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This is paranoid nonsense. I grew up in the suburbs and played in the streets and biked all over the place every day.
by fallingknife 4y ago
This is paranoid nonsense. I grew up in the suburbs and played in the streets and biked all over the place every day.
- matsemann 4y agoYes, but what about the kids growing up there now? Is it like it was? And paranoid, really?
- frumper 4y agoMy hometown is much more bike friendly now. It wasn't an issue 30 years ago when I was a kid, but now there are major bike/jogging paths cutting through town in a few different directions, bike lanes are wider and clearly marked, sometimes with barriers.
- fallingknife 4y ago
- matsemann 4y agoI'm not a parent, and you're missing the point to instead throw insults. Good on you for being so much better than everyone else, though.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoIt's still like that in poorer suburbs. Those kinds of parents aren't driving their kids everywhere.
- sohdas 4y agoI grew up in various Midwestern suburbs in the 2000s-2010s and it's almost exactly how you and the OP describe.
- ishjoh 4y agoI'm raising my kids in a subdivision that has a pool, a playground, and several parks close by, this is very standard for the subdivisions around here. My subdivision is full of kids unsupervised riding bikes, playing on the playground, riding scooters. All the subdivision roads have a low speed limit and its very easy to go miles on dedicated bike lanes that aren't just painted lines on a busy road but instead are separate paved areas off the roads. It helps that I live in one of the safest states in the union and that until relatively recently this was a very affordable place to buy a house and have a family. This exists in a lot of the newer larger metros, places that have seen lots of growth in the last 10-15 years.