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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 01:59 PM Original message |
Poll question: How many DUers live in a Gated Community |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. Here in Houston, gated community can mean a couple of things. |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. So .... how do you enter? |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Did you see the part where I wrote "accessible by code only"? |
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zaj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:39 PM Response to Reply #2 |
17. Not sure of your point... but there is usually a point to a gated community |
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barbiegeek (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
31. Single women like gated apartments |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. My community is rural and very mixed income |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
5. I live with my family in the country on a couple of acres. |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
6. Is this a joke???? ................... |
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zaj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. ROFL... poll fail? |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. So how did you answer the questions |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
62. If not do you people that live in them? |
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zaj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:53 PM Response to Reply #25 |
66. I didn't get your thought... |
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Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:24 PM Response to Reply #6 |
59. Yup, total fail...Unrec for logic-deficit. n/t |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
7. I do live in one but the gate never works anyway. I didn't choose it for the gate, |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:02 PM Response to Reply #7 |
53. I live in one too. But like you, I chose it for other reasons. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
8. In "Snow Crash" Neal Stephenson calls them "burbclaves".. |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Thanks I forgot I read that book 20 years ago |
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WestSeattle2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
9. "Gated community" is a loaded phrase. In Seattle, condo's that |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I meant the second type as you suggested |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
12. No, I live in a gated country |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:18 PM Response to Reply #12 |
35. In some ways. Big fence to keep those poor people (and their problems) away. n/t |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
13. You forgot "don't have a lock on the door". I lost my house key at least 10 years ago. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:07 PM Response to Reply #13 |
30. Me too. And here's my response on another thread re nice neighbors. |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:26 PM Response to Reply #13 |
38. you don't lock your front door?? |
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remember2000forever (594 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:30 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Nope, Don't lock my door either. Rottweiler |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 06:54 PM Response to Reply #38 |
70. I live just outside a little village in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
14. Gated community? No. I rarely lock my front door. |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:38 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Do you think that gated societies are healthy |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:49 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. I think gated communities are more of an elitist self image circle jerk. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
18. Does a security apartment complex (with gated parking and pedestrian gates) |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:47 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Apparently not, but the OP doesn't make that clear. I live in one of those too but |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
43. I'm not talking about a condo or apartment complex |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:39 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Okay, got it. nt |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:19 PM Response to Reply #43 |
56. That's not true |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:40 PM Response to Reply #43 |
63. Big enough? |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:47 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I live in Europe and many Apartment Blocks are gated |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
19. Good on you to remind me |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
23. I live in one |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
24. I live out in the sticks and had to put up the mother of all security gates to keep off roaders out |
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Monique1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:02 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. A month ago I lived in a gated community |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 07:05 PM Response to Reply #26 |
72. Out where I am cougars and snakes are the real risks |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:03 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. Maybe you need to hire guards ask the neighbors to support |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 07:03 PM Response to Reply #28 |
71. What neighbors? |
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bluedigger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:03 PM Response to Original message |
27. I don't even lock my front door. Shh! Don't tell anybody! |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #27 |
41. ba haha. secret safe with me. promise. nt |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:39 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. My father said that a lock only keeps and honest man |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:40 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. oh, i so agree. i like that saying, too. nt |
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barbiegeek (844 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
29. We have them here & not all are for Rich it's about dock/river waterway safety |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
32. I've lived in a shitload of apartment complexes that were gated. |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
33. I don't live in a gated community nor do I have guards ... |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
34. No gates or locks around here. Except some for looks maybe? |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
36. I live in a maximum security federal prison |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:22 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Well.... you need to fly out of the states and |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #36 |
42. gated, lock on door, security system AND guards. wow. you won. nt |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
40. lock on door and security system. wouldnt want gated for anything. but |
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tech9413 (294 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
47. No I just have a lock on my door |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
48. Have in the past, our current subdivision is not - |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
49. i live in a very exclusive gated community |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 06:51 PM Response to Reply #49 |
69. GREAT graphic! Everyone should grab this one. |
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Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 08:25 PM Response to Reply #49 |
74. *right click* *set as desktop background* |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 04:44 PM Response to Original message |
50. My fence has a gate. I lock my door. My pit bulls |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:42 PM Response to Reply #50 |
64. Can you imagine the look on a burglar's face |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:51 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. Any burgler would have to be deaf |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
51. Even if I could afford one I find gated communities way to pretentious for my taste. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
52. poll doesn't include option for me. Live in a gated community, yes |
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Liquorice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
54. No gate, but I have a security system and sleep much better because of it. nt |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
55. even if i was wealthy i don't think i would want to live in them |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
57. We don't have gated communities in my area |
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Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
58. I live in a gated community, but it's just a gate, no guard. |
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quiller4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
60. Does a gated mobile home park count? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
61. This is the US |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
67. PS...... you all live in a gated community |
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social_critic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
68. I live in Venezuela, where crime is incredibly high |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
73. Not me (nt) |
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delightfulstar (402 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-29-11 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
75. No gates, but I do have a large security door... |
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