I'm very fortunate in that I live in an area that was developing during the 1920s and 1930s, when not everyone had a car, or a family might have had just one car, so the scale is highly walkable, there is high density of shopping & there are excellent sidewalks everywhere. Within less than a half-mile, I can buy groceries from a chain grocery store, work out at my gym, go to a cheese shop, a specialty fish shop, a butcher, four different liquor stores, six different restaurants, two bakeries, more delis than you can count, several laundromats, two day spas, a lot of gift & card shops, two coffee shops, a bridal boutique, a specialty running store, a pet shop, a small independently owned bookstore, a small fine arts cinema, a library, and the train station for the train down to Manhattan.
I sometimes spend half the weekend without starting the car.
It's why I bought my apartment here. I consider it an investment. When I am an older woman -- should I be fortunate to live so long -- and I can't drive very far, I still want to have a life. If I am still ambulatory, I will. (There's also a hospital down the street.)
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They weren't as amused as I was, but I was proud of us! The boys want homemade ice cream for an after dinner snack. So I made everybody walk a mile to the grocery store to pick up the half and half and the rock salt. 
So poor DH has to drive back to get it. 50 lbs was just a bit much for us to walk back with.
