что означает выделенное? спасибо.

I thought just like you did about SF when I was growing up here. I couldn't wait to get away from the crowded streets and dirty sidewalks (before pooper-scooper laws...), and I think most of my desire to get away was really a desire to be as far away from my parents as possible.
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