Imagine if there was daycare so close that you didn't have to drive. Imagine!

Despite living in a suburb, this was actually the case for my kids' first daycare! That particular daycare didn't work out, but there was one about 1.5 miles away instead of 1 mile that we did instead. This is what is possible when neighborhoods are built with mixed uses, rather than being miles of only homes, like the typical poorly-thought-out subdivision.

Also, this aggressive asking "oh yeah how many kids and where" to a second person after me is quite off-putting. I have no desire to share that info with somebody who is asking like that.

I have daycare places 60 metres, 280 metres, 750 metres and 1200m from me. Might be something others I've missed.

City of 1.7 million. Probably what you'd call a single-story streetcar suburb with occasional multi-family building.

Also even if parents need to manually transport under-5s everywhere, this should certainly not be the case with older children.