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Most kids have no where nearby to go on bikes. Plus cars and trucks are enormously more dangerous to kids these days thanks to being much larger, heavier and quicker to accelerate.
Are you saying that suburban families with kids no longer live next to schools, parks, friends?
Correct. I live in suburbia. I can't ride a bike to anything useful without going on a multi lane highway.
I don't even trust myself to do that ride without dying. People think cars own the roads.
Obviously friends their age would depend on neighborhood demographics.
However, in the US many of them are not able to bike to a playground or school and anything beyond their street could be a high speed road. I’d say only a small percentage can bike to the places you mentioned, especially after elementary age. Some areas of the US are good, but I doubt more than a tiny fraction of the kids in places like Texas could do that.
We specifically moved because our old neighborhood lacked all 3 and I didn’t want my kids growing up the way I did.
I find it infuriating that in some places there you can't even let your kid walk to school alone.