I'm afraid to let my daughter go to study in the city

 

My daughter is finishing school next year. It's time to decide where to go, and this is insanely difficult. We live in a small provincial town. There was a case recently. We went for a walk to the center, at first I decided to park my car in one place, I told my daughter about it, but there all the places were taken, and I parked in another. We went for a walk, on the way back we met our daughter's friend. She stayed to talk, and I slowly went to the car. I got to the car, I was waiting, I was waiting, I returned back to the place where I left my daughter, but she is not there. I didn't know what to think. It was panic. Downtown, full of people, where could she go? She did not take her phone with her. I wasted a lot of nerves, decided to go home, find her friend's number on her phone and call her to find out where my daughter went. I come home, my daughter is all in tears, waiting for me at the door. It turned out she forgot where we parked. She came to where I was originally going to park, saw that there was no car, and decided that I left without her. A person in school has one year left to study! How can I send her to a big city! How can she be independent there, if even in our small town such a case happened to her. And now I'm at a loss, I cannot choose where to send her to study after school.