It’s a short drive (because it’s the suburbs, you can’t safely walk to the supermarket)
It’s funny that suburbs get touted as safer, but you can’t even expect your kid to walk to the supermarket alone until they are well into their teen years. Usually because it’s over a mile away and across a state highway (and likely one without any nearby crosswalks, either).
It’s like pedestrian safety isn’t considered safety at all.
Sure, it’s safe enough for a young kid to walk or ride their bike around their cul de sac, sure…but it gets exponentially less safe the further you travel out from there…and that’s where their friends and everything else are…
My childhood home was 1.2 miles away and across such a state highway from literally anything. No sidewalks or crosswalks along the entire path.
I could walk to a bus stop without crossing a state highway, but I’d be walking along it with no sidewalk for most of it…and after 5.5 miles, I’d get to the bus stop. And I did do that a couple times in the summer before I got my license, to get to work.
If I was raising kids, I absolutely would not want to do it in the suburbs. It’s isolating and limiting. I was always so jealous of the kids I knew that lived in the city. They could do things. I was stuck indoors , or walking for like 90 minutes to get anywhere.
It’s funny that suburbs get touted as safer, but you can’t even expect your kid to walk to the supermarket alone until they are well into their teen years. Usually because it’s over a mile away and across a state highway (and likely one without any nearby crosswalks, either).
It’s like pedestrian safety isn’t considered safety at all.
Sure, it’s safe enough for a young kid to walk or ride their bike around their cul de sac, sure…but it gets exponentially less safe the further you travel out from there…and that’s where their friends and everything else are…
My childhood home was 1.2 miles away and across such a state highway from literally anything. No sidewalks or crosswalks along the entire path.
I could walk to a bus stop without crossing a state highway, but I’d be walking along it with no sidewalk for most of it…and after 5.5 miles, I’d get to the bus stop. And I did do that a couple times in the summer before I got my license, to get to work.
If I was raising kids, I absolutely would not want to do it in the suburbs. It’s isolating and limiting. I was always so jealous of the kids I knew that lived in the city. They could do things. I was stuck indoors , or walking for like 90 minutes to get anywhere.