Kids play in yards in my neighborhood all the time. Doing it now. Not usually sports though. They play make believe games or with water. Organized trad sports are almost never played freely of their choice. Only as part of coached teams signed up by parents.
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Oh sure--for those houses with kids in them. But kids always find a place to play, yard or no yard...when I was a kid living in an apartment in Cambridge, I played in the street a lot, when my family moved to a farm in England, I played in the horse pasture...
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Funny thing in my case is when my parents finally moved into a typical suburban development, I didn't play in the yard so much--I preferred the street, the nearby park (where my friends were--easier to meet there than to get us all to one person's house), or the woods
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Lawns exist to be mown. Jobs program. Big Lawn strikes again
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tbh can't think of much that smaller yards are good for; too small for real sports, lawns are awful, most people won't do enough gardening to fill them otherwise real benefit is at say half-acre and up, where you get enough space to do real outdoor projects but that's rural
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Definitely with you here--especially when the lawn is shared by three different apartments in a triple-decker
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A lot of HOAs prohibit any kind of "organized ball playing". With obnoxious busybodies to rat out the kids, get parents fined.
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This is seriously nuts. More nuts than cashews and peanuts combined.
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I think that front yards should be minimized but back yards are darn nice. That being said, my neighbor (who has a really big front/side yard and a small back one) hangs out with people at a fire pit in his front yard a lot.
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