Same. My entire four years in high school, I had a friend come over or went over to a friend's place probably a half dozen times, it was just such a huge pain in the ass to go anywhere and have a plan to get back.
In middle school I was in walking distance to every place worth going, and I "played outside" just about every day. Suburbs are cancer.
I lived in a town that didn't build any major roads for decades, so the whole town was like 7000 people on a single 5-6 mile long stretch of highway, with a few side streets going 1 block deep.
And no sidewalks at all. And the 2 lane highway had no shoulders.
So you literally had to walk 4 or 5 miles through tall grass, rocks, maybe sprint through little bits of road and hope you don't get run over, to get to anything without a car.
There was also literally zero public transport. None.
Same. My entire four years in high school, I had a friend come over or went over to a friend's place probably a half dozen times, it was just such a huge pain in the ass to go anywhere and have a plan to get back.
In middle school I was in walking distance to every place worth going, and I "played outside" just about every day. Suburbs are cancer.
I lived in a town that didn't build any major roads for decades, so the whole town was like 7000 people on a single 5-6 mile long stretch of highway, with a few side streets going 1 block deep.
And no sidewalks at all. And the 2 lane highway had no shoulders.
So you literally had to walk 4 or 5 miles through tall grass, rocks, maybe sprint through little bits of road and hope you don't get run over, to get to anything without a car.
There was also literally zero public transport. None.