I mean I was very happy to live in town (about 40 mins to London) pre teens but now I have teenagers… it’s bliss! They are in an out every weekend and holidays… take themselves off to rugby training on Sunday mornings, the other one tennis on a Saturday morning, and constantly in and out meeting friends or when they need something from the shops…. Off they go. Walking or hop on the train.
Love their freedom and independence, and enables them and their friends to be so much more sociable than relied on parents.
What sparked the thread was my daughter mentioned one of the group’s friends wouldn’t be meeting them tonight at cinema. Why? I asked. “Because she lives in the ass end of no where and needs a ride even to get to the bus stop but both her parents are working today”.
And no, I didn’t offer to pick her up. Why? Because my car in for it’s MOT, not that I miss it in the slightest!
Shout out for the urbanites!