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    The city is so safe he could take the subway on his own if he wanted to.

What city!? Tokyo or Seoul, I could believe it was that safe for children, but continental Europe? Certainly not London.

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Zürich Switzerland or any other city/town in Switzerland. You will see very young kids going to school alone taking public transport. They are taught at an early age how to deal with crosswalks etc. (In Switzerland all traffic is required to stop at a cross walk for pedestrians, there is only an exception for trams and buses however those will stop for children), waiting until the car has completely stopped and only then crossing. School kids also all wear a high visibility type sash on their commute.

This is a bad example. Zürich is a tiny city compared to behemoths like London, Paris, and Berlin.

is it only allowed to live in behemoths?

I recommend against it, especially if that's the cost.

The subway is perfectly safe for kids in London. You see unaccompanied kids on it all the time.

Yeah but the crosswalks

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