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We outgrew our 10m x 10m garden by the time our daughter was about 5, all too easily balls would disappear over the fence. It's much easier to just go down to the local park if we want to play outside now.
(Unless it's the height of the summer and we can get the paddling pool and/or sprinkler out.)
We're in a house that's been cut up into flats so we have a private share of the garden but it's a faff to get to (down two flights of stairs, through a locked gate, across downstair's garden [no access problems], about a three minute round trip.
After ~10 years of living here the thing we miss most is having direct access to some outside space. It's just too much of a faff to use our bit of garden. When our daughter was young it wasn't long getting down there before we needed to go all the way back up to go to the toilet. Eating in the garden is lovely but it takes lots of planning to minimise the number of trips back and forth.
As others have said, you just get used to what you've got. I love living in a flat (especially as we couldn't afford a house in the area we wanted to live in) and we're lucky with the size of our flat, plus we've only one got one child (and a girl at that). We've also got really good neighbours upstairs and downstairs, but it could easily be much different if either were a pain in the arse.