People around me are already looking at me with distrust. You can't take pictures in front of a pawn shop or a credit shop. Not even in front of a residential building.
I am from Hungary, and some people do the same here too. There was an older guy in the city a few weeks ago. He asked me why I take photos of him, while I took photos about the sunrise, and he was behind me. I very rarely take photos about people. Mostly it is accidental with strangers. Sometimes they (either strangers, relatives or friends) ask me to take a photo about them. But that is rare.
I also rarely and only occasionally take pictures of people, and when someone asks me to take a picture of them on the street, I feel uncomfortable. But I've also had cases when people give me threatening looks because they think I'm taking pictures of them or taking pictures of their home.
It's really strange what you say about Hungary because, as @lightcaptured noted, the constant suspicion of people towards each other is characteristic of former communist countries. And yes, in our country, even in churches it is forbidden to take pictures, and no one can give an explanation as to why this is so.
Ditto!
Hey, reading your comment about Hungary with regards to taking photos in such places, made me curious, is it ok to take photos inside churches in your country?
I do not know. I have not tried taking photos inside churches so far. Only outside.
It's very interesting to me, as I traveled and travel around Europe and that's like a dividing line between the "Western civilization" and our former pack of "socialist" countries, affected by the USSR. In my country, Bulgaria, it is prohibited in 99% of the churches. The exceptions are either one has to pay to take photos or that church is some special one, that's actually more like a museum. I can't wrap my head around this. Total nonsense :)))
Thank you :)