Sure, so in that case you pick something up on the way to/from work. I'm not arguing that rural lifestyles have lower transport requirements in their totality

Sure, so in that case you pick something up on the way to/from work. I'm not arguing that rural lifestyles have lower transport requirements in their totality - they obviously don't - just that the '15 mins to get X' example is absurd, because it describes a strawman journey that very rarely actually occurs. Even in my youth living in the suburbs of a small town in the UK you rarely went "in to town" to buy one thing because it's just not worth it.