Yeah, this. There are many arguments against suburbs, but they're relatively good places for kids. Big gardens, quiet roads, full of young families with similar

Yeah, this. There are many arguments against suburbs, but they're relatively good places for kids. Big gardens, quiet roads, full of young families with similar age kids, and relatively free of the stuff people don't want their kids interacting with like bars and liquor stores, gang culture and street crime, "bad example" young adults and places they really shouldn't be exploring, so if anything they're a reason for parents to be less protective about letting kids go off on their own. Kids aren't glued to their phones because there isn't a street of coffee shops and delis to buy £5 drinks and £10 sandwiches or a nightclub scene, and they wouldn't tend to go to the art gallery or library to play if moved somewhere more urban, they'd hang around on street corners, head to small parks that aren't dissimilar to the suburban ones or go explore the relative abundance of derelict buildings, industrial sites and railway sidings. Particularly amusing to see British style terraced housing painted as a solution, as if the street corners the kids who grow up there hang out on (if they go outside at all) are some kind of idyll suburbia is depriving them of with its gardens and lack of corner stores that'll sell them vapes.