Living with out a car is not hard. You just have everything in reach. In Arizona that reach was 10 miles + In Minnesota its more like 5 miles. The difference is winter. Yet even here at 5 miles everything is close. In AZ everything was so spread out you needed 10 miles to get anywhere with out just houses. Here is a list of places I normally go. 3 miles to the transit center. .5 mile to bus. The transit center has a certain bus which is very efficient in getting you downtown. Minneapolis at all times of the day. 3 miles to work .2 and .7 miles to food,clothing,dollar store,department,post office,Doctors Office,drug store,my bank,shoe store, police, record store,surplus store, College is a bit of a bitch. (always has been) 7 miles and 10 miles Mom and sisters are 40 miles Don't see them much.