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smart home security setups
Nowadays even if you can still have an alarm linked to the police, there is zero chance they'll come out. So a smart one allows you to check and handle it.
I think it depends where you live.
My folks have always one after a couple of burglaries back when I was younger so I thought they were pretty normal. But the area is a million miles now from where it was - needle exchange is long gone, rough pub is beyond gastro, etc. So not sure if it's still as necessary.
I might be naive, but generally you don't seem to have as many smackheads around. Most of the crime I hear about personally is mobile snatch and runs, usually on a scooter. I can't remember the last time I heard about an old school mugging, whereas it used to be pretty regular. Likewise car break-ins were a weekly occurance and I literally can't remember hearing about one for decades. In terms of burglaries the ones I do hear about now typically involve someone with off street parking and a nice car, or home invasions in high end more suburban areas. So yeah where you live(d) it's probably less use than it would have been in the 90s.
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Nowadays even if you can still have an alarm linked to the police, there is zero chance they'll come out. So a smart one allows you to check and handle it.
SimpliSafe has a link up with securicor, so it is them who call and then come out and check your place, obviously not as good as the police, but if you are out of the county better than nothing. The other negative is that will charge you £75 if they do come out.
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Likewise car break-ins were a weekly occurance and I literally can't remember hearing about one for decades
I guess it's very area dependent, these happen on a weekly basis near me. Together with the other wheeze of chopping catalytic converters out of cars parked on the street.
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I might be naive, but generally you don't seem to have as many smackheads around.
Because they're busy ringing my doorbell at 10pm with sob stories asking for money :/
You're right though, crime has dropped a lot pretty much everywhere. One of the reasons I asked the question in the first place.
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This question isn't aimed at anyone in particular but why is everyone splashing all this cash on smart home security setups? Are you all living in super high crime areas or something?
I've never felt the need in Clapton, and now we've sold our flat I can say that it's gentrification has been somewhat overstated. But the odd crack head ringing our doorbell and asking for money and the mardy druggie house just down the road don't worry me enough to order a Simplisafe or whatever...