Before moving to the city in 2017, we lived six blocks from about the midpoint (near Hwy 6) of the Terry Hershey park hike and bike trail along Buffalo Bayou. Could ride from our house to the trail, then ride to the east end at Beltway 8, turn back and ride to the west end at Fry Road, then back to where I started and home, almost no public roads and nearly 40 miles of riding. Lived there 25 years, and I got spoiled. Riding in a neighborhood is slow and uninteresting. Getting to a trail requires carrying bike(s) by car to a parking lot, as most city streets here, as most places, are not even remotely bike friendly.
Consequently our bikes just hang in the garage and we use a treadmill and multi gym in the house. We can walk to Mary Jo Peckham park, but the trail there is just a short loop and useless for biking. Even on foot, about once around and interest drops, plus is often noisy on weekends.
So why did we move? There's more to where you live than exercise. Neighborhood was on the decline (spouse's opinion) and we wanted to get out of Houston before the city/fire/police pension time bomb hits. Also one of us (yes, you guessed, it wasn't me) wanted a backyard big enough for a pool. I just wanted another city or another city's ETJ, so we couldn't get annexed by Houston.
