Dense cities can offer this too when there's not much in the way of suburban sprawl. One thing I miss since moving to San Francisco from the UK is now I need a

Dense cities can offer this too when there's not much in the way of suburban sprawl. One thing I miss since moving to San Francisco from the UK is now I need a car to access nature. There was something very pleasant about taking a train to the edge of the city to go on a hike and ending up at a pub for a few beers before taking the train home again. In Oslo in the winter you'd see people with cross country skis on the metro since the forest trails at the edge of town were easily accessible.