For me, it's the fact that new single family developments are unwalkable and a major contributor to childhood depression. Children are meant to be out and about

For me, it's the fact that new single family developments are unwalkable and a major contributor to childhood depression. Children are meant to be out and about. This can happen in the rural countryside where kids can play in woods and the like. It can happen in the city where kids can hang out around town and see all kinds of people. It cannot happen in a suburb because the cars are too fast, there are too many of them, and there's no safe place for kids to walk by themselves. And even if they could in most bedroom towns, there's nothing to do. For me, I'd live in the country or the city never the suburbs. I had to beg my parents to take me anywhere. My kids just leave the house and find friends or say hi to neighbors. No effort on our part and they get to be free.