what there wasn't: computers, consoles, smartphones and sooo many cars. in my old neighbourhood places I used to roam around have all been taken over by parked cars.

After covid there are like 3x more dogs. Several people own multiple dogs, even in small flats. Dog bans are no longer enforced. And zero training!

In most of Europe you don't find shit like this anymore, gladly. When I was young it was still common (yet nothing that stopped us from playing outside)

Writing this from France where literally nobody cares about dog shit, still.

I don't know which country you're in, but certainly where I live people have gotten a lot better at picking up after their dogs since I was a kid. Growing up people let their dogs shit wherever and basically never picked it up. Today virtually everybody picks up after dogs.

I remember this being somewhat of an issue as a kid in the same area but it's hard to gauge how it's changed because I was a kid then and a parent now.

I'm in the NW in the UK.