[reitanuki]

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..

[dbish]

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

[WarOnPrivacy]

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.