I said necessities instead of specifying food or clothes because for some people, items which are hard to impossible to find in small towns can be considered ne

I said necessities instead of specifying food or clothes because for some people, items which are hard to impossible to find in small towns can be considered necessities for a contented existence. Similarly, necessities might be friends with a shared (rare) interest that you might have to drive for hours to meet with outside of concentrated urban environments. I struggled over how to word it and I guess I failed. I was trying to get at the point that living in a city can easily broaden what you consider to be essential. If I was only considering American style urban vs. rural environments, the notion of being able to walk to a grocery store in an urban environment wouldn't be true either (for suburbs).