Do You Leave Your Front Door Unlocked Regional Poll

[vixen1700]

A question came up about a scroat entering your house for sts and giggles.

Would he br able to enter your house due to it being unlocked.

Also is it a regional thing?

Options kept to a minimum, so if you're in the Midlands, Wales, Cornwall etc. please explain yourself.

[Panamax]

This needs a supplementary question that's the same for each region,

"Do you insure your home contents against theft?"

[cheesejunkie]

Lol, my first thought was at least you're not asking for addresses.

I've been the victim of a creeper burglary where they took the car.

Door always locked.

[BoRED S2upid]

This is going to be a huge difference between yes I live in a tiny village to st no I live near London no chance in hell.

[vixen1700]

BoRED S2upid said:

This is going to be a huge difference between yes I live in a tiny village to st no I live near London no chance in hell.

You may be surprised, hence the question/poll.

[GroundEffect]

I live 30 miles from central London. My door is unlocked other than overnight.

[Puggit]

Front door, always locked.

Side door down drive, mostly unlocked. We have a rabidly territorial dog and CCTV on the drive

South East.

[Sporky]

I live in a very low crime area in Hampshire, and I lock everything.

[TheJimi]

BoRED S2upid said:

This is going to be a huge difference between yes I live in a tiny village to st no I live near London no chance in hell.

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

Yet, I live in a quiet, semi-rural village in the west of Scotland, and I always make sure I lock my door. Fairly affluent village, and an extremely safe place, but I just can't bring myself to leave the door unlocked.

Admittedly, if we had the same poll in the village here, "Yes - unlocked" would almost certainly win.

Edited by TheJimi on Wednesday 24th May 17:10

[vixen1700]

GroundEffect said:

I live 30 miles from central London. My door is unlocked other than overnight.

East London, and the same.

[Frankthered]

BoRED S2upid said:

This is going to be a huge difference between yes I live in a tiny village to st no I live near London no chance in hell.

This!

We live in a large town in the south, quite near the town centre. Having heard somebody try the front door while we were sitting in the living room, no, we do not leave it unlocked!!

[Killer2005]

Yorkshire here. I could leave it unlocked but the wife likes it locked. There are times where we've gone out and it's been left unlocked too.

However, there was a double murder from last weekend was 5 minutes away from our house so might be worth keeping locked.

[Iamnotkloot]

Manchester here (but a quiet bit), always leave unlocked if we're in. But then lock it at night

[bloomen]

A small Somerset town/ village.

Yes at night. No in day. Yes when I go out.

It only takes one to pop one's rural idyll.

If I were on a street in a town then the door would be rigged with shotguns, boiling oil, pits full of piranhas etc.

[Monkeylegend]

vixen1700 said:

BoRED S2upid said:

This is going to be a huge difference between yes I live in a tiny village to st no I live near London no chance in hell.

You may be surprised, hence the question/poll.

I live in a tiny little village and have often been known to go on a dog walk leaving the back door/patio doors unlocked, and even open on occasions on a nice day. Even if we do lock it we leave the keys just on the floor inside the cat flap.

I rented an apartment in an old Vicarage in a smallish village whilst looking for my current house many years ago and the guy who lived there worked in London, leaving home early, getting home late.

He always left his back door open saying an open door acted as a deterrent and to my knowledge he never had any issues in the time I lived there.

[2xChevrons]

Killer2005 said:

Yorkshire here. I could leave it unlocked but the wife likes it locked. There are times where we've gone out and it's been left unlocked too.

However, there was a double murder from last weekend was 5 minutes away from our house so might be worth keeping locked.

Same for here in a city in the East Midlands. I grew up in the country and the door was always unlocked when we were awake, was often unlocked at night and was only certainly locked when we were all out. That's the 'baseline' I have always maintained as normal.

I would find it much more convenient to leave the door unlocked during the day and evening when I'm at home (this is in a terraced house with a small front garden between the door and the pavement/street) but my partner likes having the door locked so it is. There have been times when we've accidentally left it unlocked when we've just popped out to the shops or something. I once (through sheer distraction) left my car unlocked on the street outside the house and then didn't use it for a good ten days or so. So while bikes, halloween decorations and anything else quickly portable will disappear almost instantly, actual trespass and burglary seems very rare round here.

[juice]

Front door always locked because no-one ever uses it. Everyone uses the back door (we're out in the country in the SW). Back door more likely than not fully open (to let the dogs come and go) and its only ever locked at bedtime.

[Magnum 475]

Quiet village, "up north". Door is locked, always.

It used to be a quiet village, but two new housing developments including "Social Housing" have been built nearby. Most of the residents are great, but one or two seem to be of the weed-smoking, non-working variety. No actual problems in the village yet, but I suspect it may be a matter of time. I'm just getting quotes for a large galvanised steel gate system for the end of our driveway, which has never had gates installed before.

[QuickQuack]

Small village in the Midlands. Unlocked and on the latch if we're in, latch off overnight, locked and the alarm on if we're out. Cars frequently unlocked overnight. Kids have left not only the door unlocked and on the latch, but also physically wide open when leaving the house on multiple occasions, and on one occasion, unlocked, on the latch, wide open with a note saying they were going out...

[V8covin]

Where's the cut off point for north and south ?