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I found that in general, young people are able to connect with their peers more. It was easier to spontaneously go with your friends someplace and spend time together. (The mall, the woods, each other's houses, or many other possibilities.)
Contrasted with being an adult, where it may be more difficult to be able to do that. I'm American, so it is geographically harder. But even if you don't live in a car-centric area, you might still run into difficulties with scheduling and responsibilities that you didn't even have to consider when you were young.
I remember the good times, but there was a lot of bad, too.
Were those neighborhood kids? I think it's way easier for today's utes to communicate and coordinate, so they're not limited the same way I was. Back in my day you only really talked to people on a regular basis if they were physically close by, in my case that meant living a few doors down the street and/or going to the same school.
The only time I've seen bands of free-range children in recent memory was in military base housing, but I'm not quite sure how it was tangibly different from other places I've lived beyond the obvious. Maybe it's a demographic thing.
Yes, neighbor kids. Different neighborhoods have different feels, but I've noticed as long as the neighborhood isn't constructed in a pedestrian-hostile way, kids will be out. Even today.
I will say that neighborhoods have increasingly become more pedestrian-hostile though, so I'll give you that.