Seems opposite to my experience. I lived in Seattle for a while. Mentally ill, drunk, or intoxicated homeless are pretty common on the street. I witnessed sh

Seems opposite to my experience. I lived in Seattle for a while. Mentally ill, drunk, or intoxicated homeless are pretty common on the street. I witnessed shoplifting pretty often, threats and screaming people often, and people smoking crack pipes and injecting themselves pretty often. My wife was harassed or threatened multiple times by homeless people. We moved out to the suburbs. Here, we see crowds of kids in the afternoons. They are playing in the park, roller blading, scootering around, running to one another's houses. Most of the kids are unattended and running about their own business. It seems much more natural and healthy than the environment of the city, where, not incidentally, kids were rare. The "foreign scary place" was the city. The small community of neighbors who know one another is a friendly safe place. I would not want my kids running around the city by themselves - I don't mind it here. I don't think the reason is because of "hand wringing" or baseless worries over safety. I think the reason is that the city is overrun with mentally ill drug addicts who make a dangerous environment for unattended children.