Not counting nice walks in prospect Park, I can get on the metro north train and go on a variety of hikes. It's not 20 steps, but I also get all the other benefits of a city.

Also Manhattan isn't known for smog, and there is a lot more to New York than Manhattan. Go look at like park slope or Astoria

I'm a little amused by the down votes.

Yes some cities have a lot of perks, no the air quality isn't as bad as the 60s, but pretending that taking the metro to the park is comparable to living in a forest is a little silly.

I'm from the country side and I very much like easy access to nature, but New York is a great city, especially with all the parks! The subway is bomb

Yeah, I think you're being a bit hyperbolic, but I generally agree. I live about an hour from Manhattan (from the Holland, and then another hour to get through lololol), but I'm fifteen minutes from a reservoir that you can hike and boat, fifteen minutes from farms. My town is walkable, and I can walk to a hospital, grocery store, and library in, you guessed it, fifteen minutes. I'm an hour and change from the shore, about the same from the Poconos. I like having access to all the places, but I like to live in suburbia.

It's funny how you can immediately tell when someone has never been to a big city

Smog hasn't been a problem in US cities since like the 60s...