Does anyone live on a road like this, do they still exist?

We live in exactly this kind of area :)

Yep. Village near Clitheroe in Lancashire. Also has an ofsted outstanding school.

I live in a small new build estate like this, it's lovely. 9 kids on my street of 5 houses. Big ones look out for the little ones. My DD is out front at the moment being shown how to roller skate by the older girl next door, who's given her her outgrown roller skates.

Loads of places like this near me. They're not roads though, they're the new build estates.

My cul de sac is like this. It's part of a big housing development in a city suburb. Fairly wealthy area. Speed bumps are everywhere so cars are slow to approach and the houses have driveways big enough for 2 or 3 cars so no cars on the roadway. Little greens on each cul de sac and a larger one nearby. As kids get older their stomping ground extends. There are popular spots around, 'the ditch', 'the tree' where kids congregate.

Our road was resurfaced a few years ago and we have become a popular spot for visitors. Toddlers on scooters, pre schoolers learning to ride bikes, remote control cars and occasional gangs of skateboarders. I think its adorable but some neighbours find it annoying. Christmas morning is hilarious with all the activity, almost queues forming cos everyone had the same idea.

We have this in rural Devon. Neighbour's children & GC play outside, we look out for them, will offer squash, snacks & lavatory when needed. We also have neighbours who take your washing in from the line if it starts to rain & you are out, my DH regularly trundles down the road to cut an elderly neighbour's grass, happy to leave backdoors open in good weather, we swap plants & excess veg & other produce. Sometimes I joke that I'm living in the 1950's. 😂

We do. We live in frampton, boston

We live in London and have that. It’s great.

All the kids play out here
Village in West Yorkshire

Pretty much - they’re not in and out of each others houses so much as still quite young but they all play out on the street together (with parental supervision!) and we have little get togethers just did a VE Day one, did an Easter egg hunt all together, always have a Christmas Eve party.

We’re moving soon and I’m so sad to be moving away from such a lovely little group of neighbours and community. Our house just isn’t big enough for us - if a bigger one on this close came up we’d have snapped it up, but they never do! We’re not moving far at all but can already tell the new street is much quieter.

We have this in Edinburgh. We moved in as a new build almost 20 years ago and have a big enclosed shared green with houses on two sides and a block of flats on the third. The kids all play when the weather is decent and most houses have a gate directly out to the green so it is very safe. My kids are older now, but we used to have a houseful of random kids.. Big cycle network so plenty of room to cycle safely all along the forth of forth.

The flip side is you are overlooked by everyone, but it means lots of people keep an eye on the kids. It was a godsend during lockdown as kids were still allowed to play out in Scotland.

We do! My children are older now, but us neighbours are all still always outside having a cuppa or a bbq together. The families with younger kids all play out. We are a cul de sac, houses are away from the road, we have a little green area out the front off the road

Yes my road - a one off small development of about 20 detached houses, kids play out as if it's the 1980s and in and out all the gardens, and the few houses without children are good natured about the feral nature of the kids and bikes etc being out in the road

Other family members have very similar where they live too.

Areas - they are all over the UK, generally you need to look for a village or small town and roads with smaller pockets of houses and near primary schools

yes we live on a street like this unfortunately when we moved in I thought it would be just like you describe but for whatever reason there were not that many young kids living there at that time. Now there are a ton of young kids and new families but my kids are older now and less interested in playing out.

Yes, I grew up in a cul-de-sac in a lovely village in Surrey. Spent my childhood playing out in the road or at the recreation ground over the back of the house, blissful times. My brother and I are selling the family house, if you’re interested in down South 😊

Yes we live on a new build cul-de-sac and my DC rides scooters with the other kids on the street. As I type this, they’re all sat at the end of my drive chatting with the scooters all laid next to them! They were playing with giant foam gliders earlier 🙄😆 Neon coloured planes shooting past the living room window! ✈️
Edited to say I’m in the north of England near York. Very, very nice area so it’s not exclusive to that age-old stereotype of council estates or lower income areas. Definitely not. Kids will (usually) be kids as long as there’s somewhere to be kids. 🛴 🛴🛴👦🧒

Yes, we do around here - very rural Cumbria.

We have a smaller one near by about 12 properties but it’s mostly older couples and student houses. I think only one is family with children.

We did...in a cul de sac. However we moved due to a fuckwit neighbour and his 4 vehicles who caused nightmare parking issues.

Yes I do too. It’s a cul de sac and luckily we have other family’s with similar aged kids so mine can play out with them. I feel very blessed as it doesn’t seem the norm.

Yes I did, its the same street I grew up on actually! I've just bought a new house further along the street, my DP still live in our childhood home, I'm number 8 and they're 43. We're all really close as neighbours, family and community. It's amazing. North East of England in an old council estate, they are the best ones 🥰

There’s an area close to me which is an orthodox Jewish area and when you drive through there’s always tons of kids playing out and riding bikes, it’s like I remember my childhood being.

It seems so unusual now and isn’t particularly quiet or safer than anywhere else. I have wondered if it’s a cultural thing or just this particular area but I think it’s wonderful.

there are huge swathes of many towns where it no longer happens - you just have to wander round and see what the area is like

at a hunch - an area that has a lot of children who are accessible without busy road crossing - so busy streets or lots of singles and retired people tend not to have this

bourne, Peterborough, loads of villages in Scotland. I drive a lot around the country and honestly it’s not that rare where you’re going to have to panic about finding a place. if it’s an estate or fairly quiet street it’s likely to have a decent amount playing out.

You don't just need a cul de sac or a quiet front road. You can also have a quiet back street in an inner city location. We have one and when my child was younger, he played in the back street with lots of neighbouring children. It was a bit of a pain when they all came to my house to get their water pistols refilled. I think I was the soft parent who obliged them!