>>- nearest 7-11, 2.5 km
>>- nearest shop of any kind, 1 km - and it's a gas station :)
>>- nearest mall - 1.5 km, but there's nothing there that you may need day-to-day, just fun and fashion stuff. Luckily, it also has a bookstore, but it's on the other end - 2km.
>>- nearest park - 1 km
>>- nearest library - 6km
>>- beach - 13 km
>>- daughter's school - 9 km
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>It's not my fault you decided to stay so far away from civilization ;->

My neighbors seem civilized OK... it's just that there's so many of them between me and anything else.