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?

🤣 I was the soft touch parent too who made trays of cookies for all DC and had a very good selection of lollipops too. The only mistake we made was feeding a vegetarian kid, who we did not know was vegetarian, meat from the BBQ when he was playing in our garden with DS.

I live in a cul de sac just like that too.

I do! It’s an estate of all cul-de-sacs. It’s a small estate and all the kids play on a wooded area in the middle of the estate. I don’t leave my door open though as they’ll come in & they’re all really grubby so I have them knock so I can check them first🤣

We live in a cul de sac on the edge of a small northern town . This is normal in our street , although most of the kids are late teens now .

Yes. Many people I know also do. We have an enclosed communal garden behind our house, accessed by only the 20 houses that back onto it. My boys both when younger , older now, played out many days with all the other children, fabulous.

We’re in a small village and this happened 40-odd years ago but you never see a child playing out now. They’re all inside with their devices, I presume. Perhaps the beck they all played and plodged is now deemed too dangerous.

They all did on our cul de sac on the green area at the front
We put out paddling pools. had parties and all sorts. It was lovely

My kids are teens now but absolutely they had this growing up - my 14 year old probably only really stopped in the last year or so

When our kids were little we lived in a cul de sac of 18 houses. 16 of those had young children a year or two either side of my twos ages so all the kids played together outside in the street. All parents would sit out on the front gardens watching the kids playing & having drinks in the warmer months. In the Winter the Dads would go out & clear the road then help the kids make huge snowmen. It was so lovely having that community feel. We all moved homes when our kids were in there late teens & now we're in a street where there's hardly any kids so it hasn't got the same feel. Our neighbours are lovely & friendly but I think it's kids playing outside that helps bring a community together.

Yes, especially the old council estates, my in laws have a big green in front of their house and the kids all play together.

However, not the days you mentioned, the parents/grandparents who look after them are in pJs and wouldn't 'dare' to step on the grass unless an emergency.

Yep, we're on a new build estate and from about March to October there's a gang of about 20 kids screaming their heads off on the green space in front of our house.

Don’t move into our cul de sac or the one behind us, no young children at all. Doesn’t always follow that a cul de sac attracts people with young children:

I know a coupe of people that have roads like this, out of everyone I know. For this to be possible now you need a road that:

• has enough young families with similar age kids, we have not lived with young kids in our road at all and we have moved three times.

-be a road that is closed at one end or a cul de sac

• not have miserable and angry neighbours who complain about kids playing
• be in a village or small town, not city
• have neighbours who are similar people to you and let their kids play out and go on play dates as many do not allow it now.

The two families I know that live in roads like this the above all has to be true. We have never lived anywhere like that, but there are a couple of roads here and there, however you would need to go on a hunt for them as it is not the usual thing.

I have lived in Dublin my entire life and never knew my neighbours. My friend lives in another part of the city, and they all know each other on her street. It looks like Coronation Street, and has a great sense of community. The children are in and out of each other's houses, and the adults babysit and dogsit for one another.

We have a nice level of community (midlands suburb) and kids play out on some streets where there’s restricted car access and green space, It’s also a safe part of the neighbourhood enough that kids go out walking together etc. Being in a city suburb means that people move a lot and you’re never far from a main road though, so it’s not quite as you describe,

Oxfordshire here and live in a market town. The new build estates are definitely like this as they have play areas, I live in a cul de sac so the kids are always outside. It was fab when my DD16 was young but about to move where I have no neighbours 😆

Yes, we did in the 80s; we all moved in as young marrieds in the 70s, had our children around the same time and they all played out in the safe street in the 80s, and in and out of each other's houses. It was great.

Yes our lane was like this. Semi rural Cheshire. All the kids went to the same village school, but the central “ meeting place” was the nearby park, where they made dens and climbed trees. Biggest mistake I made was buying a couple of trampolines and paddling pools. Our garden WAS the park for many years after! All good fun ( mostly!) 😁

Edited to say DC, are 17 and 20.5 now. The lane is now totally different. Boring as hell actually.

Our street is like this, actually most of our area is, but we live in an area that doesn’t have many back gardens so the kids usually just play out front. It’s lovely, cars drive slowly as they know kids will be out playing and in the summer we see our neighbours all the time. It really feels like there’s a proper community.