Of course, those teen years weren't necessarily carefree, they're famously confusing, which is why so many TV shows and movies revolve around high school turmoil.
The rather slaphappy, haphazard attitude of the other residents on that road is actually more effective in maintaining it, since they do not dwell upon its disadvantages but simply and purely expect the road to be passable.
She enjoys her carefree lifestyle and has vowed never to settle down and get married so instead she decides to make friends with a younger woman called Harriet and help her find a husband.
In the schmaltzy Disney take, when Pinocchio goes to Pleasure Island, supposedly a carefree paradise, it looks a lot like Disney World-an odd sort of marketing, given all the visitors are turned into donkeys.