It really depends on where you live of course. If you live on a farm, you can't expect to have a supermarket next door. However, the number of shopping malls i

It really depends on where you live of course. If you live on a farm, you can't expect to have a supermarket next door. However, the number of shopping malls is irrelevant; most shops are not in malls. In cities, there's generally shopping streets that have a wide variety of all sorts of shops. In suburban areas, there's often a small shopping center with one or two supermarkets, a Chinese restaurant, a snackbar, and a couple of other shops. Big American-style malls are rare here. And supermarkets are very common. Just Netherland alone has over 6000 of them, and at least 6 of those are within 1.5 km from my home. There's a shopping center 500 m from my house, and a major shopping steet 1 km in the other direction. Stuff is dense, exactly because it doesn't focus on massive malls. And for anything they don't have in my neighbourhood, I take my bike. Of course this is a city; in small villages you'll probably still need a car for anything beyond bread and basic groceries.