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I miss the non chain coffee shops that were open 24/7, I miss the non chain stores that were still around, I miss the mall parking lot improvised car shows.
I enjoyed being able to safely ride my bike the 8 miles to school, I enjoyed our little party island, I miss having hundreds of miles of canals to run my little boat on.
I do also remember the race fights in the middle of school during the Rodney King trials, I remember the AIDS scare where we stopped using water fountains just in case.
Aside from the risk of the authorities treating it as child neglect, do you believe this would be less safe to do now? If so, why?
When I was a kid there was a trail off road that ran all the way to school so I didn't have to deal with trqffic, its now fully developed so that trail is gone