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

[Boredboredboreder]

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 live in the middle of a city but in an unusual set up above a supermarket with a large communal decked area. Never knew which kids were in our always open house, they all had a great time and I loved them having that upbringing

Our old close was like this, but my kids were toddlers and had no one to play with when they hit that age.

We then moved (not a cul de sac) and tell other families with kids same age as our youngest moved in. Couple of years of them calling for each other/ razzing round on bikes, camping, going the shop,;now they're teens and they sit in each other's houses instead.

It's just the luck of the draw really. It's normal for kids to play out round here, but you do need to have a street with kids on.

We have this, although kids are getting older now so more in houses rather than playing out like they did when younger - cul de sac, Berkshire market town. 7 houses on road and similar age kids is the key.

Yes, new build estate in Northern Ireland. The estate has a large green in the centre with a bike rack where the kids can safely play. It’s lovely

Yes, I did live somewhere like this about five years ago. Moved when the kids got older, but it was a lovely no through road

They do exist. Mostly ive seen it on new build estates that are geared towards families and where houses are close together. Personally I’d hate it. My friend lives in an area like this and she has 3 kids. If I call in for a coffee the front door is either knocked constantly or left open and lots of kids running around.

We've just moved somewhere similar to this. It gives the kids freedom which is lovely. We get gangs of 8-12 year olds roaming around on bikes and at the park. The flip side is that there are a few kids who can act a little unpleasantly and it can turn a little nasty, as groups of kids sometimes can. Sometimes I miss our old neighbourhood which felt safer to me, despite being less safe to let kids out, if you catch my drift! Our kids are too young to be let out alone but I'm not sure I'd like them running around unsupervised at age 8, having seen what the other kids are like when they think the adults aren't listening!

In our road (rural road), the kids are all younger than ours, and yes they do run in and out of each other's houses, and dump bikes in the front gardens. Is 5 houses, all the kids are the same sort of age, there's some younger ones further down that don't go out.

Jersey is still like this

@Boredboredboreder a village just east of Chester :)

We do (north east). Kids all play out / knock for one another... we leave the back gates open and the kids run in and out in the summer,, usually stopping to raid the freezers for ice cream / lollies on hot days. I grew up locally so it's a similar childhood to my own.

Yep. Rural Cumbria. Very safe and all the kids play together.

I have it here and it’s very annoying. They literally scream all day

We are in Rural Suffolk and they do this here.

our road is like this. Although as the kids have gotten older they tend to all congregate in our summerhouse.

they have our gate code and just let themselves in.

I know someone who lives in a cul de sac like this, I think it developed because it was a new build and a second home purchase for the majority. So they all moved in at a similar time with little kids.

They do in the street behind me, but it's not like it was when we were younger and adults didn't keep a watch. Now all the adults also sit outside together. It can be bloody noisy though.

Yes. I do.
It is great fun during the summer, it has downsides too.

Yes definitely, where I live. You need an estate with a primary school on it in a nice area.

streets like this exist in suburbs all over the UK.

The problem is you need the other residents to have dcs a similar age to yours. Our road used to be like this when my dcs were young, when dc1 was in year 3/4/5 there was lots of kids playing out, ringing the bell for each other, in and out of each others houses etc. but now we’ve all stayed in the street and our dcs are all secondary age. Now you’ve got the older ones learning to drive (the juggle for space on the road as the houses can fit 2 cars on the drives and the third for teens is beginning to be a problem!).

A younger family have just moved in down the street, they are the only ones with “playing out” aged kids, they are having a very different experience to us.

Im not sure how you will find a house that suits you with the right aged families in it - ours was full of young families at the same time because we all moved for primary schools, but we’ve stayed as they’ve grown. Perhaps newer build near good schools is less likely to have “bought for schools, still here 15 years later” people. Or you could find a house you like and sit in your car watching who lives there at school run time?

Yep-my school catchment is just like this-largely council/ex-council housing. Lots of houses are built around a shared green area and a few pretty quiet cul de sacs. Lots of kids out playing in their bike and knocking for each other. It can get a bit more rowdy in the evenings with teens on bikes though.

My mum’s street is like that - it’s a cul-de-sac near a school. It’s also the street I grew up on, and it was a bit like that when I was growing up although not as much as it is now.

Yep. North west

Our old neighbours tried to create this by turfing their 7 year old out of the house and allowing her to knock on every bloody door on the cul de sac. We had a baby at the time, no older kids and it was a pain in the arse but she wouldn’t stop/they wouldn’t stop her even after multiple people had asked them to because “it takes a village to raise a child” and they had decided all the neighbours were that village whether we wanted to be or not 🙄

Yes, dead end terrace and not only do the kids play out, the parents are in and out of each other’s houses too. Has its pros and cons….