I remember wanting to go places by myself where I grew up, but I was daunted by being stuck in suburban Walnut Creek, which at that time was so small and so suburban my memory is that you needed a car to get to Safeway or the swimming pool or any store really. You could walk and walk and walk and you'd just find endless subdivisions that were either just built or were being built or the land was being cleared to build them. (It was very E.T.) I think we were close to the foothills of Mt Diablo, but that was a state park and places near it were also being developed, and kids weren't encouraged to go there alone. Even when you got into town, you needed a car because it was all sprawl and typically traffic was heavy. There were buses downtown and I remember taking BART with my family, but BART was AMAZINGLY slow. I did walk to see my friends in nearby cul-de-sacs, but that wasn't very far at all.
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Date: 2019-06-02 08:21 am (UTC)I remember wanting to go places by myself where I grew up, but I was daunted by being stuck in suburban Walnut Creek, which at that time was so small and so suburban my memory is that you needed a car to get to Safeway or the swimming pool or any store really. You could walk and walk and walk and you'd just find endless subdivisions that were either just built or were being built or the land was being cleared to build them. (It was very E.T.) I think we were close to the foothills of Mt Diablo, but that was a state park and places near it were also being developed, and kids weren't encouraged to go there alone. Even when you got into town, you needed a car because it was all sprawl and typically traffic was heavy. There were buses downtown and I remember taking BART with my family, but BART was AMAZINGLY slow. I did walk to see my friends in nearby cul-de-sacs, but that wasn't very far at all.