Nah, Patrickat has the right of it. It's a working class neighborhood.
They really don't have much choice but playing in the street, here. We've lost most of our neighborhood swimming pools to budget cuts in the city (disproportionately - almost all of ours have been closed, more than any other district of the city).
Having said that, they're definitely self-important. They have managed to avoid teaching their kids good safety practices around cars - the other day, as I was parallel parking, one darted behind my car. It just makes me cringe to think about it - these are city children, they should know this by the time they are old enough to be allowed to play outside!
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They really don't have much choice but playing in the street, here. We've lost most of our neighborhood swimming pools to budget cuts in the city (disproportionately - almost all of ours have been closed, more than any other district of the city).
Having said that, they're definitely self-important. They have managed to avoid teaching their kids good safety practices around cars - the other day, as I was parallel parking, one darted behind my car. It just makes me cringe to think about it - these are city children, they should know this by the time they are old enough to be allowed to play outside!