Zuckerschnecke, my little part of the US is not so different from where you live by what you've said.
Children in the little towns in my area can be seen roaming freely without an adult in sight. Many children still walk to and from school without adult supervision. When I had my dog training business, I had students who were children who would come to class on their own.
There was a period last summer after the two cousins in Evansdale, Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook, disappeared that it seemed like all the children had evaporated from my area. The only time a child was seen, the child was closely attended by an adult.
In the last month or so, though, things are getting back to normal. I live about 90 miles from Evansdale, so it isn't quite so immediate here.
The 5 or 6 year old who lives across the road from me walks to his bus stop alone, about 1/5th of a mile (0.32 kilometres). He is the only child at that stop but it is in such an out of the way area, I don't think he's in any danger at all. You have to take a gravel road to get to our gravel road, so we're really out in the boonies, as they say here. There is no way to get to our house that doesn't involve a minimum of 2.5 miles on gravel roads (4.02 kilometres).
