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American style subdivisions are the absolute worst for kids, nothing to do at all.

Walk around the same 5 streets with 150 houses around, get kicked out of all of the common areas by Karens and HOAs.

Kids don't go outside there either because there is not much of a point, if you're lucky there may be a tennis court that you can hang out at.

Good luck going to see your friends from school though, even though they live in the neighborhood across the street, the street in question is a 5 lane highway with no pedestrian bridge or tunnels.

Wanna go somewhere with other kids your age, better hope you can have someone drive you.

It’s not just the kids’ cell phones. It’s the 24 hour outrage and fear driven by the news and/or social media. So their parents won’t encourage them to wander off, and as others have mentioned the neighbors will call the cops on them if they do wander.

I live in a residential neighborhood. The main demographic that can afford to move in to the suburb is people already nearing retirement with grown up kids. My kids are constantly bored out of their heads outside because there's nothing to do, nowhere to go, and nobody to play with. We've hosted seven exchange students and the number one culture shock is the loss of independence that goes with moving into a car dependent suburb. Our city design, pretty much everywhere in the US, blows ass. We could be doing so many things so much better, and it would actually cost everyone, taxpayers included, less money. We are all literally paying orders of magnitude more to do the stupid shitty thing and pretending that it's great.