I used to travel all over Brooklyn NY by myself when I was 7 or 8. In the summer I’d get up, find something to eat and take off (my mother was still asleep) Like 3139lip, I’d wait until a grown up (a woman) could take me across the street. I’d not come back until it was getting toward dinnertime (yep - went all day without eating or drinking, except water at the parks) That was the mid ‘50’s
Love it - but men complain too.