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Yeah.

Suburbs can be built with sidewalks and bike paths.

I'm in a suburb in Australia where I can walk across one road to get to a small local shops or about 15 minutes safe walk from a reasonable sized supermarket.

I can ride on bike paths for 15 km to my job as well.

There are some places in the US like this. I used to ride on bike paths to work near Washington DC.

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I'm in a wealthy suburb of Salt Lake City where I can walk to the nearest grocery store, or take my kids to school in a cargo bike on miles of protected bike paths. It's wonderful, but it's also much more expensive to live here than in suburbs without those sorts of amenities. I'm a bit of a sucker for online urbanism (I've spent a lot of time in the Netherlands and it's hard not to want that sort of infrastructure here in the US) but I always feel a bit icky about how "strong towns" basically mean rich towns in the US.

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