All my home windows are covered by shutters or curtains, in daylight no one can see inside.
At night no one can see inside.
Would fucking lose my mind. Sounds claustrophobic, with the added grimness of turning one's house into a funeral parlor. Also, on what planet is the refractive index of glass such that pedestrians can see into the interior of a house during daylight??
At night, I don't care if someone passes the kitchen and sees me making dinner. What do you think happens? Dear God, that man is rinsing a saucepan! Oh sweet Jesus now he's refilling a kettle! The depravity!
And then I'm in the living room and all those voyeurs are rapt as I quietly turn the pages of a paperback or converse with my sigboth. The violation!
Not voyeurs, think violent home invaders...and non-violent home invading robbers, until cornered then they become violent.
In daylight, the 'crim-safe' black metal gauze 'flyscreens' allow the [internal]shutters to be open to allow viewing of outside and light to enter. All anyone outside sees is black.
Sheer curtains in daylight, heavy curtains after dark.
You never know who's watching, waiting, planning to do evil.
Serial killer BTK came calling in daylight hours.
Very personable, a pastor. Sweet talked his way to torture and murder...worst depravity some had every 'seen'.
One lady was home alone, playing the piano...sadly she became a victim.
'Always wear a gun ready to fire at a moment's notice'.
'Never open the door to strangers'.
"Never go outside to disturbances, a pilot did that, was bashed and never flew again.'
'Never get out of the car', in road rages.
"Never go running alone, especially if you're a woman, young or older...bad people are lurking, another woman in bambuworld has gone missing, 50+, went running alone one Sunday morning at 7am recently, in a forest.
It's all good advice.
When I lived in Malibu we lived in a gated community, one had to go through two security gates to get to our house, and there were cameras at the gates, plus we had spot lights with motion detectors on the property, and we had 2 big dogs, etc. Plus, Malibu is safe with very low crime. And we had the Daughter of a Chinese General living with us, that is how safe it was.
Some places are safe. Malibu is safe. Rome, Italy, is safe. I bet Greece is safe. And I bet Australia is very safe. Cannes, France, is safe. Monte Carlo is safe. Some places are safe.
We did not even bother to lock the doors of our home in Malibu. The owner lived there for 20 years and she never locked the doors.
But in Saint Louis, Missouri, you need a gun, you need to lock your doors, etc, some places are bad. I choose not to live in the bad areas. I would never live in Detroit, or Chicago, or New York, nor in Compton, Watts, Inglewood, etc, there are some places I would never live.
Battle Mountain, Nevada, is safe, but they all own guns, they are all cowboys with guns in Nevada. The cowboys keep Nevada safe.
Anaheim is nice, I have lived here for over 20 years and I have never had a problem here in Anaheim. It is not as nice as Malibu, but it is better than Compton.
The Antelope Valley was nice back when we were building the Space Shuttles, etc, it was nice like Palm Springs, but then it turned into a ghetto as the people on welfare from Los Angeles all moved to the Antelope Valley. I would not live in the Antelope Valley now, I would rather live in Anaheim, but my Mother loves the Antelope Valley and she will spend the rest of her life there, and her husband owns a gun, plus they have a home alarm system and cameras, etc.
Anyhow, it is best to try to live in a safe area where one does not need to be afraid and on guard all of the time. If you can have nice Christian neighbors, and live in a good neighborhood, then that is preferable to living in fear. I would never live in a high crime area.
Though if one becomes rich and famous like Steven Spielberg then one needs body guards, and all of that, you need security if you become rich and famous. And they have 24 hour security at the Empire West Condominiums, etc, the stars all have security guards. And Latigo Beach in Malibu has 24 hour security, etc.
Salute,
Tony V.
