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Originally Posted by Red
Plus, you will spend more than that driving your kids to various activities or school when you live in inner city. These same things are more likely accessible on foot in the burbs so no need for me to escort them.
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That's weird. As a kid that grew up in the inner-city I walked or rode my bike everywhere. What great amenities do the suburbs offer children that the inner-city doesn't? The only one I can think of is leisure centres. I had a pool close by but it was only open 2 months of the year.
In my experience the only difference between kids that grew up in the suburbs vs. kids that grew up in the inner-city is that in high school suburban kids have cars while inner-city kids don't. This obviously makes suburban kids cooler because having a car when you're 17 is way more rad than walking to school. This also facilities suburban kids the ability to go smoke pot or make out on the bluffs over looking the city while the inner city kids resort to alleys.
Oh and suburban kids gets nicer schools. They're not 100 years old with asbestos, kooky additions and shared lockers.
All that said the times are a changing and my view of growing up in the inner-city is probably different than today's reality. Almost every bungalow that my friends and I grew up in is no more.
