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Джордж Томас в восемь лет ходил всюду. Его родители не могли даже оплатить ему трамвай, тем более купить велосипед, и он регулярно проходил шесть миль до своего любимого места рыбалки без сопровождения взрослых.

Его восьмилетний правнук может в одиночку уйти не дальше конца своей улицы.

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Still - I would give up all rivers and ponds of my childhood for a computer in age of eight.

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this is 100% dependent on where you live
when I was eight and living in moscow, I was allowed to the end of the block
when I was visiting my grandparents' in the country, I could walk anywhere I please
kids who live in small towns and villages have a lot more freedom, inversely proportional to the size of the place
so this difference in the pic is probably because what was a small village in 1911 grew into a big city 100 yrs later

and I bet nobody in his right mind would fish in that river now, unless it's to poison the rats with that fish