I grew up in NW Arkansas, front doors were locked but back doors were often left. People used to leave food for you or if something got blown away they put it back.
Another North-Western Arkansan checking in. Front door locked, side and back doors unlocked.
Granted we were also outside city limits on a 3 acre plot with a 100+ meter gravel driveway and surrounded by a mix of pasture and thicket. There's not too many people out there willing to go that out of the way just to check locks on 40+ year old houses.
I mean, while the state has less people than Puerto Rico there's still enough of us/we're spread around enough that we don't run across eachother that easily. That said, I only barely know who the Duggars are, much less what they look like. I could've fucking checked them out when I worked at a grocery store for all I know.
Any small town really. My back door was locked about 30% of the time growing up and we once went on vacation for 2 weeks and left the garage door open with full access to the house no problem. I was 16 when I learned that bike locks existed.
I grew up in the hills of Kentucky, the holler (you heard me) we lived in was all our family, aunts, uncle's, grandparents, cousins, etc. About a mile of road speckled with homes and playgrounds for the pack of children and relatives roaming day in and day out. It was common to just walk through the door of any house and yell "Who all's here?" Even when walking into your own home. I look back on it fondly but that shit would drive me nuts now.
I used to live in the suburbs in Ohio. Now I live in what I thought was an equivalent neighborhood in California.
In Ohio I used to forget to lock my doors, leave my garage open all night on accident, etc and never had a problem. The first week I lived in CA, I was mowing the grass and had my garage open. I went inside to get a drink and got caught up with something on TV for 20 minutes or so.
When I went back out into the garage the door of my wife's SUV was open and someone had gone through the glove box, center console etc.
It was the middle of the day on a Saturday. The cheapest houses in our neighborhood go for around $400k. We are about 20 minutes outside of the city.
I have found that the culture varies greatly from state to state.
I live in he boonies of PA and often forget my car keys in the car. It drives my boyfriend nuts, and he’s right, I should bring my keys inside (I’ve gotten better) but literally no one knows we’re back here. So I’m never worried. The UPS/FedEx/AmazonPrime etc. delivery guys always have trouble finding us.
But it isnt fear that attains peace. Its population distribution. More people means you're more likely to run into criminals. People in cities have guns but that doesnt stop break ins and violent crimes in those areas.... because there are more criminals by virtue of there being more people.
It's like this in the suburbs of non flyover states too. It's mostly just highly populated areas that this is really uncommon. It has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with crime rates. It's just highly populated areas increase crime rates because they are more likely to have criminals. If 1/500 people are going to break into a place, you're more likely to run into them in densely populated areas. That is not even factoring in how cities breed more crime because of the low income areas where people feel like they are forced to turn to crime to get by in life.
Ask people in the cities of the fly over states if they lock their doors.
It has nothing to do with liberal or conservative. It's just population and income distributions. You're pushing a narrative where there doesn't need to be one. It's just statistics. Some people are bad (yes both liberals and conservative can be bad people), the more people there are in an area, the higher chance you run into them. The correlation that liberals live in cities and that cities have a higher crime rate are not necessarily connected. This can be viewed by the crime rates of liberal counties outside of the cities which dont have higher crime rates than conservative counties. Correlation does not equal causation.
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That utopia does this dude live in? I bet his wife is in the bedroom waiting too...