Well as someone who lives in a city who's violent crime just spiked, and wasn't exactly ideal before said spike, I've encountered enough unstable people on the

Well as someone who lives in a city who's violent crime just spiked, and wasn't exactly ideal before said spike, I've encountered enough unstable people on the street I wouldn't be comfortable leaving my baby outside a restaurant period, regardless of the weather. It's not that there's some mustache-twirling baby-stealing cabal out there, it's that some people are just mentally ill/batshit crazy and do batshit crazy things. Even if they'll get caught, even if there's no rational benefit. They'll hurt themselves and bring you/your loved ones along for the ride. They're likely less than 1% of the population, but around enough that statistically you have to worry. Similarly, if some stranger on the street asks me for the time I'm 90% sure they're just trying to get me to pull out my phone so they can snatch it, particularly if there's more than one of them. The idea of living in a densely populated non-gated area where you can have zero fear of absolute strangers is alien to me. It's like saying there's a road you can drive down where no one ever tailgates, road rages, drives drunk or cuts off each other and everyone does a perfect zipper merge when required, and it's so consistent you can drive without worrying about any of the above on a daily basis. Craziness.