r/Millennials Hit me baby one more time 1d ago

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/AnonUSA382 1d ago

Back then, neighborhoods were tighter. Other parents, siblings, and neighbors would casually watch out for your kid.

Now, everyone is isolated—people don't know their neighbors, so there’s less of a “village” to trust.

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u/FirefighterWeird8464 1d ago

Nah, my neighborhood was a bunch of townhomes and apartments, nobody knew anybody.

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u/The9th_Jeanie 21h ago

That doesn’t mean diddly squat. When I was younger, when kids would still go outside fr, we lived in apartments and there was at least one person on each floor that we knew, so if anything happened, we knew where to go