"Neighborhoods used to be packed with kids running around all the time." Exactly how my childhood was, too. "Be back by dinner, call if you'll be late" were m

"Neighborhoods used to be packed with kids running around all the time." Exactly how my childhood was, too. "Be back by dinner, call if you'll be late" were my instructions as a kid. My wife and I are about to buy a house and we drove all over our target town, and eventually settled on the neighborhood where we saw the most kids outside playing and/or roaming around in a group.