Why Did Fun American Neighborhoods Vanish? This Might Be The Reason

I grew up on a cul-de-sac in the 70s. Everyone on the street was from Europe. There were Germans, Norweigans, Danes, English, Irish, French etc. We all got along. The kids all played street hockey (even one of the girls, who was a fantastic goalie) We all celebrated Halloween. Everyone decorated for Christmas. There were neighborhood barbecues etc. My wife and I now live on a street with a lot of immigrant families from China and the Middle East. Many of them keep to themselves and their houses are dark during the holidays. Only one kid plays outside (hockey alone in his driveway and riding his bike) It's really sad.

A diverse neighborhood is where you do not have enough in common with your neighbors to form a community

Uber diversity creates low social trust, thus "fun neighborhhoods" including Halloween trick or treat are fading. Mass immigration destorys nations.

I’m in my early 30s. I grew up in a neighborhood where all the kids went out and played at the park down the road or we’d ride our bikes everywhere. No one ever got hurt. No one ever got kidnapped. No one ever had their homes broken into. This wasn’t something from the “boomer times”. We had this in the 90s and early 2000s.

The same thing has happened all across western Europe for the exact same reasons caused by the exact same people

I grew up during the 60s and 70s. The women in my neighborhood were housewives/stay at home Moms. Most families only had one car, one black and white TV, one wall phone, no air conditioning,etc. Those were simpler times. All of the neighborhood kids played outside from morning until evening. The women were the eyes and ears of our community. It was safe for children to walk and bike around town. I am glad that I had that kind of childhood. 😊

When I drive around the neighborhoods on a Saturday morning I often just think to myself where the hell are all the kids. Our new world is a nightmare.

I moved away from "my people" to live on a quiet street where there are goodhearted, hardworking families. The street is clean. The yards beautiful. The nights are quiet. There's virtually no crime. I spend my days in my garden and my evenings out front, drinking tea, in my rocking chair. I remember a time when almost all streets in America were like this.

I will not support a community that i feel like a foreigner in, especially in the town I grew up in.

My kid had a fun neighborhood. It started as a quiet neighborhood where no one came out. I sat in my garage while my kid played, alone, in the front yard. After a few weeks the other parents on my street kicked their kids out the house to play with mine. After a month or so, there was a pack of them running around. Be the change.