Your house/apartment/box/whatever you live in, is it safe?
Against trespassers, burglars, etc.

As for me, no. My windows and doors have double protection,
but there's a weak point; One of our windows doesn't have any locks,
they're broken.
*Edit: I also have Hurricane shutters on my windows/doors.
They don't help anything, but they're loud as hell if you try to open/close them.
My dogs do bark but I'm more afraid of someone stepping on them (thus killing them).

The idea of someone deciding to target my house scares me ;_;

Try not to turn this into a story-telling thread,
I honestly don't want to hear about it, it's too depressing,
not to mention this sort of thing creeps me out more than
A Haunting on Discovery Channel.

If a thread such as this has already been made...
I fail, excuse me hides under a rock

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Well, my back door isn't locked.
It's still too much of a hassle to get
in and I've never even heard of a burglar
visiting around here.

Honestly, no, my house isn't very safe considering how much I leave the windows open even in winter.

But I've never heard of anyone breaking in over here, the next neighborhood over, yes, but never here.

Must be because literally ever house has dogs and the houses are close so it'd be pretty hard to go unnoticed even by the people.

Although, if someone is really desperate, I doubt dogs and guns will scare them off easily.

Heeeeck no. I lock the door at night (I almost never lock it during the day, even when I leave), but my window's lock is broken. I'm not worried though, because the break in rate where I live is extremely low. Sure that's no excuse, but I don't have much worth stealing, y'know? xD

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A friend from work who came to visit one time described it like I'm "living in a safe".
So it's safe as well as a safe, apparently.

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Sure that's no excuse, but I don't have much worth stealing, y'know? xD

But people can do much more than just steal your stuff 🙁

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omw 😲 You people are crazy!! You would be dead in south africa. The crime rate is very high here! Most people have burglar-bars and alarm systems and still get robbed! Some people group together and hire security guards for their roads. I think everyone i know has, at some point in their life, experienced a robbery! And if they haven't, they definitely will!! Being robbed at gunpoint is quite normal and sometimes just for your tv. Btw we were robbed 3 times!

I'd say the safety is so-so.

I have double doors for my front door. Three heavy duty locks. For my back door, there is only one weak lock, but that's because my back door leads directly to the laundry room where there is a washer and a dryer. If they can manage to steal those.. well.. damn, kudos. It also has another door leading from the laundry-room to the kitchen. The door is a heavy metal door with two locks.

The back door is horribly UNSAFE. I, myself, have broken into my own home through the backdoor because I lost my house keys. It took 30 minutes, and required me to remove the window screen, put my leg between the metal bars in my window, and use my toes to twist the lock. LOL. >_<

All my windows are barred with steal tubes going horizontally. The gap between the bars are smaller than a human-sized head. The windows are very hard to open, so I haven't used most them for years. The only good window is the one for the bathroom.

I don't have a burglar alarm. I don't have guard dogs. :\
I wish I had a dog. :\

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Quote from Zandra

Sure that's no excuse, but I don't have much worth stealing, y'know? xD

But people can do much more than just steal your stuff 🙁

I know... But at least I have a baseball bat in my room? I'm just so lax because of where I live. If I hear of a robbery/home crime near me I'll probably start locking the door when I go out and fix my window. I don't expect anything to happen, I guess. I just hope nothing ever does happen. >.<

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I'm going to say no lol. I live in north Seattle Washington, over the last two years i think there has been like 200 robberies and like four murders. Anyway I'm a poor college student so just to have a roof over my head is a good thing anything after that is a blessing. All i have is a door lock and a wooden stick to keep the window from opening lol, yea anything can happen around here. Although this is no south Africa, damn that must suck.

" 9 years and 163 days later, 2% of my body cells are still in love with her"

Im going to say yeah, I believe it is.

Pretty much safe. >.>

It's safe. An armoured door+being on the 12th floor (and the nosy neighbours) make the flat pretty much thief-proof xD

the tigers have found me
and I do not care.

My apt is safe but my car outside is not =.= It was broken in once =.=

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If someone wanted to break in, it wouldn't be too hard. One of our doors doesn't latch properly (I've broken in that way before) and my parents never set the security system. But we do have a dog that sounds large and vicious and live in a neighborhood where "neighborhood watch" is taken very seriously. So, I guess we're probably a little higher than average (and that's just because my brothers and I usually turn the extra locks on top at night that do work).

I am a breath of insanity in a world of chaos.

Me: Performing Random Acts of Klutziness for over 30 years.