[PeppyGPhiB]

Car prowling doesn't scare me...that happens everywhere, even in nice safe places like Redmond. Really there's no reason for you to be scared in Redmond, so you can probably chill out a little. There's no need to be in a gated community to feel safe - we've managed to do without them here all this time. Besides, don't you feel a little bit like a bird in a cage with the gate? I've always found gated communities (and yards with fences or walls in the front yard, too) to look very cold and standoffish...what's the point of being in a larger suburban community if you want no part of it?

Home burglaries are a different story. It takes either a gutsy or stupid person to break into a home...especially when someone might be there. And I don't want to see either one of those kind of people in my home uninvited.