• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    For kids growing up in car-dependent suburbia, outside does not exist. If you can’t drive, you’re trapped in your home, unless you want to just go for a walk among endless identical winding cookie cutter streets.

    Where is a kid in suburbia supposed to go that’s actually within walking distance? I suppose they could just hang out on the street. But homeowners seeing a group of teen loitering on the sidewalk in front of their home will call the cops. Hell, sometimes just walking around is enough to get a group of teens harassed by police.

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      6 days ago

      “Hell” sound like an accurate description. I wouldn’t want to live in such a place as an adult, much less a minor.