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This article discusses the relationship between peri-urban residents and the territory they inhabit, and the practices through which this is manifested. The way this relationship is built and evolves shows a spatial and social anchoring process, resulting in a narrowing of the living areas for certain trip purposes and the progressive use of behavioral norms (strong associative investment, ability to exploit “invisible” resources of the territory). The potential for the development of an “alternative mobility” is discussed here in relation to these aspirations to proximity that, far from being understood solely by the single measure of vehicles-per-kilometer, refers to the regionalization of the social bond and the processing by residents of the spatial context of a suburban daily resource.