I really struggle to understand the purpose of gated communities. As a workmen type dude who has regularly had to go into these places, every time I’m stuck at a gate calling someone to open up, without fail someone else waiting behind me will buzz me in no questions asked. Also usually nothing stopping you from walking around the gate, sure you can’t bring a car in, but other than that nothing stopping you.
Why not just move to a gated community
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Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 48 minutes ago
Cable guys and pizza delivery people know how to get into every gated complex in the city.
AreaKode@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Randoms don’t wander in. There is, at the minimum, an illusion of security with a security guard.
Security is security: the more you have, the more difficult target you look. It doesn’t necessarily make you safer, but the illusion exists on both sides.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 20 hours ago
There is also more legal protection from trespassing. It isn’t illegal to be on a public road or sidewalk in a neighborhood you don’t live in, and you can’t be trespassed unless you commit a crime. If the road and sidewalk are privately owned they can tell you to leave for any/no reason.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Unless the neighborhood is actually paying for a living human to stand guard, it’s just a premium for the illusion of security. They just want to feel like the “others” can’t just waltz in.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Once they couldn’t do redlining anymore, racist homeowners decided to sequester themselves and set up little clubs where they can control who moves into the neighborhood…or at least pressure less desirable folk into leaving.
Beebabe@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It’s called response effort. The idea is that an action in particular is less likely to occur because it’s more effort than you’re motivated to spend in that moment.
Ever have a few things you could easily do, you’ve done them before, you’ll do them again another time, but that one time the extra steps make it not worth the effort?
It works a surprisingly large amount of the time especially where impulsive behavior is concerned.
Similar thing with locking our doors etc however there are additional motivational forces at play. Yeah they aren’t vaults, but if this one is locked and barricaded and it’ll take 10 minutes to negotiate vs the next one down being open…it’s an easy choice.
CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Gated communities were originally invented to keep black people out. Simple as that.
shalafi@lemmy.world 49 minutes ago
I’m from Tulsa and even the poor apartment complexes are gated.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I lived in a gated community from age 11 through moving out for college and it’s BS. All it does is make it difficult for people to visit. And I suppose you have to pay for an HOA. My neighborhood was pretty diverse though.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
What would it take for this annotatuon to be reversed?
Not much.
shalafi@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
Spent the first half of my life in Tulsa. If the complex or neighborhood isn’t gated, then at least everyone has fences. Assumed it was like that everywhere.
Move to Chicago and not only are gated areas really rare, nobody has fences! Weird.
Now I’m in the South and nothing is gated, fences maybe, maybe not. We don’t even have curbs down here, forget sidewalks, not even in the bougie suburb and nice neighborhoods.
As a cable guy in Tulsa, we all knew how to get into any gated area. We knew loads of codes and some where predictable, MMYY, 1125 this month. Also, if you have ladders on top of your truck and wear a tool belt, you become invisible.