Need a rant but not sure if AIBU?
We live in a really lovely street in a town in Scotland. Our street has about 45 houses and there is no road through so only traffic coming into out of our street. There are about 20 kids ranging from 4-10 who play outside relatively unsupervised & a few teenagers who come out to play with little ones occasionally. It is a nice set up as I read often about children who can't play outside & have too much device time. Now for the downside, the doorbell goes constantly, every time we sit down for lunch/dinner at weekends the doorbell will go 3-4 times. I have tried putting up a sign to say we r eating but it makes no difference. After school if we r trying to do homework the doorbell keeps going. When my kids DD8 & DS5 r out playing there can be up to 10 kids in & out of the garden & something always seems to end up getting broken. Other kids ringing the the doorbell to tell me a story about my kids like today a boy who's in the same class as my DS rang the doorbell 3 times to tell me my DS wouldn't play tag with him & wanted me to give him a row! Even when we've been out somewhere or at an after school activity as soon as we pull into our driveway there r kids round the car & we can barley get into the house. So my AIBU is should I actually be glad my kids r out getting fresh air using their imaginations etc? We have been thinking of moving to the Lake District due to DH job & my DH said the other day (when I was ranting) "you'll never get this again & you'll miss it if we move to a street where kids don't play out". That worried me slightly, do kids not play out anymore? Does anyone else live in a similar situation?
Sorry for long post 