Moving in with strangers?? a safe move?

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<p>Mandatory on-campus housing for first year students. I was also new to the area so I wanted as much information as I could about local crime conditions and street gangs. I ended up buying a wardrobe from Wal-Mart and grew out a beard to blend in. </p>

<p>I see that the OP will have a room. When I was in that situation I got a wireless alarm installed on the door and a door brace that can withstand 1775 Lbs of force.</p>

<p>I also got a fire escape rope ladder rated at 1000 Lbs in case someone tried to attack the apartment. The ladder was intended for a last resort escape through the window.</p>

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<p>^ Lol. </p>

<p>You should be a writer. Plenty of interesting spy stories could come out of your brain.</p>

<p>Or you could be fine to stir up conspiracy plots on the interwebz.</p>

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<p>For less than $1200 you too can order a decent wireless alarm, a barking dog alarm, a door brace rated at 1700lbs, a 50 foot fire escape rope ladder rated at 1000lbs, a motion detecting camera, and a wired/wireless surveillance detector jammer. With enough money left over to spray paint your equipment red and black.</p>

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<p>As I said :)</p>

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What was the address? That’s somewhere I want to consider going when the zombies attack.</p>

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<p>it really depends tho, just because you don’t really know what they’re like. but you could end up liking them and becoming good friends. but it seems 50/50 to me if you end up becoming friends or not. it’s just that all the experiences i’ve had living with strangers turned out disastrous. because we didn’t mesh, didn’t have anything in common, had different habits, etc. so i usually stick with living with people i know well. i mean unless you’re like a freshman or transfer that was assigned to live with one that would be ok. you should also look them up on fb beforehand to see what they’re like.</p>

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<p>Considering insurance and the fact that my laptop is always on me when I’m not in the dorm, if someone broke in and stole everything in my room I wouldn’t have to spend $1200.</p>

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<p>You don’t have to be friends with the people you live with. You just have to peacefully coexist.</p>

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<p>You have the wrong mindset about the criminal mind. Your mindset could get you or your loved ones killed at the worst. Could do irreversible damage to your professional career at the least. </p>

<p>Not every criminal is after your possessions. There are psychotic people out there who could be after your life. Just looking at them the wrong way, one-upping them during a presentation, or not moving out of there way on the sidewalk could be all that is required to set them off. When you meet these people, they might not want to attack you that instant, but they will remember you, find out where you live, and trust me…those people are not after your laptop or bed frame. They just want to see you burn. </p>

<p>The purpose of the brace and escape ladder are not to protect your possessions, it is to buy you time to escape in case you find yourself dealing with one of these psychotic murderers. </p>

<p>Some of them are driven by ideology, they think they are “alpha”. Others are just crazy nuts. In some places, the law-abiding populace is disarmed. In this case, you’ll have to escape until you have an advantage, either to get defense where it is allowed, or to escape and live another day to call the police. </p>

<p>The protection I described only protects you against petty criminals. </p>

<p>The truth is, using violent force is not “alpha”. Alpha would be using your power and influence to get someone to do it for you, and remain completely unconnected to the crime. Plausible deniability. An example of this is our (The United States) covert political intervention in the 1964 Chilean election.</p>

<p>Or our monopoly on deciding when democracy is just and when it is not. Our international interests supercede any people’s rights to a fair and free election, especially if the predicted winner is against us. That is REAL power. Being too big to fail.</p>

<p>In the business arena, convincing the world that you need a bailout and defrauding billions of people and getting away with it, that is Alpha.</p>

<p>Going into a gas station to do an armed robbery or stabbing someone harassing you is not Alpha. Alpha would be opening your own chain of gas stations and petroleum refining rigs and forcing the other gas stations out of business through fraudalent business practices, and destroying the credibility of the guy harassing you.</p>

<p>That is Alpha. Convincing the rest of the world or the law that your use of force, violence, and terrorist tactics are justified and correct.</p>