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After living in a dangerous city my whole life, I think living in a place where break ins are consequences of owners being lazy would be awesome.
by 101008 4y ago
After living in a dangerous city my whole life, I think living in a place where break ins are consequences of owners being lazy would be awesome.
- duxup 4y agoThe sleepy suburbs have their downsides, but also their upsides for sure.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoPeople like to hate on suburbs for a lot of valid reasons but moving back to one as an adult after spending my 20s in the city was profoundly calming.
- garborg 4y agoSame. I've left my garage door open on the way out so many times (in a quiet, unremarkable cul de sac -- neither upscale nor rundown) without consequence that I no longer worry about whether or not I closed it.
- matsemann 4y agoNever heard of a break in in the city my family is from. No one ever locks their doors. It's one of the nice things about a society where most people get the help they need, no need for people to do these crimes to survive.
- WalterBright 4y agoIf I leave my garage door open, the mice come in and set up shop. Takes a couple weeks to trap them all. Sometimes I even see them running in. I don't leave the door open unattended even for 5 minutes.
- greggman3 4y agoI grew up in suburbs and we used to leave our garage door open often up until day our bikes were stolen out of it.
- duxup 4y agoThe whole "hey kids go outside and play" and I don't feel the need to monitor them is wonderful if you've got kids.
- prvit 4y agoAlso a perfectly normal thing in cities in most of the world.
- iakov 4y agoIn the ones that have an "outside" for the kids, sure. In my experience, most of the bigger cities in Europe just don't have the space for the kids to hang out. Sure there are parks with playgrounds here and there, but they are separated by kilometers of concrete and stone. At least suburbs have the spaces and the clean air.
- lmm 4y agoCities have a lot more for kids to do within a kilometer or two, IME. In a suburb you may have "space" but it's all just people's lawns and strips of grass next to the road.
- Bluecobra 4y agoNot all suburbs are set up like that. Mine has a nice “downtown” area in walking distance with plenty to do. There’s mid-rise buildings, shops, restaurants, bars, and a train station to the city if you get bored.
- lmm 4y agoYou need density for that kind of "downtown", which is in fundamental tension with this notion of "space". I used to live in Ealing, which calls itself "Queen of the suburbs", but I don't think that's the kind of place iakov was talking about.
- dzhiurgis 4y ago
- bluedino 4y agoThey're also easy targets for people to break in during the day while people are at work. I chased a person out of my garage in broad daylight who ended up being a porch pirate.
- kube-system 4y agoCrimes of opportunity are also the most common crimes in places with more crime. What’s awesome is living somewhere that crimes of opportunity don’t even happen. There are still places where people don’t lock doors because they don’t need to.
- stanislavb 4y agoI’d say that lots of areas in Australia are like that. Even in big cities like Syd and Melb.
- kube-system 4y agoI live in a medium sized US city and my truck has been parked on a city street with tools in it, unlocked, for two years. Most people lock their doors here, but even in a city known for a medium amount of crime, it isn't really that bad.
- tharkun__ 4y agoOpposite anecdote: car was broken into to steal the stereo (yes its been a while ;)). The door lock was damaged and wouldn't close any longer. A day later the car was broken into again. While the lock was still broken and no stereo in the car. Someone smashed in the side window and left the door ajar too. Nothing got stolenthat time around.
- kube-system 4y agoThe one time I had my car broken into was in a nice quiet town with low crime. But I was on a not-so-great street. Crime is pretty localized. Most criminals don't go very far out of their way.
- ghostbrainalpha 4y agoWorst part about it was that it was probably the same person breaking in both times.
- iamthepieman 4y agoWorst break in I've ever had was a skunk. Came in through a sliding door left open for ventilation on a hot summer night. Woke up to scuffling under my bed. Using my phone light I saw the telltale black with white stripe tail sticking out from under the bed and froze. Sat in bed for a minute pondering my sad and mostly likely odorous fate. Finally walked on furniture to the bedroom door while the skunk was apparently chewing my leather shoes, set a trail of cheese leading out the sliding door and sat in silence and darkness on the stairs overlooking the cheese trail. Eventually it came sniffling out methodically gobbling cheese right back out to where it belonged. Got a locking screen door after that...and a new pair of loafers.