My situation is similar to Chronos; I live in Chicago and work in a suburb, but the neighborhood I work in has a much more “urban” feel than the neighborhood I live in. Even though I can easily get there in half an hour on the train, I rarely go downtown; maybe a few times a year to see a play or for a medical appointment or something. For everything else, like restaurants and shopping, there are options just as good much closer to home. One exception would be that during the summer I often ride my bike along the lakefront, which takes me through an area which is “downtown” by any reasonable definition, but is still a bike path along the lake. But I don’t do anything there, I just ride through it.