I rarely lock the Tundra; it sits on the side of the house driveway. I don't even lock the house all that much. I have 2 cats that are always on the patrol, er ah I mean sleeping.
Lock car at night
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I lived in Fairfield, CT for many years - a really nice area on CT's "Gold Coast". It is unfortunately right next to Bridgeport, CT, the armpit of the Gold Coast. Every year, Fairfield police BEG Fairfield residents to please lock their vehicles, especially those parked on the road, because people would just walk down the street and lift door handles and they would inevitably find several open cars with laptops and all sorts of valuables. Year after year, they begged!
Back when I was a kid, we left the house unlocked all the time. We had an aunt who would come visit unexpectedly a few times a year, and she'd just let herself in if we weren't home. It was really weird to come home from, say, a bike ride while everyone else was away and come into the house to find my aunt there in the kitchen making herself some tea.
Always amazed me when folks would call to report an auto-breaking incident and then tell me the doors were unlocked 
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Relatives in a really nice area in another city experience car break-ins regularly, as do others in their upscale neighbourhood.
Many there have taken to leaving their cars unlocked, and removing all valuables at night instead. It's preferable to broken windows, jimmied doors, scratched paint, etc.
Many there have taken to leaving their cars unlocked, and removing all valuables at night instead. It's preferable to broken windows, jimmied doors, scratched paint, etc.
The quality of my city has dropped dramatically over the last 10 years; to the point that my wife and I crossed the border to Detroit for the first time post-COVID in 2023 and were astonished to find it in much better shape than on our side of the border. I never thought I'd see or say that in my lifetime.
The homeless drug addicts roaming, well, **everywhere** are in yards, alleys, vehicles constantly; but they do not tend to break anything to get there: They're light years from being professionals and are simply committing petty property crimes of opportunity. So we lock everything: house and vehicles certainly; and most people around here chain down everything else as well from lawn furniture to lights to flower pots. I run a Facebook group for my neighbourhood with ~1100 members and at least 5x/day someone is posting asking the rest of us to be on the lookout for their now-missing stuff.
The homeless drug addicts roaming, well, **everywhere** are in yards, alleys, vehicles constantly; but they do not tend to break anything to get there: They're light years from being professionals and are simply committing petty property crimes of opportunity. So we lock everything: house and vehicles certainly; and most people around here chain down everything else as well from lawn furniture to lights to flower pots. I run a Facebook group for my neighbourhood with ~1100 members and at least 5x/day someone is posting asking the rest of us to be on the lookout for their now-missing stuff.
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And way down south in my (lifetime) small town - it has as well …
What bothers me most is how trash is just tossed everywhere …
I’ll stop there …
Wouldn't that be their problem, not yours? They are the ones that wanted a dog.
Our trash is included with our taxes. Many people in other places pay for trash, and they choose the size of the container, like my mom. She gets the smallest.
So you can say ours is a buffet. It bugs me when I see 1200-2000 sq ft homes with 5+ 44 gal containers left out for collection. It is not possible for a house with such a footprint to create that much trash, 2x per week. I get that a town worker can’t be tasked with issuing summonses. But people should be embarrassed. My theory is this is commercial trash being processed by our town.
The other thing? When the town charges $50 for an official recycle bin? Some houses have 3. Hmmm
I'd complain to the HOA about having a whiny neighbor. How meta would that be?
