Ah but we could all be 5 mins away if we were happy to live in the middle of nowhere. Mull might be pretty (on a good summer day) but its hardly the big city. Or even the small one.
Mine is 30 miles away down the M4 as indeed is the capital.
A reasonable enough drive, starting on yellow roads, speeding up once we're on the long red one, gets more hectic as we slip onto the big blue road, then a timely descent past supermarkets, houses, fields, and industrial estates, until we grind to a halt 25 metres from the water.
Going home takes 15 mins longer, because we hit the chippie just before getting on the big blue road again.