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woah WTF, is this what it's like in the US???

Here in the UK we don't have Japan-level super-younglings walking to school on their own etc, but you certainly wouldn't get any bother walking around at age 6 unless you looked obviously lost.

Hearing your experience is just so mindwarpingly boggling it's unreal..



This is not the overall US. This is a particular type of middle class suburb that is full of busybodies and helicopter parents.


It's any population center, city and metro area. They all have police and there's no shortage of cops who believe John Walsh's false stranger-danger narratives.




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