Do urbanites walk more?

So, my wife works on the weekends and uses the car as transit doesn't run early enough in our neighborhood for her to get to her work by 7:00 a.m.

So, my son and I will take transit or our feet to different things during the day.

Today, we had my nephews over and we walked over to a Chinese restaurant for dim-sum which as about two kilometers away.  It took less than 30 minutes but they both thought it was a bit of a long walk.  For my son and I that's not very long as we do tend to walk around to different things a lot.  Usually we go one of the closer establishments as we live within a 10 minute radius from about ten different restaurants or coffee shops, and a skytrain station.

Now, my nephews live in Maple Ridge in one of those sub-divisions up in the hills away from the city center as it allows them to have a large house and nice yard.  The only issue is that they have to drive everywhere, even to get groceries and there are definitely no restaurants within a 30 minute walk.

So, even though they live in a nice quiet neighborhood with woods nearby, it is ironic that they find walking a bit of a chore.  While us city dwellers are able to walk everywhere for most of our needs - groceries, pharmacy, public transportation, food, liquor store, 7-11, school, parks, and only by chance - a hospital.

I will have to add to my list of things to research an inquiry into whether city dwellers actually walk more than those that live in the suburbs, hidden away in their homes and depending on a car to even pick up a jug of milk.