> Eastern European cities are safer then they used to be in the nineties, sure. They are safe enough to have kids walk around. At age 9 and 10, I was travellin

> Eastern European cities are safer then they used to be in the nineties, sure. They are safe enough to have kids walk around. At age 9 and 10, I was travelling every day alone in a city bus to school through a city in Poland in early nineties. Nothing ever happened to me. I don't think there was particularly that much violent crime even then. Car thefts, OTOH, were pretty common until the mid 2000s when the police and state got the hang of it.