.. to think this would blow some minds?

Of course.

It works quite well unless a cat gets into the garden at 1am, then the whole neighbourhood is woken 😳

I'm hardly generalising about 67 million people. Just observing that I was genuinely surprised when we first moved here by the number of people who talked about being overlooked as a reason to not buy or rent a house, or wanting blinds or draperies on every window. It had never occurred to me before to cover windows other than in rooms or situations where you would naturally want a higher degree of privacy.

Can he reach the handle?

People used to leave babies in prams outside shops in the U.K. - mostly the big prams, though.

When dd1 was 10 days old I once left her in her pram in Boots for about 15 minutes, having completely forgotten that I had her. I was meeting my mother, who instantly said, ‘Where’s the baby?’
’Oh shit!!’ - and a quick charge back to Boots, but she was fine, and nobody had even noticed an abandoned baby!

I'm not berating anyone, but I'm not from the UK (although I live in London now) and I do find British people are a bit obsessed with privacy. I get not wanting a half dozen neighbours staring out the window at you while you're sunning yourself in the garden, and I wouldn't want people gaping in at my bathroom or bedroom, but I honestly don't quite understand why it matters if people see the interior of my house lit up at night or one of us walking through the kitchen.

I wouldn't leave my kids in the car, though.

I don't lock my door at night...

I genuinely don't think people would mind that? Plus, I do find it odd to generalise about the habits of 67 million people, of various ethnicities and origins. They can't all be "obsessed". You aren't, and you live in the UK?
I couldn't care less whether people keep blinds closed or open them.
Their choice.

I don’t know why this is always seen as so unbelievable on here. I’ve genuinely not seen my house keys in months. I need to find them before we go on holiday.

Denmark or another Scandinavian country?

People leave their babies in prams outside shops and their bikes at the bus stop for the day while they work in the city.

When I was at a waterpark there, a woman sent her primary age DD on a slide with me while she changed her baby.

I'm not berating anyone, but I'm not from the UK (although I live in London now) and I do find British people are a bit obsessed with privacy. I get not wanting a half dozen neighbours staring out the window at you while you're sunning yourself in the garden, and I wouldn't want people gaping in at my bathroom or bedroom, but I honestly don't quite understand why it matters if people see the interior of my house lit up at night or one of us walking through the kitchen.

I wouldn't leave my kids in the car, though.

Indeed. My favourite was the one where the poster berated folks in the UK for closing curtains and blinds at night. Where they live, there is no need! People benefit from the lit up houses, and aren't so uptight that they care about privacy. 🙄

Denmark or another Scandinavian country?

People leave their babies in prams outside shops and their bikes at the bus stop for the day while they work in the city.

When I was at a waterpark there, a woman sent her primary age DD on a slide with me while she changed her baby.

Iceland has an almost non-existent car theft rate - a combination of most people knowing each other and being such a tiny island a car is easily traced

Which magical country doesn't have car theft and nonces?

It'll be the same Neverland where the posters live who never lock their doors, not even at night.

Oh don’t be daft. I live in a market town in Kent and I bloody love it here. Feel very safe and I feel so happy my children are growing up here

Do you spout this fear mongering drivel to your children @Northermcharn ?

Yes, but ...
I live in rural Scotland. People often leave doors unlocked, babies in prams etc and a very proud of it being a very traditional very 'local' community.
Some years ago Robert Black snatched a child from her garden in broad daylight. Even closer, a couple of years ago, a local businessman, long known for being troubled, with a history of cross dressing and stealing womens underwear, abducted a young girl in broad daylight & kept her in a specially made area in his house (fortunately she was eventually able to call the Police)
NAMALT but the ones that are are a massive risk. It's not a safe option.

When I lived in Australia this happened in our city. Parents had left the keys in and the a/c running so they could unload groceries without waking a sleeping child. The car was stolen while the car sat on the drive way and the baby was missing for several hours, it was awful, there were helicopters out searching and the car was eventually found abandoned with the baby absolutely fine.

I don’t know why this is always seen as so unbelievable on here. I’ve genuinely not seen my house keys in months. I need to find them before we go on holiday.

In Saudi you can be executed for lots of things. Proven and unproven, like eg witchcraft. Often trumped up charges. One reason I would never live there.

Yeah, I’m sure we’d love to be whipping people and cutting their hands off in the U.K. for theft.

Speak for yourself. Where do you live in the uk? So I know to avoid it!