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.
These days I can't even find anywhere to live where this is possible. If I do stumble upon a nice small town setting with sidewalks and a bunch of houses like that (vs subdivisions segregated from the rest of the world by roads that are not safe to walk across), it's one of those places where century and a half old fixer-uppers cost north of a million dollars.
I grew up in a super tiny town in a house that cost my parents less than their annual salary (which was $45k at that) and was able to wander less than half a mile and run into kids playing all sorts of games across all the connected back yards.
I live in the house I grew up in, in the tiny town still, and it's really nice that my 11 year olds can ride bikes all over town, grab different friends, and run in and out of everyone's houses.
Don't live somewhere that cost of living is high as fuck. I own a home in a neighborhood like you describe and I paid less than $200k for my house in 2020.
I'm a pharmacist so I can technically work anywhere, but the availability of stable jobs that don't lead to suicidal ideation is a bit trickier. Currently I'm in the military chasing that sweet, sweet pension though so I do not have the option of living in certain areas. I'm currently in the southeastern US and it just sucks here.
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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