Do you like having kids in your neighborhood?

Hardly any left in my neighborhood. Only one family I know of that have 3 young kids. Another family has a tween son. Two families still have their 50 year old sons living at home. They hold full time jobs, never married and don't do any chores outside for their parents. Most people are 55+ in age.
 
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I do. I don't like to see really little ones running around unsupervised, but I don't see that in my neighborhood here.

I have seen it before, though. Back in the early 90s a young mother and her little boy and girl (around 3yrs-old) lived right across the street from me. The mother's neglect was so alarming, I went and told her I could watch her kids for her if she ever needed the help. She brought them to my house that evening and she didn't come back. I'm serious.

Over 2 weeks later, a lady came looking for the kids. She said she was their aunt and she immediately called their father (the mom was his ex-wife). He got to my place pretty quick to pick them up....along with all the clothes, shoes, toys and diapers I bought them.

He was extremely upset and concerned, and like checked them over for injuries and whatever - because who knows, right?....that guy didn't know me. Well, neither did the young mom, for that matter. Anyway, he struck me as a pretty decent guy, so I felt very ok with letting the kids go with him. And they didn't hesitate.

But I digress....

Yeah, I like kids living in my neighborhood. Well-cared for ones, especially.
 
I live on a street with only 10 houses. Right now we only have one with small children. Three sweet little boys. I don't see or hear them too often. They all have albinism and can't be out in the sun. I see them more in the winter because of the overcast days. They home school.

My street does end at an elementary school so there are all the neighborhood kids going back and forth to school. They are all so cute, have a lot of young moms walking some and pulling the babies in wagons or pushing strollers. It is a joy for me.
 
It depends what sort of kids! I like sweet, polite ones that don't make much noise but, the loud, cheeky type can go live some place else :cool:
 
I’ll be honest, no thanks. There’s a nearby subdivision that has rules but no one enforces them. It looks like a junk yard. Another subdivision is very strict and it looks great. The thing with communities designed for families, the homes are at least two stories. Seniors don’t tend to buy there. Homes in senior subdivisions are a premium price to get the style of home they want.
 
We have a lot of kids of all ages in our neighborhood. We love having all the kids around!

We are in our 70's and raised three kids. We are blessed with six grandchildren. Four of them are close enough to us, distance wise, that we get to see them often. The two older ones are married and live far away from us. Hopefully we will have a family get together sometime and we will get to see them, but it gets harder to travel that far every year.

Last night was Halloween and, in the USA, kids come to your home dressed in costumes and say, "Trick or Treat." If we don't give them a treat, they will give us a trick. So, we always have a treat. It is one of our favorite times with the kids at our door. We talk with them and let them take some treats. It is great fun for all...

So, yep, we like kids...most all kids! I also coach kids in sports, that also is great fun.
 
The balance in our neighborhood has tipped over to "retired age", but there are some families with children. With the exception of one family that is, thankfully, too far away from us for us to hear them, the neighborhood is pretty darn quiet.

I guess from hearing from others that the father in the above-mentioned family is very belligerent and reacts to requests for less noise by playing his music at top volume and encouraging his kids to scream at the top of their lungs. The police have been called more than once, I hear. I'm glad they're on the opposite side of the neighborhood from us.

The only problem we have on our street is a neighbor across the street who has a "neuro-divergent" nephew who comes to visit and will bounce a basketball and shoot the ball at a basketball goal that he wheels out into the street for hours. After a few hours of bounce-bounce-bounce-BAM!-bounce-bounce-bounce-BAM!-bounce-bounce-bounce....., it gets a little old. It could be worse, though, and I'm trying to be understanding. He's not there often.
 
The neighborhood around my condo complex has some kids in the homes. They get very excited when they see my 2 Maltese and I always let them pet the dogs and I talk to the kids. I love seeing them.
 
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