Opravy

(I have submitted my question here, because my text surpasses the limited characters allowance in the “question” section) Hi everybody !

I’m a newcomer in this community, I signed up yesterday in fact, I’d be pleased to help you with your french, just send me a message, though, to be honest, I prefer face to face conversation, so if you currently live in Paris or in the outskirts of the city, don’t hesitate to contact me basically :-) Now, I have a simple question (well, there are no simple questions you may argue...^^, but anyway here it is), is the sentence “I don’t live very far away from the doors of Paris” grammatically and commonly used in English ?

The part I am interested in is “from the doors of”, I could have said “from the centre of Paris” for example, but here what I want to convey is that I live near, or at relatively short distance away from the borders of the capital.

And I wonder if (can we use “whether” here, instead of “if” since we are at it, ^^) there is any other way of expressing this idea, maybe with the word “threshold” ?

Thanks a lot in advance for your answers.

(learning languages is so exciting, sorry, this statement comes out of the blue, but I couldn’t resist it, ^^)