Setha Low writes this essay to show why people move to gated communities. She takes a gated community in Queens and San Antonio and interviews people in those communities. She uses these two because they are very different from each other. Some of the differences are population size and density, history of the gated community development, scale and design of the gated communities, legal and government structure, crime rates for the region, and cultural norms and behaviors. Many people move to gated communities because they feel it is safer. One third of all new homes built in America are in gated communities. In New York, nine out of ten of the people Low interviewed mentioned that crime was a reason they moved to the gated community. Nine of the interviewees in San Antonio said crime was a reason. Many of the moms in San Antonio moved for their children.
In New York, most of people moved to the gated community because of the deteriorating communities they had lived in and the increase of crime. In San Antonio it is similar, but more people were afraid of illegal immigrants and kidnapping.
I thought this was a very interesting article. I enjoyed learning about reasons why people move to gated communities.
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