Rubbish, you're not 3 minutes walk from a mountain or the sea or nature or a forest. People in cities are weird, they don' know their neighbours, can't leave their doors open or let their kids roam freely. I hate cities and would never live in one again. I've lived in a couple. London (too many foreigners) and Osnabruck (which was far superior to London), but I've also lived in towns and villages and I can assure you that I'd live in a town or city any day of the week rather than a city, there's no competition at all. I'm 5 minutes from the sea 5 minutes from the hills, live next to a forest, I see wildlife every day such as deer and foxes etc. Kids can go out and play and roam the fileds/woods without needing to worry about weirdo's and junkies. if I want to visit a city I am about 20 minutes drive from 3 different ones - although I rarely go to them and when I do I am glad to get home again.3 minutes of a walk or basically everything.
I'd rather live in the mountains of Bavaria than live in a city on earth.