Boy troubles

My friend hooked me up with one of her friends, and we texted for weeks and both agreed we wanted a relationship from eachother but wanted to meet eachother first. A while later we went on a movie date, and I brought it up again, he said he wanted to make it special. A month later I asked if he was still up for us being a thing he said yes and he wanted to get to know me more in person before we date. Then after hanging out a bunch I mention it again and he says that maybe he doesn't want to date someone who lives so far away (45 minutes) because we would never get to see eachother. And all we would have to do it make plans and we could hang distance isn't the problem. I'm so confused any advice?!?