This is my life pretty much.
"In town" here (3 miles for me) for example, milk is $5 a gallon.
If I run to Walmart or Aldi in the town 15 minutes away, milk is $1.05 gallon.
The nearest major city is only 35 minutes away, and I'm 10 minutes off an interstate, so its the best of both worlds IMO.
Walmart is 35 miles for the closest one for me. Our local grocery store has expired dairy, meat and shelf items on so many occasions I refuse to shop there so the next place is about 12 miles away. =/
Better yet is the health care here. My fave story. My husband's father was named Jesse and I am Jessica. He had hip replacement surgery when he was in his 80's I believe. Sadly he passed away many years ago now, but about a year after he died, I got a letter from the hospital network for the area telling me it was time for my annual hip replacement checkup. ......... umm. ... Ok our names were close...but you know, gender, age, social security number, address, I would assume different patient id numbers...deceased/living????
This is, of course, a teehee sort of example, but one I am just so confused by and sort of can show you that I can continue on with darker incidents, but that's not for here =)