There’s a 24 hour convenience block seven blocks from my house, and a 24 hour grocery two blocks down from that.
Half my land is swamp, replete with all the attendant wild animals you’d expect in a suburban swamp. And I have the necessary tools for hunting, dressing and cooking them. So, a couple hundred feet, I guess.
Mmmmm… Fried Skunk. :: Drool ::
I’m less than a block from a Swiss Chalet, 24 hour convenience store, and Starbucks. I’m less than two blocks from two different barss and a good pizza place. I’m four blocks from one of the best ice cream places in the city, and three from a grocery store.
Not going to starve.
I have a small convenience store / deli 2 blocks from my house. Not really a NICE store/deli, but it sure has food.
For 24hr food needs, I have a supermarket about a 5 minute drive away that never closes.
There is a convenience mart a mile down the road. It is open 24 hours.
I live thirty metres from an intersection. If I cross both roads to the diagonally opposite corner, there’s a pub that serves meals. If I turn left instead and walk another fifty metres, there’s a petrol station with hideously overpriced groceries. If I ignore that intersection totally, and instead walk ten minutes the other way, there is a nod hideously overpriced but overpriced anyway “minimart”. There are also kebab shops, bbq chicken shops, etc. Twenty minutes’ walk in yet another direction has me at the huge cheap supermarket, dozens of ethnic restaurants, and KFC etc.
My apartment building has a convenience store in the lobby, for which our card keys double as charge cards.
If it’s after 10pm, there’s another convenience store about two blocks away.
If it’s after 2am, I’d have to hop on my bike and ride for about 15-20 minutes to Asakusa (or maybe there’s something closer by near the train station. I haven’t had a chance to look yet).
I’m ten miles from the nearest grocery store/fast food/gas station. Unless I slaughter and eat my horses or dogs, I’m driving to get something.
StG
Within three blocks therea are 3 minimarts, a soul food restaraunt, a bakery, and Salvadorian place that is open late.
We live next door to a nice upscale pub. There is a pizza and sandwich joint around the corner, a couple of convenience stores down the street from the pizza place, and two supermarkets (one of them open 24/7) five minutes drive away.
Not too shabby for Amishland! ;0)
Strip mall that has a liquor store that sells chips, etc., a new Mexican restaurant that is just opening and a Rosati’s Pizza - 0.45 miles.
Shopping Center with Liquor Store, Deli, Italian Restaurant and Eurofresh Grocery Store - 0.87 miles.
Tack on another block and I’ve got a McDonald’s, a Burger King, Coffee Shop, Burger/Gyros/Hot Dog joint, a pancake house, and your typical Greek restaurant.
I’d probably starve, though - I’m REALLY lazy and wouldn’t want to walk - especially if it was cold out. 
Couple of miles one direction to a 7-11, couple of miles in the other to a RaceTrak or a Ruby Tuesday, just beyond the RaceTrak is Fast Food Heaven.
Here I can walk half a dozen blocks to a bakery, a 24-hour convenience store just beyond that, and a Chinese place I wouldn’t trust at all. There’s a farmer’s market half a block past there that has really good tamales as well as the fruit and veggies, and a take-and-bake pizza place just a little farther. Nothing very exciting except the tamales.
Around the place I lived in Vancouver, on the other hand, within half a dozen blocks there were a wonton cafe and a Thai place (both family-run), a corner store, a produce store, an eastern-European deli with some hot food, a little mall with a supermarket, bakery, and liquor store, McDonalds, two pizza places (one with good pizza to take out, the other with beer on tap), a coffee house, and another Thai place. There’s another corner store the other way, an eastern-European restaurant, and probably more I’ve missed.
I’m in Brooklyn, New York.
There are three 24-hour “corner stores” within one block of my house, one of which is right across the street.
Of course, around midnight they lock up and you have to pay/get your stuff through a little window.
Heh, real food is closer than anything else. There is a tapas restaurant less than a quarter block from me and a coffee shop that makes really good sandwiches less than half a block. Just under a block the other way is a liquor store and a 7-11.
The restaurant Il Buco is a 10 second walk across Bond St. from my place here in NYC.
I live out in the boonies but happen to be near the only convenience store for miles. So if it’s before 10 PM, it’s a three-minute walk.
There’s a McDonalds across the street, and behind that a 24 hour supermarket.
Hmm… within 1/4 mile of my home…
A QFC, A Safeway, A Walgreens, a bakery, a deli, a cafe, a Pizza Hut, a greek restaurant, 2 more pizza places, a Subway, a McDonalds, a gas station or two, 2 mexican restaurants… within a 1/2 mile you could add a pancake place, another mexican place, Dick’s… another gas station… and probably more I’m just not thinking of at the moment.
I’m never very hungry.
Within a stone’s throw of mi casa: two McDonaldses, 4 Mediterranean restaurants, Red Lobster, a swankier seafood spot, TGI Fridays, Chili’s, two Wendy’ses two Quiznos, Jimmy John’s, about three Chinese food places, various bars, many pizza joints, yadda yadda yadda.
Yeah, it’s not so bad.