&gt; I hope they can safely reach the age where they can go off and experience the adventure of the big cities<p>Conversely, I feel grateful that my parents chose to raise me in a dense urban area, instead of moving out to some suburban hellhole in an attempt to give me a bubble-wrapped existence.<p>I mostly took care of my own transportation to and from public school from the age of 10 onward (walking or public transit), and was never robbed, assaulted, kidnapped, conscripted into a gang, or whatever it is that suburbanites imagine happens to children in urban environments. I&#x27;m not a drug addict, I don&#x27;t have a criminal record, and I&#x27;m gainfully employed.<p>I would never, ever raise a child in a suburb unless I had to for financial reasons.