re: Do you keep your doors locked while you’re at home?

Yes. We live a mile from MSU.

My dad has a place near Springhill Park. I'd move there tomorrow if my job prospects were a little better in that area.

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Doors are always locked. I lock the door even when I let the dog out.

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Damn. We live in the middle of BR and my French doors are almost always unlocked during the day. Hell they are usually open when it's not the middle of the summer. We have neighborhood kids in and out most of the time.

The Springhill area is tucked under the Bridger Mountains. Great part of the Bozeman area.

Winter was 9 months long this year. Had 3 feet of snow in our yard from December until April. Snowed on June 18.

I’m done with winter. Although it did hit 85 yesterday. Warmest day of the year.

This debate is sounding a lot like the logic people use when opting not to have flood insurance in Louisiana.

"Why would I have flood insurance? I've never flooded before..."

And lots of people assuming they'll never be on the shitter when trouble comes calling. Everyone gonna be like Rambo whenever the time requires.

And this isn't limited to burglaries... Even if you live in a safe suburban neighborhood, there are kids that'll wander into your house either because they're dumb, they want to steal your kids bike, or they are doing a prank, whatever. I was at my folks house one day chatting, then the front door randomly opens and two local kids saw us, got spooked and ran off. Maybe they went to the wrong house, or maybe they were looking to vandalize something. Who knows. Easily solved by locking the doors though

Well I don’t have flood insurance either so.......

Always locked. It only takes one drug-crazed zombie to tear up your life.

If you are worried about constant harm, I’d recommend you move.
I don’t even lock my door at night.

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No. I live in Mandeville. Not necessary

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Mandeville poster here a few years ago told story of how he was sleeping on the couch one night, and that was unusual for him, when middle of the night his unlocked back door opens and an intruder gets about halfway in when he startled awake and yells WTF! and the intruder runs.

Had he not been on the couch that night, intruders would have been in the home.

Like others said, it never happens until it happens.

Our doors are locked at all times.

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I prefer not to. My wife and Her family think they should be locked at all times. I think they some scary bitches

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same here... granted i'm from a small town where most people knew everyone, for the most part, and she's from the Westbank, so i'm sure it's just a case of growing up in differing scenarios, but it just seems a little over the top, IMO...