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Video games and smart phones

For anyone who hasnt read it, check out "The Pedestrian". Easily one of the most relevant stories I've ever read

1:13 yes even in southern ontario, the cars sometimes don't stop

I’m reaching my teen years and this is 100% true the only thing that I have direct access to are the gas stations near by other wise good luck crossing the street with 45 mile per hour cars

They prioritize cars but they can’t even do that correctly. Due to stroads (a street and a road mix together) being the norm in cities, it creates traffic, confusion, and collisions. Streets are typically in residential areas with low speeds and roads are long stretches with high speeds. In most cities homes and businesses are right next to each other. There’s so many things to turn into such as parking lots or a driveway, cars are constantly going at high speeds to slow down with little warning to turn 24/7. This is adds on to pedestrians or bikers not being or feeling safe to commute. I live in Los Angeles and there’s plenty of bus stops in places where a sidewalk is non existent. Traveling out opened my eyes to how roads and streets are supposed to operate and it’s a smooth and traffic free ride every time cos how spaced out things are.

I live in the suburbs. Here is an idea, go rent an airbnb apartment in a big city. Let me know how you enjoy the blinding city lights, sirens at all hours, traffic noise, honking. Oh, but you have cafes and coffee houses nearby? So what. I make my own coffee and sit out on my porch overlooking the mountains in total peace and quiet. Some surburban areas are definitely better than others, and other areas, definitely suck.

Devils designs everywhere

Screw nimbys, i hate them, we need to stop listening to them.

Cuz grass is toxic (jk)

This is all done on purpose so that the oil industry can benefit even more by people driving all the time and using gas. This is also the result of zero consequences for people breaking the law. If traffic violations had actual consequences, people would start obeying them. Speed limits. Stop signs. Etc. I'll use drunk driving as an example, if you're caught driving drunk, your license should be automatically suspended for 10 years. Second offense would be a lifetime ban for driving. Driving is a privilege, not a right. The vast majority of accidents are completely avoidable.

I walked over a mile to school every day, rain or shine, even on cold winter days.

I would love to be able to bike to school, but my parents don’t let me because it would be along a busy road

Truthfully, it’s unsafe in lots of big cities in the US for children. You have to worry about school shooting for crying out loud if you send your children to school. We want to foster independence in our children, but we will be homeschooling. While it would be nice for sidewalks, in our city there is a bad crime problem and we have a serious homelessness problem as well. The few sidewalks we do have in the city are so close to the road and drivers do not pay attention, so why risk losing your child? We will instead create a space for our children where they be outside and be independent but safe and close to home. We pray to one day own land for our children to explore (us as well as we enjoy that too and did that as children).

Make Nature Great Again

I was born in 89 my parents would have to blow the car horn to get the kids out of the road when we went home!

I live in a walkable area within my town in Ireland. There is infrastructure for bikes, local businesses not far off, safe streets and a sense of community in our suburb, allowing children to play unsupervised on the street and develop independence. There is a town square that is completely a pedestrian zone- in which loads of teenagers will go to hang out in and generally there’s no trouble. Several primary and secondary schools are very nearby and it is very handy. Traffic flows extremely well, in comparison to the car centric area I lived in before, where it took 30 minutes to do what should’ve been a 5 minute drive to school at busy times because there weren’t safe ways to walk in. The difference is astounding!

As European I never understood the unnatural and inpersonal way of building suburbs in the US. It always felt so artifical with something missing to attract people outside their houses. My impression was people only live there in their houses or leave it with the car for other places.

Streets with cars are perfectly safe for pedestrians, if Americans knew how to drive. And driving age should be 15, as it was when i was a kid.

as a filipino who loves to bike im shocked

Being from the UK, just East of London, it is a bit different in USA as we have high streets for shopping here whereas when I visit my Mum who moved from UK to Spring Hill FL years ago, I find that there isn't anything like that and I have to drive to even go to the nearest shop. Im from Southend on Sea, Essex, so just Google Southend on Sea High Street and you will see what I mean. Must admit though that I do like walking through my Mum's neighborhood in FL, with no people around. Peace and quiet.

9:31 wt happens when u don’t have a gov style like China or other socialist progressive countries, you get a bunch of these idiots

You act like I stay inside like a fuckin goblin holy shit

I truly do not care if it’s considered authoritarian to take away cars from people especially in the United States, the way we set up transportation here is objectively terrible and needs severe reevaluation.

One thing I will say, this is a very important discussion to have thus a very important video to make, however this topic needs to be approached delicately and correctly without solely blaming seclusion on technology. Not saying you did this, this comment is being made prior to me viewing the video.

As someone who grew up in arizona it’s even worse cause 60% of the year it’s 100+ so the outside is LITERALLY TRYING TO KILL YOU lmao

At this point serial killers and government are to blame

the W.E.F welcomes you to the turd world ..... road build everything more roads everywhere

bahahhahhaha this commie shit Toronto has been destroyed by the car nimmbis endless room in Canada stop tell i need to live like Japan its sad

There was a 10 year old kid walking home from school from his bus stop maybe 4 minute walk and some lady called the police on the lil kid for walking home alone and the mother went to jail 🤷‍♂️ people are just not all there mentally 😬🤨

I dont go outside because of boys my age, im a minor and i dont feel safe because of the amount of boys who participate in inappropriate stuff (vaping, inappropriate jokes, etc) i once went out with my brother to a park (hes autistic) and 3 boys (from my age to a couple years older) came into the park and one of the boys whispered to me asking if he was autistic, pretty sure he meant it in a rude way. The boys then started mocking my brother. Like a couple months ago a boy i was friends with in primary invited to hang out with his friends and check out their 'forest base', the boys wanted me to say the n-word so i could 'join them' peer pressure and social anxiety got to me and i reluctantly said it. They trespassed and when they got caught they started making jokes about what they'd do to the owner of the property if they had a gun.

