>The closest grocery store to me is 4 miles away. Prior to where I live now, it was 15!

Wow... then the edge of town, where we lived back home, was deep downtown in comparison. We could choose between about six to ten groceries (they would open and close at random ;), two bakers, a coffee roasting shop, dairy farm outlet (ah, real cheese...), two butcher shops. OK, about two third of the groceries probably weren't larger than your living room, but that only meant they had only one kind of milk, maybe two kinds of bread, no more than two or three kinds of mineral water, tooth paste etc, and there was no meat as their cold storage was very limited. But for the most part, one could find everything to cook a good lunch within this semicircle of a mile. Semicircle, because this _was_ the edge of town ;).