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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2014 20:45:27 GMT -5
I heard a wonderful and true story today about burglaries going on inside one of our area's elite gated communities. The front side is mega-secure with gate, guard, etc. But the community lies along a creek (very pricey waterfront properties, everyone has boat docks, etc.) and the bad guys are launching small boats upstream, breaking in through the back of the homes and making quick getaways since local law enforcement doesn't have boats. Gates can breed a false sense of security.
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zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 29, 2014 20:49:14 GMT -5
Anyone who relies on a gate for security is nuts although when the last three houses were being built, materials didnt disappear like they do in Ungated communities. Ours is purely for road maintenance. I'm sure others don't care for rubberneckers but I'm sure some don't mind. I mind paying for roads others use. As in my HOA fees.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jan 30, 2014 13:14:44 GMT -5
My MIL lives in a gated Manufactured home community. I think it helps keep the place from being your typical trailer trash (well that and the developer requires all homes face the street and permanent foundations and a lot of other things). The owner of the large horse farm we are doing improvements on has an elaborate gate system. I really don't blame him. His driveway is a long nicely paved road and you don't want people accidentally driving down your driveway. He also has an elaborate gate system on his Trucking company and hotels that he owns. They had a real problem with prostitution at the hotel where the trainees stay at. The guys wouldn't make it out of their trucks and a prostitute would just climb on in (so the story goes). The gate cut on that.
There are a few gated communities in town. I like living in the country, so it really isn't something I think about if I would like to live in one or not. If I were to live in a manufactured home community, I would probably choose the one my MIL lives in because it is just a regular subdivision. I couldn't afford to live in any of the other gated communities in town.
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Post by raeoflyte on Feb 1, 2014 9:48:40 GMT -5
Definitely not a gated community kind of person. For me its more an issue of what youre keeping in, than what you're keeping out.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2014 9:58:20 GMT -5
Move to the country, fence your property, get a guard lion and let him eat whatever he catches.
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tloonya
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Post by tloonya on Feb 1, 2014 12:44:40 GMT -5
I would love to live in one but I would prefer one with roof as well. So like gated and roofed community. Is there any?
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Post by Value Buy on Feb 1, 2014 13:40:55 GMT -5
When one lives in a gated single family community, when a crime occurs, security usually knows who in the community committed the crime, since they usually live there, or are relatives of an owner!
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Post by weltschmerz on Feb 1, 2014 17:09:22 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever seen a gated community in my neck of the woods.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2014 17:59:42 GMT -5
There aren't many gated communities with houses here. A few, but not many. A lot of the apartment complexes are gated though. I know someone that lives in an apartment complex with a gate. I think everyone that's ever known anyone that lived there knows how to get in the complex without any problem. One time the gate was malfunctioning and the guy behind me yelled the code to me, I guess he thought I was calling someone and they weren't answering.
Unfortunately, because of what the code is, I wonder if it's one that city employees use to get into the complex. Which makes me wonder if it's a universal code that works for city employees to get into all the gated complexes around here. That would really defeat the purpose of all the gates if there's a universal code that's so well known that even I know what it is. It really is a false sense of security.
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