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Do Gated Communities Threaten Society?
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It's a little late to be asking that question, don't you think?
Back when I did carpet in the 80's and early 90's, gated community people were unreasonable souls, and a blight on society. The communities should have been nuked before their cancer spread to the rest of society, and gave us the 2000's.
Why anyone would ever want to live in one, is far beyond me. Have to ask the Asshole at the gate, ,making $7.00 an hour, if you can pretty please put Carpet in your $750,000.00 house, you're either paying or paid for. I never got it, and always felt like I were dealing with inferior intellect in every gated community I ever worked in.
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Gated communities are a symptom of the same impulse that created the original ghettos.
You want to be around people like yourself.
Ghettos were created by deliberate efforts of Jews. Jewish leaders wanted their people bunched up not spread out, so they could bond and form their own community.
Is a Gated Community any different than ChinaTown?
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Vicente says
My experience in south Florida is that gated communities are the result of fear of crime from the poor neighborhoods adjacent to rich ones. The income level rises orders of magnitude when you cross some streets in Florida.
I don't see people in any community in Florida, gated or not, bounding with neighbors. So it doesn't seem to be similar to the Jewish experience you described. People in Florida don't want to know their neighbors. They want to live in isolation and not be disturbed. The gates are there to make the residents feel more secure.