There are certainly places you can live (even relatively affordable ones!) that you can have this in the US. I live in Chicago within a 3 minute walk I have my

There are certainly places you can live (even relatively affordable ones!) that you can have this in the US. I live in Chicago within a 3 minute walk I have my choice of Jewel/Osco or Trader Joe's (which are both right by an L stop, so they're accessible to other people near the L as well). An extra few minutes and I can go to Target. An extra 10 minutes and I can walk to Whole Foods or Mariano's. My rent isn't super low (~1650/month + electricity for a ~700 sq ft 1 br; parking would be $200+ extra if I had a car) but a CTA pass is only $100 / month and it's pretax. Of course not every part of Chicago is like this.