Anyone want to check out my wedding website?

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[QUOTE]FTR I was picturing a gated community like the big fancy mansions in Florida or something.  I live in NYC so if you have an elevator and a door man, it's kinda like "ohhh you fancy, huh?"  Gated communities, in my mind, exist in fancy places.  
Posted by yaga13[/QUOTE]

That's why I had dolla bills flying! Of course it's fancy! ;)

When we lived in Arkansas last year it was not fancy. And the gates were more of like, oh hey there's a gang bang going on over there on the sidewalk, so we'll lock you in for your protection.

adamar15

I'm glad I went back to read before making a smart ass comment about the .22.  

StephBeanWed61502

Eagles I'm jealous you have a pit.  My ex had one, and I kind of wanted to steal her when we broke up, but apparently no landlord anywhere in the northeast will allow you to have one.  (I'm aware that's hyperbole, but it's really really hard to find places that allow pitties, and I wasn't about to move mid-law school just to deprive my ex of his dog, even though he was an epic douchecanoe and didn't deserve her AT.  ALL.)

mkrupar

Our apartment in Williamsburg was gated. It had an arm, then a wrought iron gate that opened. I don't know why the kept the arm because it was broken off more often than not.

musicalsunlight

The closest that I can even think of to a gated community around here doesn't even ever actually close the gate. There is a little guard house but I've never seen people in it. It is the entrance to a freakin' huge rich community too. Oh well.

kellyjellybelly

There are quite a few crazy gated communities around here.  There are some very wealthy suburbs in my vicinity. 

Anyone hobo can jump off the freight train line that runs right behind my house and come a knockin' at my door, however.  Good thing I have an attack dog.

mica178

H didn't want to live in a gated community.  We're not fancy like that.

seesawgirl

Our community is what I'd call mid scale.  The parking lot has a guardshack at the entrance and exit, and you have to have an aparment ID to get in, or have prior authorization from a tenant. There's a gate all the way around, and then the individual buildings need a passcode to get into. To be honest, its more of a headache than anything else. If I go for a run and forget my apartment ID and the rent-a-cop doesn't know me personally, they have to call the management company, and verify that I live there. 

On the upside, I can have pets, they have laminate floors, we don't have issues with bugs, and its...really not that expensive. I pay 5 dollars more a month for my 2 bedroom here, than I did for my shitty 3 bedroom a couple of years ago. 

StephanieM22

Seesaw that sucks my community gave everyone who owns there a decal for their window.  If I forget my gate clicker the guard will just look for the sticker on my windshield. They all know me anyway so nbd. I just hate that my community is 60% old people but oh well its Florida. Me and FI are looking to relocate in a few years anyway. 

divinemsbee

I live in a gated townhouse community and have a clicker, we are livin' it up fancy style. Of course we live right by the gate and it's broken most weekends because people are lazy and don't want to let their guests out and they jimmy it open. Then I get the Mormons coming by every Saturday morning. 

I will say that I have shopped at SA, but don't anymore because I find their politics extremely hateful. But I do shop thrift and take hand-me-downs. Not of soft goods (pillows, upholstered anything, blankets) that I don't know where they've been stored, though. One word: bedbugs. I used to not think about it, I actually had the most awesome couch in college (green velvet fifties style, would love to have another one) that I found beside a dumpster, but with the surge of bedbug plagues I hear about, I won't be doing that unless I can somehow bug bomb it to death. 

melb2013

This was the most interesting thread I've read in a long time. Love how it became a conversation about gated communities.  I'll contribute- there aren't too many gated communities around here.  The only ones I can think of are these pretty crappy apartments.  NH is fairly safe, so even the rich folks don't have gates.  We do have stone fences (apparently other parts of the country don't have these?) like from the Robert Frost poem!