I was told that kidnappings were a widespread thing that authorities didn’t/couldn’t do much about
The vietnamese tell their kids the chinese will steal you, the chinese tell their kids the vietnamese will steal them.
IDK how safe China was 20 years ago, but children running around independently today isn’t uncommon. It’s not like Japan, but parents seem less helicoptery than America.
I’ve had a few motorbike accidents, including skidding into the opposite lane going around a blind corner after the morning rain deposited silt, that had dried, and a few clise calls like someone turning across my lane to go left, coming up on a blind corner and having to brake and get near the wall after hearing a bus honking from the other side, stalling my bike at an intersection as an incoming dump truck failed to slow down, etc. But like your “I could have fallen on the subway”, the situations weren’t dangerous with proper judgement.
The vietnamese tell their kids the chinese will steal you, the chinese tell their kids the vietnamese will steal them.
IDK how safe China was 20 years ago, but children running around independently today isn’t uncommon. It’s not like Japan, but parents seem less helicoptery than America.
I’ve had a few motorbike accidents, including skidding into the opposite lane going around a blind corner after the morning rain deposited silt, that had dried, and a few clise calls like someone turning across my lane to go left, coming up on a blind corner and having to brake and get near the wall after hearing a bus honking from the other side, stalling my bike at an intersection as an incoming dump truck failed to slow down, etc. But like your “I could have fallen on the subway”, the situations weren’t dangerous with proper judgement.