Would you feel safe working with your laptop in any public park in your city?

31 comments

1. Yes

2. Yeah

3. What exactly am i afraid of?

4. Yes. The most dangerous thing about it would be the glare.

5. There are public parks I would feel safe in. There are public parks I might get shot in or at the very least, step on some syringes. Having a laptop or not would not be relevant to feeling safe.

6. Yeah, why? What would one fear could happen?

7. Yes, given dry weather.

8. Most of them, yes.

9. Sure.

   Though the sun and other environmental elements, also not having Wi-Fi or a power source, would be a bigger concern.

10. Any public park? Absolutely not, I would get robbed. But there are some where I would feel safe

11. Yes, I wouldn’t fear physical harm. However, there’s a fair chance someone would grab that laptop and run off, though.

12. Already 2 nopes on r/asklatinamerica out of 3 and removed by r/askeurope. My town and county are probably one of the safest places in the US according to the New York Times. No worries about being stolen

13. Yes.

14. Yea

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16. Yes. Even in areas with moderate to high crime, the parks are more or less safe.

    I’d be more worried about a clumsy accident or sun glare

17. Yes

18. No, but I know many that I would

19. Yeah that would be fine

20. Of course.

21. In my little rural suburb? Sure, I do it more often than not, since I work from home and we have 3 boys that need space to wear themselves out. The city of Memphis? It would depend heavily on which park.

22. Any? No

    ——

    Fwiw, my brother’s girlfriend was doing this with an iPad and got jacked

    A group of kids ran up on her, threw a bunch of water balloons at her while one of them grabbed the iPad

    Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn.. not exactly the sketchiest of locations

23. Absolutely. No one is going to bother me.

24. Not American, but Canadian and I live near Montreal, so unless I was in Montreal Nord then yes I would feel safe working in a public park in fact I do it all the time

25. Depends where in the city. In my area, it would be fine—in fact many people work there with anti glare screen protectors.

26. yeah, why not?

27. Safe? Sure. But working on a laptop without a proper desk, monitor, keyboard, etc, sucks.

28. I wouldn’t say “anywhere” because there are some sketchy parks. But 90% of the places I would be totally fine.

    The bigger problem would be no wifi or power.

29. In many of them, sure. Perhaps not every single park, but I’d be less worried about someone taking my laptop than just being bothered in general. One park in my area I went to read recently and a guy kept trying to ask me to go to Dennys with him and showing like a Rite Aid card as proof he’d pay.

    So honestly the laptop wouldn’t be the issue at hand lol.

30. I wouldn’t do it in the Tenderloin

31. Some yes. The `burbs and away from downtown, yeah. Downtown/CBD, not just no, but Hell no. (I live in Orlando, for reference).