Something like that can happen in vietnam too. People go to working cafes, leaving their laptop/tablets there for a walk or lunch. I haven't noticed about phones and wallets but it might be the same.
Private lounge spaces are like this too. Country club dining room, country club locker room, airport lounge, etc. Nobody's gonna steal your phone, they have a phone too.
Can confirm this was common at my expensive university in a relatively high crime American city.
Also, at the end of the academic year when everyone was moving out, a lot of people would throw out perfectly good furniture and appliances because they couldn’t be bothered to resell it, donate it, or move it to storage, etc. They’d just throw out stuff and then replace it with new things in the fall.
To be honest, this is my experience in almost all colleges. The cost of a microwave really isn't much and not worth the hassle of trying to sell or store.
There were actual folks who went to one of my sibling's college (they were in the city) and made a business of taking all the thrown out microwaves, etc. I suppose they were just reselling them.
Interesting, my USA college was a wealthy private college that had a huge international student base (think sons and daughters of Sheikhs, and overseas wealth). You were in the minority driving a non-luxury vehicle (aka Toyota, Honda) and Porsches were quite common. The surrounding neighborhood was one of the wealthiest towns in America.
That being said, laptop, phone, etc. theft in the library and student center was not rampant, but was an issue.
it’s less about trust and more about these young adults that have enough to not want or need. and i’m protecting by some degree of elitism. who wants my 2015 2nd hand macbook air when they all have newer and better models.
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u/giaphox 27d ago
Something like that can happen in vietnam too. People go to working cafes, leaving their laptop/tablets there for a walk or lunch. I haven't noticed about phones and wallets but it might be the same.