Trust me, if I ever in my life even entertained the idea of a gated "community" you have my permission to just shoot me. I would no more want to numb myself from the outside world than I would want to drive an autonomic transmission. I don't roll that way, isolating myself from reality. And I put the word "community" in quotes because isolating oneself away from the world is the opposite of community. So no, there's absolutely no "jealousy" here. More like "pity".
The question (if it were yours which it isn't) would be "safety" -- from what? And the reason for the original question is "curiosity". So if you think I'm not allowed to ask that question, well we know who the haters are. But apparently we don't know who the quoters are, as this question wasn't directed to you anyway. Butt in to speak for others much?
I'm genuinely curious why anyone in their right mind would want to imprison themselves behind a rigamarole of superficial regulations as already described here, behind a gate. Makes no sense to me. Down the road here there's a sign for such a prison advertising "A gated community with a spectacular view of the mountains". Thing is, (a) the mountains are already all around us, and (b) there are no black people here anyway (which is sad but that's the way it is). No crime, no gangs, no city, no town. So why anyone already in a vast expanse of wooded mountainous bliss would want to hunker behind a gate is beyond my comprehension.
So the question stands.
I'll butt in when I damn well please if I see some clown misrepresenting something they obviously dont understand.
When I lived in the boonies I had a gate ...so it was a private gated community? As a matter of fact pretty much every rural home has a gate. I would think you would hate that even more since it's so exclusive that only the owner can enter. So where is the hate for them?
Your arguments make no sense. Why do you have a locks on your doors? Who are you trying to keep out?
Thats no different then a gated community using your definition.
Gated communities are just one more level of security. Not sure what your problem is with them.....other then jealousy.
And I'm not sure what you're problem is other than reading comprehension (which is not limited to jumping in on questions that weren't your proposal in the first place).
I'm in the boonies right now and I have no gate, since I have no cattle. And while I have locks on my doors (because doorknobs are made that way) I don't bother to lock them, or my cars, unless I go out. So the sentence "where is the hate for them" makes zero sense to me. I don't get why you're obsessed with "hate" in the first place.
So no, when I'm here at home there is nothing and nobody "locked out". Not only have I not isolated myself but sometimes I'll go out just to
prevent isolation. Now if my propensity for the direct opposite of the concept somehow perverts into "jealousy" in your tiny little buttinsky mind, then I assume you just "hate" logic.
-- Which doesn't matter, since I didn't ask you.
The question is still put to Harry Dresden. Buttinskies notwithstanding.