>> Glad I don't live there anymore.

Glad I dont live in places like that at all. :-)

For the record, I live in Mebane, a small town that's pretty much a suburb of Greensboro, NC. I live in an apartment complex where I know about half the people in my particular unit.

Granted, just down the highway about 30 miles where I work is Durham, NC, which has one of the highest crime rates in the region. Lotsa gangs, and a police department that seems more than a little inept (These are the clowns that brought us the infamous Duke Lacrosse team rape case). Yeah, if I lived there, I'd lock down everything, every night. But that's why I dont live there.

And lest you think it's only small towns that can get away with such a free and easy attitude, Calgary, Alberta, has an absurdly low crime rate -- this is a place that's sent into shock when there's one murder a month. Two is unheard of. My neighbourhood there, for six years, just off the main drag of 17th Ave SW, was also a place where no one bothered an unlocked door.

Go figure, folks.

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