I'm glad my school was in my neighborhood even tho i was a suburb kid

I feel like the internet made every dangerous situation seem 10x worse than it actually is and it created a domino effect. "I won't let my kid walk to school because some other kid 1000 miles away from me got kidnapped." Then every other parent follows because they don't want to feel like a bad parent, and now every other kid is sheltered from the world with zero desire to change it.

At the age of 16 I have now started going outside more with my friends. I’m becoming more happy, having new friends and going out with them is freeing from the entrapment of home

if kids wasnt outside when you was growing up you most likely grew up with money in a upper middle class/wealthy neighborhood where they are gaming 24/7. I grew up outside, and people were out everywhere 2015-2020. They still are. I don't think it's all this external stuff like the environment.

I love suburbs

Amazing perspective keep pushing for younger people to be in the congress and government and more importantly making safer ways for modes of transportation other then cars that are healthier

I usually watch those cops and robber videos, kids are still playing outside, just not too far from their homes, around the sidewalks, it’s good i guess

My parents tell me I need to go outside, I would love to play with my friends but I’m the youngest child and the only friend I have around is 3 years older than me. People don’t even wanna go swimming anymore.

My whole life, i have lived in a Urban state (New York, to be a bit more specific, NYC), I'm still pretty young, I wont be saying my actually age bc no, but im close to the age of kids that most people think stay home all day, play fortnite, watch skibidi toilet, stuff like that. I've rarely left the public apartment I live in because theres no where to go that i could walk to that actual has other people there. There's a park near my home, but i have to be accompanied by my mom to go down because i live in a relatively dangerous neighborhood, and even when i do go to the park, there is rarely ever any other kids there to interact with because of how paranoid adults are to let kids go outside. And I can't just go anywhere else because even though I live in NYC, a place that is known for our subway systems, i still cant go out because I cant leave my apartment without my parents, and i dont have a card to pay for the ride. And I can't social at school because of us basically needing to sit down and shut up for 8 hours; having like, 20 minutes for lunch; and rarely ever having recess or gym. And with the popularity of tiktok or apps that can give ANYONE their 15 minutes of fame, that allows rude people to voice their opinions, get popular, and have people copying their behavior and taking in their ideas; so bullying is common and being rude is accepted; which makes many other kids like me, not want to interact and socialize, fearing we will be bullied and ostracized; so we just want to finish school as fast as we can, go home, and go on our phones and talk to people that relate to us. Many, if not all of my friends are online friends. People I'll likely never actually meet in real life, but people who understand, people who we want to talk to, and to talk to them, we must be on our phones. And also, as I mentioned earlier, i live in a Urban area, where there is no place that is kid-friendly, or a place we can hang out in; ranging from parks filled with dangerous crackheads and people who harrass minors, to having a lack of nature (trees, grass, lakes) to play in, to just straight up not being allowed to go anywhere because its not allowed for kids to go there (18+ places, places where you need to be accompanied, places that you aren't allowed to stand around in without getting a fine or being arrested). PS: I'm not sure how to add on from here, if i made any spelling mistakes or errors, let me know. This comment is from my own experience and based off of many of the kids I do talk to! ^^

its all controlled by Buy n Large now

The picture in the thumbnail is a brand new neighborhood..that's why there are no tree's yet.. There is nothing creepy about the suburbs..stop being racist !

and then they wonder why we just sit on social media

Thank god we have rap music and Hollywood to infuse this "Anywhere" USA with a bit of flavor and relevance.

I blame the greed of the Jews

In this "car-centric country" in my town, I can't drive because of my disability, most people who In know think I'm mentally challenged because I walk from point a to b, while they do have the ability to drive to where they want. I continue my point a to b walkings no matter what they say, because at some point in their lives, they are going to have to walk too, hope it's not to late for them to do so.

The only reason why I don’t go out / never did ic cuz of my parents.

That example of kids drawing maps reminds me that when i was walking back, i had to go a very long distance. And i only managed to get lost once, somehow i ended up in the wrong place, but was able to recognize that and correct for it to get there anyway. I don't even remember street names, like, ever, and yet i recognized one street name because i pass by it regularly and used it to get back on the right path.

my parents telling me to go outside when im only allowed in my backyard alone like what am i supposed to do bro? play imaginary tennis? and then when i wanna go outside they go like "YoU cAnT gO oUtSiDe!!!!1!!1" and then when i actually go outside everything around me are either old people or little kids when im a teenager 💀like then they tell me to play barbie with the little kids? and then if i do play barbie my parents go like YOUR TOO OLD FOR BARBIES!!! like what am i supposed to do bro? 💀and if i do teenager stuff that doesnt require technology they tell me its too dangerous or some shit and then when i go on my phone they go crazy like WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DOOOO? SIT ON A BENCH AND STARE AT SPACE? 💀

Me, not from America watching this video like 🤔

2nd reason why kids don't go out: video games are more interesting