As some of you may have "heard" on facebook we got robbed the other week.
Our neighbor said this is the 4th time this house has been robbed, a nice little tidbit that would have had us more diligent.
The house does have an alarm which we hadn't been using. It turns out that most houses in ireland have alarms .I would say over 80% of the Irish houses have alarms for sure. This is start contrast to the US where alarms are a rarity . The alarm systems are usually sound only.
According to the garda even with the noise as a deterrent the criminals may still go on just due to these incidental alarms making people not care.
as to the dichotomy
The irish may lock the door during the day at all times, but they still feel comfortable letting their kids walk into town. We have seen various neighbours letting their kids walk into town:
family 1- 2 girls (10)
family 2- boy 7, girl 10
Not uncommon to see young kids unsupervised hanging around the town.
so they may not feel their house is safe but they trust the people
Rob
