SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Oh yeah. It is a real shame. I tell the wife all the time. There is really next to nothing outdoors for young kids to do. Also we live in a much more dangerous world. Most don't want their kids running the streets.There is no denying the youth of the past spent a lot more time outdoors. I know I did as well. It was either that, or stay at home and essentially do nothing.
My point is that the youth of the past looked for entertainment just the same as the youth of today. It was simply the lack of entertainment at home that drove them outdoors.
And I’m sure the elderly of your youth, probably complained that all the youngsters of your time did, was play outdoors and had too many toys, instead of working and contributing to the family, like they had to.
I grew up , worked and raised a family all in about a 10mi radius from my parents house. All the woods and empty land that we roamed, hunted , fished and played on are all long gone. POSTED / KEEP OUT or developed into subdivisions of houses and condos.
We are living in the 5th house in that same area. We have been in current home now 26 years. Our street has about 25 to 30 homes down it. We right now know only about 3 - 4 families on this street. So many houses have sold and some more than once last several years. Times are truly different. It is even hard at times to remember when there were no cell phones.