[MargaretR]

I understand why Magpie said that.
Children are often noisily exhuberant at any age
There are play areas where they could run and shout but idle parents sitting in boozing whilst watching the telly can't be bothered to take them there, or they don't encourage active hobbies for them to use up that energy.
I am having a 'fraught' afternoon because of a 4 year old.
His dad has 'access' and has chosen to use it by dumping the little lad on his brother whilst he spends the afternoon in the pub.
The 'brother', my next door neighbour, has a mental age of a child himself ('learning difficulties'). The little lad is taking running jumps at the back of the door to the flat. This banging and his high pitched squeals are clearly audible in my flat. All this is happening within 10 feet of open fields where the little lad could let off steam without upsetting anybody.

So that is why us 'oldies' sometimes prefer to be segregated from children when choosing where to live.