Depending on where you live, you're likely to encounter these people outside as well, except you can't turn them off. For example, I went to a female bathroom a few days ago, only to see a man in an illfitting blouse and skirt waltz on in, stop, look over the women washing their hands with a smile on his face, as if he can't believe that he's able to do this, before going to the cubicles. That's definitely not creepy and something I won't encounter in the outside world, right?

Not to mention there's transwomen who come to my work that I have to interact with. One older AGP got way too close to me, then when I told them that we need to social distance, he put his hand on my arm and said in a falsetto 'sorry, sweetie, I didn't notice'. He knows exactly what he was doing and was trying to see how far he could go.

So no, going outside isn't any better if you live in a progressive city. I'd love to live wherever you are.

Edit: Getting too close is something that I've seen middle-aged to elderly men do in general (more so when I was younger, but it's happening again now that I've lost a lot of weight), so I wasn't surprised by the AGP's behaviour in the slightest, just made extremely uncomfortable.