&gt;Children and pet cats&#x2F;dogs can run around outside and the children can exercise their imagination through unstructured play in a safe environment, especially in a multi-child family, potentially replacing overly-structured and expensive after-school activities for all but the youngest children (with many opportunities to increase their physical fitness through such activity). You or your children can also practice sports, such as baseball.<p>I lived in a tiny apartment right in the city growing up. And I mean very, very tiny - we shared beds. I did all those things in my city-dwelling childhood. You don&#x27;t have to own the land to do that stuff. In fact city life lead me to spend plenty of time with the neighborhood kids, which was really great and you don&#x27;t get that if you are spending all your time on your own property. If I was bored I literally just walked outside and see which of the neighborhood kids were out. I don&#x27;t believe there was or is anything &quot;unsafe&quot; about public property and you can do sooooooo much more on public property. We did have a very small backyard that was shared with 6 families and we spent plenty of time there. And we got to interact with the other kids who lived in the building and the kid next door who saw us playing. You can also find a surprisingly large amount of nature in the city if you go looking for it. The idea you need to own 4 acres of land to play baseball is just laughable.<p>I&#x27;m fact, seems more like living on 4 acres would be a prison. You couldn&#x27;t leave without being driven!!!<p>The problem is kids aren&#x27;t allowed to go outside anymore by themselves.<p>Growing up with very little made me such a better person. I&#x27;m way off the hedonistic treadmill.