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

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Where kids run in and out of each others houses and ride bikes on the street together?

Is this still a thing? I’d like to move to a road like this for my 6 year old. We currently have this, but not in the uk, does it still exist there?

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

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.

Yes, we do around here - very rural Cumbria.

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, 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 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 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

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

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.

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.

All the kids play out here
Village in West Yorkshire

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

We do. We live in frampton, boston

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. 😂

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.

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

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.

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

We live in exactly this kind of area :)

Yes, a village in east Lancashire. We live on a cul de sac where everyone knows everybody else by name and all the kids play together. It's lovely.

I do.

Very common in the north east.

Still the case in NE Scotland. A group of kids will go to the park together and walk to and from school from age 5.

You do not want to live where I am OP, please trust me on that one.

For the first time in years there are a few assorted families kids whizzing up and down on their bikes, the odd game of road tennis, having water fights and fun in my road, it's lovely. Sadly there are some kids who don't seem allowed out or to mix, one in particular constantly knocks the window to try and connect with these kids which is sad.

Yeah, I live in a suburb of a big town and we seem to have this. However our road is known for having a good community feel, so it might be quite specific to us and not the wider area.