> But that hasn't changed. When I was growing up, we were outside on our
> own all day, from a fairly young age - and my mother was far stricter
> than average (the term of art is "hypervigilance of paranoia"). 40 years
> later, it's lockdown suburbia. It was all cars then and now.
I don't get it either. It's gotten incredibly insane, to the point that I'm burning to get out of the suburbs and go live in the city. I live in one of the "safest" burbs in Kansas City, yet my sister won't let me leave ground floor windows open overnight during warm weather.
WTF?
Chuck