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Q: Entry to your housing complex. Is it secure?
Some places require id to get in. Others, the guard just swings the gate open.
How about where you live?
Yeah my place takes id at first until they know you if you just walking. Vehicles you have a card sort of like how a parking garage works, you put your card in and put your PIN number in. Visitors have to sign in and and the guard takes a pictures of their id and license plate. Only one way in and out, it’s on top of a hill with a wall around it. It’s quite safe. ... although if you really wanted to get in you could probably buy your way in with a few cigarettes lol
the gate on one side requires to swipe a card to enter and exit, but it's not even the main gate. Anyone can just walk through the main gate, so the other gate is pretty useless.
I miss having a front door that opens to the street.
Stiggs:
I guess it's all where you grow up and what you're used to, I just don't think I could relax with people outside walking past my windows and casually looking in, street noise etc. I like to have the front and back doors and all the windows open during summer, music playing, walking around shirtless wearing just a pair of boardshorts... it's hard to imagine doing that when your front door opens onto the street. I bet you'd have more of a community feel to the area though.
There is a security guard in my building's entrance. They don't let anyone but residents in without scanning their ID card. They've got the same machine the bank does to scan documents and they've got a desktop computer to keep track of who comes in and out next to the front door inside. Basically anyone can enter the front door and there are some couches in the same area the security guard is in, that's where visitors have to wait for residents to come pick them up after they registered their ID card. But no one can get any further without a resident card, there is a small gate similar to that in the subway stations.
ScotsAlan:
I have visited a similar place. The guards looked like swat team members minus their M16s. This was quite a big complex in Huangpu. Maybe about 15 buildings of 20 stories high. I suspect this level of security is more common in large complexes.
RandomGuy:
Actually my community isn't that big, there is two buildings of 40 floors with two big apartments per floor, the buildings are 30% empty I would say. It's more that this community is on the higher end of the spectrum, not your average place, not everyone can afford to live here, so security is a selling point I guess.
My place has quite a number of guards milling around. Do they do anything security related? Hard to tell. Far as I can see anyone and everyone walks in / drives in. There are no physical barriers at the entrance, unless a speed-bump counts.
