> Voting on a country level here is too coarse, this poll is invalid.

> I live in Vietnam and I can see it's getting colored red already but that's unfair.

Also, it's a tiny sample: eight votes to represent a country of 100 million people.

Yeah, same in the US. I would not leave my laptop in a cafe in SF. I would in the Austin suburbs. I might or might not in Chicago depending on the neighborhood and cafe.

There's many issues with this.

- MacBooks are not very attractive theft targets anyway, when properly locked you can only sell them for parts. Wallet or camera or non-Apple laptop would be much more telling.

- Except for Japan, most places it depends on specifics. Who is around, where exactly is the branch, time of day/year (in a couple of countries petty theft rises before Lunar New Year when struggling people especially need money), did you leave a whole setup on your table or is it just lonely closed-lid laptop so someone can pretend it's theirs.

- "Safe to walk at night" isn't what people usually mean by "walkable". Most of the countries in the top are not "walkable".

- This does not account for race and gender. Some white male techbro is probably fine walking alone at night in most places in Thailand, but a woman or an Asian person is another story. The other year multiple people were kidnapped and it caused a big drop in tourism, and a few years earlier double murder of Westerners had some official say the woman should be either ugly or not wear bikini.

- China in the top is funny, I'm aware of multiple knife attacks on foreigners (one happened in central Beijing and I was in the city at the time).

The page says Starbucks, not a random area, random coffee shop. I think it is a valid test. Starbucks is properly staffs, in reasonably busy area, the shop is enclosed.

I would say I’ve had great experience in hcmc and Hanoi shops and left it unattended, matters most which shop but for the majority no issue at all.

Leaving it in that cliche highland coffee shop location in D1 by that street, yeah, no.

Indonesia too, no issue across Jakarta, Depok, Yogya, Bali, Lombok, etc

I’m surprised at Japan, I would thought it be a zero. No issue at any location at all.

you are taking this too literally. try to see it as proxy for questions like 'will i get my wallet back from uber drive' or 'will my purse be snatched by street scooters'

Relevant LKY: https://youtu.be/b_6H26fpZp8

Those countries have pruned-controlled immigration systems. What leads to sudden disruptions in observances of law are newcomers who are not familiar with how things work in the new culture. If someone were to walk into town where all the shops and stores keep their doors open and have a box on the counter for payment when someone feels like they need something, it would be a strange sight. And this person would wrestle with the idea of taking something and not paying in full with a bunch of pros and cons. Maybe after some time he will understand better how to proceed.

South Korea has CCTVs all over the place (especially in the cities), and even small-scale robbery is treated as a very serious crime that often it's not worth the risk.

what if other people want to use that table? is it okay to move their laptop/bags off?

I actually find it annoying if people put stuff on tables and then walk away for an hour or more, hogging a spot that could be used by others.

Thanks, I couldn't imagine such a distinction initially. I have added a separation between Local and Chain coffeeshops in the site.

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I'm on safari without an adblocker, not sure what sketchy stuff my ASN is up to

Surely they’re using a third party mapping library and they have absolutely 0 control over what the borders look like in disputed areas.