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I started walking to school a half mile away by myself in second grade, and continued to do so until middle and high school, when I started riding my bike because it was over a mile. Even in the late aughts, no one ever seemed concerned with an 8 year old walking alone before the sun rose. My hometown changed a lot starting in 2011, so it's tough for me to separate those particular changes from macro-level changes in the 2010s, but I can't help but miss the confidence in my mobility that I had as a child that has never quite returned

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Apr 21Author

My childhood was quite prior to that, but I suspect that mobility option literally disappeared most places prior to your period of childhood.

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