Right now in my area we are still a High Trust community. I can leave my doors unlocked and my vehicles unsecured with very little chance of theft. Maybe a month or two. But eventually it will happen. The crime is gradually spilling out of the BLUE areas. I’ve witnessed this personally. My own small county of 14000 is being preyed upon by looters and parasites from the metros. Best to adopt a Low Trust stance early. We have lost $2500 worth of merchandise recently. With little hope of recouping our losses because our legal system was intended for a “moral and just people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.” No matter if .gov wants to admit it or not, we are entering into a period of lawlessness with no means to protect our interests because of a faulty government.

Which brings into play my objections to the fact we are getting so many people coming across our Border when a good many of them are dangerous. I find this influx of illegal immigrants totally unacceptable. I find it laughable the people who stole this Presidential election are suffering even more than I am. What goes around comes around. N

A couple of years ago during a bright and sunny afternoon, I was watching something on TV when the doorbell rang.
I was slow getting up due to a knee injury. Door bell rang again. "Give me a minute!"
Doorbell rang again. "I'm coming!"
Doorbell rang again. I wondered whoever my visitor was had any ears.
When I opened the door, I saw two muscular bigger than me young black teens running away like hell down my driveway.
Evidently, they did not have a car. At the end of the driveway they turned and ran like hell up the street.
They were obviously up to no good. Wonder what spooked them. My slowness? It says "Neighborhood Watch" on a front window, but they should have seen that as they came to ring my doorbell.
Anyway, should anyone kick in my front door where I watch TV, I'll be showing them a gun.
You know, for show and tell.
Should I be expecting a couple of illegals next?

I live in a similar environment -- however, I am also eight miles from the border with Mexico. Things could get interesting over the next several days.

My little city has always had problem areas, but now those problems are inching their way across the entire area. Drugs are the biggie, but assault and murder follow right behind. Burglary is not yet a problem--too many property owners willing to defend themselves, but car jacking is becoming a plague.

Would not recommend that in a big city, the squatter issue is ignored by judicial. We live in a rural sub, 1 1/2 acres, 200 trees, and a very protective dog. I have left the keys in the door when I have come home with items in my hand. We do have a prof. security system, with panic button, but the dog is quicker. With migrants from all ovr of all walks, squatter from US, we have to be vigilent, Biden wiaitng to take property rights away. Also have a rifle beside the pool talbe, which made the sheriff very uneasy when he was out for a visit off the job. Life is tough, you have to stay tougher.

I have left the keys to my pickup - an old beater - in the ignition for the last 15 years. There have been occasions where neighbors have needed to borrow it - and it always came back with a full gas tank!! Small town... Am just real concerned about what we are going to be going to go through with this nonsense at the border. Agree with Allosaur..... the folks around here know what they can borrow - and if there were another type trying to take something..... don't come to the door......

I do that sort of stuff all the time. It's a good reminder that it's only a small sector of the population that we need to be worried about.

The rest? They'd take my keys, set them inside the door and lock from the outside, if at all possible.

ETA: FOUR times, in the DFW area, I have left my purse (with actual CASH, credit cards, and phone) open in a cart in the parking lot. I won't bother telling you the amount of anguish I experienced, once I realized that I had left my world open to every passer-by.

In each instance, my entire cache of goods was returned to me, unmolested, including aforementioned cash, credit cards, and phone. This is in the DALLAS area! (Also, once in Tulsa. The returnee was actually in my same online app, and we corresponded after the fact - I was thrilled to thank her for her trouble.)

Editing again to add: people are good. Really good. Except for the one or two who aren't . But we are directed to pay attention to the "aren't," while ignoring the good, and I believe this is to our detriment.