I would love to live near the water! 🙂 We're a half-hour's drive away, which is decently close enough to make a day of it but not close enough to just go for a walk and enjoy it whenever we please.
Well, that's beach-wise anyway. We also have a muddy river within a 3km walk and a muddy lagoon. But it's not the same!
Yeah, same for the water here, it does require a bike drive, although it's a little faster than half an hour :-)
We live in the middle of farmland now and it's basically just fields and flatland as far as the eye can see. I mostly miss forests to walk in. There is one surrounding our town, but during winter, you can see right through it onto the farmland. That's how small it is 😅