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Feron

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16. I don't get the appeal.

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Thu Jan 22, 2015, 08:52 AM

Jan 2015

It's a hassle with only the illusion of security. A dog would be a much better security investment.

Plus to me it's like living in a community jail. No thank you.

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We Have A Lot Of No Go Zones In US. They Are Called Gated Communities. [View all] TheMastersNemesis Jan 2015 OP

WE also have Sunset Towns. Downwinder Jan 2015 #1

You mean trespassing? You'll probably get the cops called on you. So what? nt Dreamer Tatum Jan 2015 #2

My Experience BSS Jul 2015 #17

Some are gated cities aint_no_life_nowhere Jan 2015 #3

This is where the original Housewives of OC started rufus dog Jan 2015 #5

My feelings exactly. n/t FSogol Jan 2015 #6

Gated communities Coventina Jan 2015 #4

Coto takes it to a new level rufus dog Jan 2015 #7

Gated communities are snobbery, pure and simple. They try to bleat about "security" and what-not Coventina Jan 2015 #9

Who won the lawsuit?? cstanleytech Jan 2015 #11

If it is a gated community with private streets pennylane100 Jan 2015 #12

As far as I know they do , they fix the roads , hire plow trucks when it snows etc.. glasshouses Jan 2015 #14

Nailed! freshwest Jan 2015 #8

Whatever you do . . . OldRedneck Jan 2015 #10

You don't see that many in the North but the South is filled with them glasshouses Jan 2015 #13

The most segregated ethnic group in the US? Behind the Aegis Jan 2015 #15

I don't get the appeal. Feron Jan 2015 #16

They are popular in parts of Europe as well. nt MADem Jul 2015 #18