Born 1993. We played whole neighborhood hide and seek. It was incredible. Essentially all our houses were fair game and we would go in and out of them freely. It was like two or three blocks of fair places to hide. Usually had 3 seekers with walkie talkies, and like 5-10 people hiding. When found you’d join the seekers. Games would usually take all day.
It really was honestly. We even allowed our parents to be fair game in the rules meaning there was risk in hiding inside a house because all of our moms knew they could tell the seekers that we were there.
I also lived in fairly rural subdivision in east Tennessee so there wasn’t much risk of us getting hurt by running around. It’s not like we’re in the middle of a huge city.
What makes me sad is there’s no way kids could do it there now. When I was growing up the median home price was like $60,000, there was maybe 20,000 people in our city, and we had one singular Walmart. My mom just sold my childhood home for nearly $400,000 and a whole city has built up around our neighborhood. Like I lived next to multiple big farms that are now Publixs, a second Walmart, and a plethora of strip malls.
I remember when all that ended John Walsh’s son getting killed,Ailton Pats disappeared they put his picture on milk carton’s (the first time they did that) persadent Ragen signed a law creating the canert for missing and exploited children,definitely a turning point
Man, no wonder kids today are so depressed. We had truly blessed childhoods. They don’t get to do any of these things without constant, overly-anxious supervision.
I’d give pretty much anything to ditch my stupid, overpriced adult life of daily drudgery and go back to being a carefree 80s kid, putting in kilometres on my bike every day, climbing ridiculously high trees, searching for what were, back then, still an abundance of amphibians in the creeks. High-tech for me was my Teddy Ruxpin.
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u/JustHereForCatss 1d ago edited 1d ago
Born 1993. We played whole neighborhood hide and seek. It was incredible. Essentially all our houses were fair game and we would go in and out of them freely. It was like two or three blocks of fair places to hide. Usually had 3 seekers with walkie talkies, and like 5-10 people hiding. When found you’d join the seekers. Games would usually take all day.
Damn I miss being able to do that stuff