The ones around here are outrageous - the gangstas bring their pit bulls and scare everybody to death, most dogs are untrained and just run wild. They're crowded, too small, and always dirty and torn up.
Most folks have a place they go, like our local polo field or a regular park. There's a park up the road where a lot of our friends go to train -- in the back of the park behind the maintenance buildings there's a big open field and a pond where nobody usually goes. The maintenance men don't mind if we train back there, so long as we pick up any dog deposits and take our dead ducks with us!
Yeah, in TX I could always find places to run the dogs, even when we lived in Midland in the city (well, ok, we thought of it as a city!). But here, there are not many places you can take your dog off leash. We do alot of walks, but I know they wuld like a good run (which I am too old and uncoordinated to do with them on leash! ;)
Our back yard is about the lenghth of the house (don't know that in yards, but the house is only 1800 sf) and maybe 12 ft. deep. Not alot of space. The little one loves to run jets around the yard, she's pretty amazing. I should have her in agility.
susie