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This is Los Angeles. There's no place you can go in the city that's more than a minute away from a very dangerous part of town. Even in the heart of Beverly Hills, you're only 30 seconds away from Culver City or Ingelwood. The West Side beach front property is just a minute or two from South Central. Mulhullond and the Hollywood hills are just a step away from Korea town and North Hollywood.
The talk about community and togetherness and socialization is all fine, but there are people who like to steal things and hurt people. I see no problem with making it hard for those people to get to the people I care about most. I see no problem with my wife feeling safe walking through the streets of the neighborhood alone and pregnant. If that takes a wall and a gate and 500 armed guards with rabid dogs, shouldn't it be my right to pay for those things?
One of the reasons that so many of these gated communities are going up is because of the housing crunch. There are no homes for sale in the areas people want to live, so developpers are buying out whole blocks in less desirable areas, levelling the houses and building new ones. The only way to convince someone to buy a half million dollar house in Inglewood is to put a gate around the block.
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