When you're a tourist in the city, you're missing out on the rest of the country. I'll also note the "seeing children" part... anecdotally I recall one time I

When you're a tourist in the city, you're missing out on the rest of the country. I'll also note the "seeing children" part... anecdotally I recall one time I had the day off and went to a mall for something during a week day. The majority of the people I encountered were young mothers with a child not old enough to go to school. It's not that I don't see them other places, but it was a lot more concentration there and then... and that was memorable. If you are a tourist, you're likely to be in the more aesthetically pleasing areas or commercial areas and during the work week. The counter example would be if you were in a small town an hour beyond the outskirts of the larger cities and went to a local restaurant for dinner - the age demographics would be quite different.