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Man alive! I was taking the bus home from school by myself from FIRST grade.

• malkia 16y ago
  My boss, a native californian, told me that he used to take the bike and cycle for about mile, two or more to his school, and then back (San Fernando Valley).
  • ugh 16y ago
    And that’s special? Jesus. I was walking to elementary school starting in first grade (half a mile) and biking to my next school right from the beginning (fifth grade, a bit more than a mile) and I was taking the bus when the weather was too bad for me to take the bike (which includes walking half a mile to the nearest bus station). That’s nothing special in Germany. Everyone does it.
    • malkia 16y ago
      Well nowadays in US you pretty much can't (or don't) do it. And many other things. My father laughed a lot the first time I got drunk at 13, no big deal really, but here that would be taken as bad parenting.
    • elblanco 16y ago
      I live in boring suburbia. The elementary, middle and high schools are a 10, 15 and 20 minute walk from house respectively. Somehow, I still have to contend with kids all over the neighborhood dutifully lining up so that the bus can come pick them up at the crack of dawn and then drive them, 2...maybe 3 minutes to their schools. It's stupid.