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Is this the 101 reasons to move to the Triangle thread? Perhaps it is the which neighborhood will appreciate the most in the next ten years thread? If not perhaps it is the familiar transplant wants to know if people in the Triangle are as warm and inviting as they hear. If not that is it the Cary was picked by Money and Forbes as being one of the top small cities in the country to live in?
Is this the 101 reasons to move to the Triangle thread? Perhaps it is the which neighborhood will appreciate the most in the next ten years thread? If not perhaps it is the familiar transplant wants to know if people in the Triangle are as warm and inviting as they hear. If not that is it the Cary was picked by Money and Forbes as being one of the top small cities in the country to live in?
All of which is seemingly attractive to fake solicitors and those who steal from your vehicle or garage while you sleep.
This is so sad! I can't imagine having to worry about people coming to my door. I've dealt with solicitors in the past and I've handled them all the same: "Thank you, but I'm not interested". That is typically enough for someone to get the message. I don't let them in, but will either stand within a small crack in the door, or step outside. If I don't feel like opening the door at all, I'll yell out an upstairs window (gives the impression I'm busy doing something right now). But 9 times out of 10 I'll open the door. If I get a creepy vibe, I'll make up an excuse and close the door. I haven't ever had anyone try to push past me. My dd is not allowed to open the door, no matter what, if I'm not at home. I don't care if they saw her go in the house, she's to get the phone and call 911 if the person walks around to the back and try to look in the windows. I do that because some teenagers aren't wrapped too tight at times and mine seems a little unwrapped a lot of the time.
Once you open the door to talk, they can easily push their way in.
You are not pushing me aside and getting into my house...I can assure you.
My wife may be a different story, she's smart enough to know when to open and when to not. She did not let the elders of our new church in the house when they came to visit. Both men commented on how it was a smart thing.
But I hate to break it to you, if they want in...they get in.
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Originally Posted by 2BZee2Pee
Reading this thread is sad. I can't imagine living in fear where I can't answer a knock at my door. How do you people stand it?
You will see in an earlier post I opened the door to an early morning rape and knife attack with a woman screaming bloody murder at my door----literally. If she had of knocked on most on heres doors she would be dead now.
Either move where you feel safe or grow a set but don't accept being a sheep----be the sheep dog.
Sad indeed. You had a crazy situation for sure, but I still agree with your end premise.
So ah, is this what the Southeast has been reduced too? I'm sitting here in Manchester, CT with unlocked doors at all times, no security system - and no need, and only an ipod stolen from an unlocked car in 7 years by a local kid.
Maybe I should stay North regardless of politics and taxes.
You are not pushing me aside and getting into my house...I can assure you.
My wife may be a different story, she's smart enough to know when to open and when to not. She did not let the elders of our new church in the house when they came to visit. Both men commented on how it was a smart thing.
But I hate to break it to you, if they want in...they get in.
Sad indeed. You had a crazy situation for sure, but I still agree with your end premise.
So ah, is this what the Southeast has been reduced too? I'm sitting here in Manchester, CT with unlocked doors at all times, no security system - and no need, and only an ipod stolen from an unlocked car in 7 years by a local kid.
Maybe I should stay North regardless of politics and taxes.
Just got a fake solicitor at my house today. Young woman claiming to be from around the corner saying she was a student at UNC who was part of a group that had earned broadcasting internships with the BBC and she needed to raise money for the trip. She claimed to have come up with the idea of selling magazine subscriptions, but since no one here really reads magazines anymore, her idea was to sell magazine subscriptions that would be sent to military personnel overseas.
Clever...not only do you go for the "support our troops" angle, but you make it so that the dupes think the subscriptions are going elsewhere and won't even know that the whole thing was a scam and that there aren't any magazines.
Just got a fake solicitor at my house today. Young woman claiming to be from around the corner saying she was a student at UNC who was part of a group that had earned broadcasting internships with the BBC and she needed to raise money for the trip. She claimed to have come up with the idea of selling magazine subscriptions, but since no one here really reads magazines anymore, her idea was to sell magazine subscriptions that would be sent to military personnel overseas.
Clever...not only do you go for the "support our troops" angle, but you make it so that the dupes think the subscriptions are going elsewhere and won't even know that the whole thing was a scam and that there aren't any magazines.
That's a smart thief. Maybe she really goes to UNC.
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