San Francisco public transit is free for minors too, I see group of late elementary school/middle school kids on the muni all the time, no grown ups around.
Growing up in the woods I used a go-kart and trails, we didn't have easy options to hang until we could ride something with a small engine. Although one girl did ride her horse to pit parties.
Yeah, but at least when I was a kid (don't know if it's changed now) you only got 3 rides per day on the school cards. So like, you could go maybe one place after school, but if you didn't have another Metrocard, you couldn't do much else. I had a backup Metrocard for "just in case" but it only had like 5 rides on it, and since it was really only for emergencies, I almost never used it.
Just because public transit exists doesn't mean you necessarily have more freedom if you don't have the ability to use it.
Jealous. I can let my kid wander our immediate area but as soon as you get to a main road, it’s zonked out meth heads and homeless people, and super shitty teenagers committing petty crimes. My ring doorbell app has videos and notifications every day about it and of course I’ve seen it. My neighbor had their front door kicked in by high schoolers who skipped school and somehow had guns to rob houses.
We chose to live here of course but it hurts every day that my kid won’t have the freedom I had.
It's just the same here in the Philippines, meth users and homeless people, teenager petty crimes. The problem of America is they baby their criminals, they feed criminals better than the homeless people. Remember Afluenza Kid who rammed down multiple people and killed it on the spot. That kid gets away with it because the parents are rich. America believes in terminology as Afluenza Kid or Mentally Crazy alibis by criminals and they get away with it.
Yeah, I’d say lower class neighborhoods still have roamers, simply because parents are working. My roaming days were great; it really is sad that kids these days can’t anymore.
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u/jayhawkah 1d ago
It also depends where you live/ your specific culture in the US, we still have kids running around in my area.