Teo · 11 answers · 3y

Do you have many residential gated communities where you live? What do you think of the concept/history of gated communities?

I don’t think there are many in my area. Maybe 2-3 on the outskirts of town. We’re not that bougie here.

There aren't any Karen/Daren farms in my general vicinity, but there are quite a few in the city and the surrounding area. Actually, my old building was formerly gated. By the time I lived there the actual gate and fencing was gone and all that was left was the skeleton of the gate. It's social segregation, and putting the gate and fences up increases paranoia and police activity in the area. And that puts people in the area who don't live behind the gates, or who don't "seem" (LOOK) like they live behind the gate to paranoid residents, at risk of injury and murder.

Yes, even within established neighborhoods there are gated sections. I think if you have the money and want the extra security that’s all well and good, but I also think it ruptures their sense of community overall. So if used for security I approve, if used for a sense of “exclusivity” I find that to be silly and haughty.

There's a few, most of the time it's just full of uptight karens that think they live in beverly hills but it's actually just fucking long beach. Also they usually have a bunch of dumb ass rules like you can't work on your car IN YOUR OWN GARAGE and stuff like that

I can't remember seeing any since I've been based in New England, but it's not like I was looking for them...I think it's because it's generally whiter and wealthier and those communities are a product of places where the poors and minorities live reasonably close by and you can't have them just walking freely onto your propertah

No, I don't think I've ever seen those here. Just in the south. Florida is full of them, as was South Carolina when I briefly stayed there. I would think people in places ran by Republicans experience a larger than normal wealth inequality and therefore people with money feel less secure about being broken into. The more desperate people get the more likely they'd resort to petty crimes like burglary.

Literally every house where I live has a fence over ten feet tall and some with barbed wire at the top. Everything is gated here haha

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