Thomas,

My whole city has sidewalks. If I leave the city and go the county, I see that some areas have sidewalks and some don't. Most of the nicer areas don't have sidewalks.

When I was looking to buy a house, I didn't want a house with no sidewalk. I wanted a safe place for my child to ride their bike and roller skate.

I did find out that some areas that don't have sidewalks allow you to make your own.

If my sidewalk gets bad, my city has a 50-50 program. The city will pay half for replacements and the owner pays half.

Doesn't bother me as I can't ride a bike

Fran,

I coming down there and getting you on a bike!

woohooo, just make sure it has an engine vrrrooommm vvvvrrroooommm

and the nieghbors had stuff in their yards too

and they parked in the driveway whether it be gravel dirt or grass

That's the backyard stuff. There's sidewalk stuff too.

if you want my yard clean quit playing on the sidewalk

you can not use the that is the way its been argument when the other side can also us it

used to be people cared more about people

than what they had in their yard

We played everywhere, but we had rather large yards. My families yard was the place to be though. All the neighbor kids cam to our yard. We played every sport you could think of. Professional wrestling on an old mattress set tossed out by parent brings back the fondest memories though. I lost the championship match to my little brother on a technicality.

Like I said, "Children now play on the sidewalk. When I was a child, they played on the sidewalk. When my parents were children, they played on the sidewalk. When my grandparent were children, they played on the sidewalk."

That's the way it is here. Kids play in their backyard for somethings and use the sidewalk for activities that require concrete.

Parents can watch their kids that way. That's people caring about people. We keep the kids safe.

That sounds like fun!

and now some mean neighbor would tell ya to clean that mattress out of your yard it is an eye soar

I'll put a little bell on it so you can ring it.

Maybe if that neighbor was winx.

Wont you play with my ding-a-ling!

insert walking and whistling emoticon here

I'm not a mean neighbor.

It's more like Anita Ward/Ring My Bell.

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/anita-ward-ring-my-bell/250606772/?icid=VIDURVMUS04

Maybe not. You a lot more attractive than the mean neighbors I had growing up.

There was one we called Old Joe. I think he hated everyone including squirrels. He would not allow anyone to use his sidewalk and would use his pellet gun to shoot squirrels off the telephone poles then throw them into the neighboring yards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MLBfwblps8

Ohhh.... I know Chuck Berry. He's from St. Louis. He plays every Wednesday night not far from me. lol