> suspect there are places where you wouldn’t and shouldn’t leave your 5yo alone in the playground a short walk from home. You have that almost everywhere; so

> suspect there are places where you wouldn’t and shouldn’t leave your 5yo alone in the playground a short walk from home. You have that almost everywhere; sometimes depending, unfortunately, on color of skin or social standing. But I am just surprised because of the size of the US; in the Netherlands, which is miniscule, ‘people in the south’ think Amsterdam and Rotterdam are Sodom and Gomorrah which is mostly not true. I thought it was because it is such a small country that people would have such ideas about cities which are basically less than 2 hours drive from them, but then you see this in massive countries too. The tabloid press seems to do a lot of harm really.