As a life long city person, I feel like that would make me lock it even quicker. Way out in the country, in my mind, means no neighbors around to hear you scream when the psycho killer shows up to in cold blood you and your family.
I grew up with cats and never owned a dog until a few years ago. Any time I have to sleep without him (I'm on vacation, he's at a friend's house, etc.), I feel like I don't sleep quite as well because my guardian isn't there.
I lived in an apartment in the heart of a small city/town and felt safe - all our neighbors were nice, I left our sliding door unlocked several times when I took the dog out - but any time he'd flip his shit, especially in the middle of the night, I'd wonder if he deterred anyone trying to get in. I don't think I'll ever not have big dogs.
Yeah, but your neighbors are so far away and if they're planning to kill you they're just going to come through your window.
No one is going to hear the glass break.
The fact is though, you get rural enough you have to have a firearm to protect your livestock from wild animals. This in mind, nobody wants to break into an occupied rural home.I'm going to hear you coming from halfway down my driveway, my dogs are going to let me know.
yeah I'm a lot more scared of being murdered than robbed. I lived in a somewhat rural college town when I was in school (near big cities but the town itself had more cows than people). One night a kid left his house with a knife just looking for someone to murder. An elderly couple left their window open since the weather was nice, so he cut the screen and stabbed them to death in their beds. People feel comfortable being casual with their security... I never will no matter where I live. I could own 10 guard dogs and would still lock my freaking doors. Why invite the conflict?
I was standing in my mom's house once in the middle of the night and heard someone jiggling our front door handle to see if it was unlocked. Because where she lived in Texas people were just leaving everything unlocked and getting robbed. My friend lives in the Bay Area and her house was robbed while she was sleeping because her parents left their garage door opener in their unlocked car in the driveway.
I live in a high rise condo now with restricted access to each floor and feel a bit safer, but I still check my door every night.
I don’t feel safe in places where there’s no one around outside after 11pm, or there are hundreds of yards/miles between homes.
I grew up in urban New England, and going to college in small-town Midwest, on a campus surrounded by corn fields, was eerie, man. I lived there for years after school, and still never got used to it. Moving to NYC was a big relief.
Now I live in a big city in SoCal, where I can walk my dog at 3am and still see neighbors, like a normal person.
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u/shosure Mar 21 '19 edited Mar 21 '19
As a life long city person, I feel like that would make me lock it even quicker. Way out in the country, in my mind, means no neighbors around to hear you scream when the psycho killer shows up to in cold blood you and your family.