SECURITY here is very high...
 

I recently moved to a new town and security here in is very high:

• Multiple guards in every mall and parking lots (which are gated);
• Mobile money guards with shotguns and ammo belts;
• Gated communities everywhere, with multiple guards;
• Police travel in groups (with automatic rifles);
• Iron bars on all street-level windows, even on the ones inside the gated community;
• No cell phones, sunglasses or hats inside banks.
• To get a cell phone you Have to register the phone's number to your government issue ID.
• To rent an apartment you NEED a guarantor.
• To exit a free parking lot you need to get a ticket on the way in, then validate it at one of the shops before leaving and handing it to the gate operator.
• In the parking lots there are people helping you enter and exit parking spaces, and when it's raining they have a big umbrella. Not really security in function, but certainly a deterrent.
• To open a bank account you need ID (duh) + the printed invoice from phone, cable, gas, water, electric or Internet with your name and address on it (no, lease agreement isn't acceptable).

This is not a complaint. It's a series of observations.

Having said all that, I've not seen any sign of crime at all, and everyone tells me how quiet and safe this place is. I wonder if this security is the reason for the crime I've not seen, or if this is just a way to create jobs in a crushed economy.

Please comment.

sounds like a great system to kill crime and create jobs but also good for big brother, like most things it has its up and down sides.

where is this? china? russia? zimbabwe?

Even the candystripers got tazers.

You moved to a third world country ??

Where do you live? I assume no longer in Ontario?

Sounds like a prison...:winkwink:

Only the police carry automatic weapons, hand guns and spray - no tasers.
The guards that carry money to/from places have the shotguns.
The regular mall guards have radios and a tonfa (stick).

Nineteen Eighty-Four

in Canada?

edit: sorry i guess japan

Sounds like South Africa to me.


If it isn't there, then it exactly LIKE South Africa, in every way.



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Sounds a little bit like touristy parts in Mexico. Although in Vancouver they've had the no hats/shades/hoods rule in banks for over a year.

It's the city of Querétaro. Not a tourist spot. Very old city with a long history.

aside from the guns, sounds like any western country nowadays.