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I see kids out throwing frisbees, baseballs, and footballs in my neighborhood, shooting hoops where an alley meets the street. I see them skateboarding as well.
by cafard 3y ago
I see kids out throwing frisbees, baseballs, and footballs in my neighborhood, shooting hoops where an alley meets the street. I see them skateboarding as well. On Saturday, my wife and I saw a girl of five or six ride her bike along Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park, with no parent visible to us. Now, the closed-off section of Beach Drive is pretty benign, but the apparent independence of this child was interesting.
- fragmede 3y agoThat sounds quite lovely, but understand that outside your corner of DC, that's not how a lot of places are. To their detriment.
- anon291 3y agoThe district of columbia is mostly urban with some old-fashioned suburbs (not the modern ones I criticized), so I don't know what relevance this is supposed to have.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoDC and its suburbs are some of the wealthiest places in the US, and many have excellent public transit, old neighborhoods, good schools, and safe communities. I'd let my kids play outside there, too. SE DC is a different story -- there is a reason they changed the DC basketball team from "Bullets" to the "Wizards" -- but if you're in Northern DC or nearby, like Bethesda, you're straight up posh.