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Thefts at train stations and bike thefts are very common in Switzerland. Japan is by far much safer than any European country.
by j7ake 3y ago
Thefts at train stations and bike thefts are very common in Switzerland.
Japan is by far much safer than any European country.
- chrisandchris 3y agoThere's a saying that as soon as you leave your bike at a train station, it belongs to the public.
- gylterud 3y agoI usually joke, when someone has their bike stolen, that they have just gained membership in the local, involuntary bikesharing community, and thus can help themselves to a another bike from the bike parking.
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- jonny_eh 3y agoJapan is quite safe, but has an organized crime problem.
- xtiansimon 3y agoWhere does ‘organized crime’ intersect with Japan society at large if theft is low in Japan? Prostitution and gambling? I’d be surprised if you said drugs, because of the slippery slopes in drug addiction.
- debtor66 3y agoYeah, Americans idealizing Euro countries or cultures, especially the nordic and germanic countries are really annoying. Please leave your bike unlocked at any major Swiss train station and see what happens. Or take a walk at night around Rosengård in Malmö and come back to tell if you actually felt safe there. It's always the same story: "I went to this upscale hotel where everyone is a wealthy tourist and travelled to the most commonly visited tourist spots and nobody stole my wallet / watch / umbrella. Amazing people." It's like those people have a psychological need for a fairytale country to exist where everyone is a "perfect" citizen and no harm has ever been done to anyone so they can daydream about living there. If you left a library unlocked in a wealthy NY or Boston neighborhood I'm sure that you'd get a pretty similar outcome like the one mentioned in the article. It's not a mystery that readers are usually domesticated and fairly educated people who won't steal books, even in the US.