Well, I like being far from the "stuff" of "civilization" myself, that way *I* get to chose when and how much to interact with it all. I think it's better to interact proactively rather than have it forced on you, but that's me - some people would go stir-crazy or be bored, I suppose. Most adapt by never losing their approval-seeking behavior if they're forced into constant human interaction, IMO. I feel like not having to kiss butt every minute is an advantage, personally. From my pov, gawd, people have enough power over you already and you willingly give them more? Not for me.
All it means to be far from things like that is that you should plan better.
I actually spend fewer miles/beer than most, I'd suspect - you just buy more per trip and make fewer of them. Same with groceries and most other things. Of course, with the advent of the USPS, UPS, Fedex, one need not leave home for almost everything anyway. What's funny is that yes, it's ten miles to "anyplace" and a near neighbor might be a mile (my nearest is about 1/4 mile, but house to house it's twice that).
But after that ten miles you're right in the middle of it. A 30 mile drive puts you in Blacksburg (VA Tech's town) and 20 more puts you in Roanoke/Salem (civic centers, opera, major hospitals -- and high crime). So it's not really in the middle of nowhere, it's just a pocket of nice hidden in the usual dreck.
I only really need to get groceries once a month, but I do go more often. With my food stash (which I plan to write up for here), I really don't need to go in any given year, since I normally rotate through that to keep the stash fresh. In other words, most of the groceries I buy today go into the stash, and I mostly eat out of the stash. Fresh stuff is the only big exception there.
Yeah, I got pretty good "mileage" going out but it's kind of a cheat. I go downhill for more than half the trip to town, being up in the higher altitudes where I live, and they being down on the lower slopes. The regeneration works a lot better than I'd have predicted, it's nearly theoretic efficiency; I am an engineer, so I dig that stuff. But what you gain on the skinnies you lose on the shies - coming home I get to climb that mountain and there's no cheating that law of physics when you need to go up in altitude with X pounds. Foot-pounds are just foot-pounds, and they gotta come from somewhere.
You're right about the Camaro being funner on twisty roads (the only kind we have, almost). But on another level, you get frustrated because you can't really exercise it like it wants to be - no vision around those, and believe me, around here, you can (and I have) find a deer, a couple cows, stupid people parked in the road looking at a tree that's fallen (instead of moving it off the road, duh) and so on right around one of them - so to do that, even though the car made it easy, you are in a state of wondering if you're going to die right now every single time. Horses don't have headlights (and we have horse traffic) so nighttime doesn't solve that either.
The thing was a real pain in bumper to bumper traffic with the low torque at the bottom and that manual tranny, FWIW. You can feel the life of the clutch ebbing away (or think so). Not as bad as the new hot-rod Dodges in that regard, but bad enough.
So, the fact that the Camaro could do 1.3+ gees and this is "only" about 1 isn't really that big a deal. One gee is pretty exciting after all - it would easily roll my truck over, for example. Unless your thing in life is intimidating Mustang owners, it's kind of excessive. I did get a movie of a hot run in the Camaro, but the older camera didn't do that great a job, and the camera holder was freaking out with the gee's and I got a lot of pictures of the ceiling and her feet...and some shrieks.
My Dad and I made some of the first electric conversions back in the 60's and 70's and boy, they were dogs, lemme tell you. It was the dancing bear - you were amazed it could but it didn't pay to look too close at how well it could dance. We gave it up, they all stank. This is the other extreme, this thing is pretty darned quick and all the modern accouterments, it needs no excuses at all about anything.
And at least in theory - I can run it forever off my spare electricity, which, once I set up the system, is free, or real close. I have solar panels in my system bought in '82 that are still "like new".
Which is another topic I need to get written up here, since I had to learn all the tricks the hard way and can share how to avoid the mistakes for others to benefit from. This provides me a "sink" for when I have excess, which is now the norm here, rather than just pulling the switch and watching all that free power fly away.
Solar tech guys call it a "diversion load". This is a pretty cool one, beats heating a resistor to no particular end other than avoiding overcharging the main house batteries, or having to disconnect the panels.