My own personal experience. We made the mistake of buying a suburban town home next to a state highway with an HOA. At the time it seemed great but as our kids

My own personal experience. We made the mistake of buying a suburban town home next to a state highway with an HOA. At the time it seemed great but as our kids got older, they wanted to play outside. We’d get letters from the HOA about the kids playing in the street and how that wasn’t allowed cause of the bylaws. We ignored them and let them continue to do what they want. One time a board member tried yelling at the kids and my wife flipped out on her. Now one of my boys wants to walk outside of the neighborhood. He’s thirteen and at the age I was when I’d run around everywhere on my bike. We don’t have decent sidewalks here and traffic on the main road is 45MPh and they are legit assholes around here who don’t pay attention and are always on their phone while driving. My wife doesn’t want to let him walk to friends and I understand why. Our environments are built for cars, not for people, to travel. Too many stories of Bobby or Suzie getting hit by cars. I’m working to petition the three townships that manage our town to invest in sidewalks cause I’d love for him to be able to run around but at least with that buffer. So, I get safetyism. I don’t want to lose my children. I also don’t want them to experience life through an ipad so anything they want to do, we’ll go do it. We actually did do a walk down the road a few weeks back, trying to show them how to hug the road or go into the grass to stay away from cars. Once they’re in town, the sidewalks are nice but being right on the edge, we get left out.