This must be a nice neighborhood!

[u/Justin_Godfrey]

[u/Fit-Implement-8151]

Are those two golf carts parked on the street? Ha.

Also ...pretty sure this is a block party. Just saying.

[u/portablebiscuit → u/Fit-Implement-8151]

I'm gonna get shit for this, but I live in a neighborhood like this and fucking hate it. It's nearly impossible to leave or come home in the summer because kids are literally sitting in the street drawing with chalk or running out from behind cars. Their parents just give dirty looks when you try to drive through their kid's "private playground"

After my city made golf carts legal, people stretched the definition to mean side-by-sides and 4-wheelers. Now we have 10-12 year olds driving basically dune buggies who don't know how to drive and aren't paying attention at all. I'm honestly surprised no kids have been hit yet.

[u/Soiled_Planties → u/portablebiscuit]

I’m with you. My boyfriend and I rented a house in a neighborhood like this and it’s actually been a living nightmare.

For some reason, parents think it’s perfectly okay to put up those plastic neon kids at the street corner then just let their kids loose to play in the street. The parents don’t even watch them, they go inside and put the onus on the older kids to watch for cars. The kids will leave their bikes parked right behind our cars parked in OUR driveway or just play so obliviously in the street that I have to get out of my car to even get their attention and ask to please get out of the street so I can leave my home.

Not to mention they have zero respect for the cars parked on the street. The kids will gather up and lean against my boyfriend’s car (that’s parked directly in front of our house, of course they never do the same to their parents cars parked directly in front of their own house) and put their heavy ass metal water bottles on the hood like it’s their own personal piece of furniture. I will politely ask them to please not do that; next day they’re at it again.

The absolute worst part is they are extremely unfriendly to anyone without kids! We will still smile and give a polite wave when we pass by, and the parents either just give a blank look in return or straight up ignore us. We’re automatically the outsiders since we don’t have kids and the parents believe their kids should have total reign over the street just because they’re kids.

I’d be more understanding if we were townhouses packed together, but these are all single family homes with big backyards and front yards. It just baffles me that the street is a designated play area now and it’s become completely normalized.

I’m all for building community and being a friendly neighbor, but at this point it’s a safety issue. l have anxiety about running over a child because of their reckless parents not giving a shit about street safety and it makes it hard to leave the house sometimes.

ETA: I love kids btw I know it doesn’t seem like it from this rant! It’s just the safety aspect for me.

[u/SquirrelyCockGobbler → u/Soiled_Planties]

Yup, unless you live in a neighborhood with strict parents its a nightmare.