Do you close your home gates overnight / myLot

Australia

March 13, 2025 3:55pm CST

I've been surprised that so many homes here do not have a gate or leave them open overnight. Ever since we had the intruder last year, we keep the gates closed. The houses on either side don't have a gate! The house opposite has an automatic gate and security alarm and a couple of others don't close their gates. How about you?

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10 responses

Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (13333)

• Ireland

13 Mar

@pitstop I rarely even lock my front door, but don’t tell anybody that.

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Zitapatrick

@fracis22 (53)

• Lagos, Nigeria

13 Mar

Hahahaha we all heard

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Pitstop

@pitstop (14812)

• Australia

14 Mar

@fracis22 and now the whole wwworld knows!

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (184442)

• United States

14 Mar

The doors are always locked. We also have an alarm system.

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Pitstop

@pitstop (14812)

• Australia

14 Mar

Have you ever had the alarm system going off?

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (184442)

• United States

14h

@pitstop Just once; and it was a glitch.

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Kayla Tsukino

@kaylachan (76026)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

14 Mar

We don't have a gate, well we do to our fenced in back yard, but we keep it closed unless we are going through it.

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Pitstop

@pitstop (14812)

• Australia

14 Mar

Is there a wall in the front yard?

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Kayla Tsukino

@kaylachan (76026)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

14 Mar

@pitstop No. Some homes have them, but ours doesn't. Not unless you count our flower bed that's part of our front porch.

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@DaddyEvil (143345)

• United States

13 Mar

We don't have fences or gates around our house. We do keep lights on in the front and back yard to deter intruders, though.

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Pitstop

@pitstop (14812)

• Australia

14 Mar

Are they sensor lights or lights that always stay on.

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@DaddyEvil (143345)

• United States

14 Mar

@pitstop They always stay on. You can get past sensor lights if you move slow enough. I live in a group of housing with older folks around us and they are awake at different times during the night and check the yards. If they see something, they call the police.

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (112968)

• Marion, Ohio

13 Mar

We don't have any. The property is not fenced off

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Pitstop

@pitstop (14812)

• Australia

14 Mar

Are all the houses that way?

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Eva James

@wolfgirl569 (112968)

• Marion, Ohio

14 Mar

@pitstop Most are not and especially not across the driveway.

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (107649)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

13 Mar

The house policy in my home is to lock the front door overnight.

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Pitstop

@pitstop (14812)

• Australia

14 Mar

And the front gates or fence?

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (107649)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

14 Mar

@pitstop In my home we have no gates, just a wooden fence that separates the houses that does not have a lock on them.

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (83118)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

13 Mar

The yard surrounding the house is wide open no gates there,

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Pitstop

@pitstop (14812)

• Australia

14 Mar

Seems more common than I imagined.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (348059)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 Mar

It's never really applied to houses where we've lived. On our 18 acres we never closed the gate into the property. Half the time we didn't even lock the house if we just went to the shops and back.

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Pitstop

@pitstop (14812)

• Australia

14 Mar

Sounds like a safe place!!