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If you're waiting for your city to change, it's too late. Your kids will have grown up.

You need to move to a place where unsupervised outdoor play at young ages is encouraged. These places do in fact exist in the US.

The common reaction to this is that you can't just get up and move your family. We'll this is still a choice and we all set priorities on what is important.

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Do you have any strategies for finding such places?

I'd start with googling best places to raise a family and start digging in. I'm sure the lists change from year to year. I recently moved and started this way.

Also, there is no utopia so the "best place to raise a family" in the US might have other negatives, you just need to prioritize.

A low-traffic (no through-traffic) suburban area with a park or parks within easy walking distance and bike paths. I can think of lots of areas like that around here (northern California) and I'm sure elsewhere.

We live in such a neighborhood and it has been excellent for kids. They can walk or bike to the park in less than a minute, there are multiple playgrounds and large fields to run around.

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