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UK Man it is a matter of chances. Chances of fire, very little, chances of robbery, very high!
I can understand it in parts of Buenos Aires but was shocked to see it here....all seems a bit OTT. My wife couldn't believe it when she didn't see steel bars on any house windows in the UK.
The first thing that caught my attention when I came to this town was the amount of houses that had fixed steel barred windows and gates with spiked tops. It didn't exactly give me a good first impression of the place. My immediate thought was how the hell do you escape if there's a fire and you can't make it to the door. It wouldn't be allowed in the UK.
I definitely feel safer with bars on our windows because the buggers will try anything to get in.
Besides, we have three exits to escape in case of fire.
The first thing that caught my attention when I came to this town was the amount of houses that had fixed steel barred windows and gates with spiked tops. It didn't exactly give me a good first impression of the place. My immediate thought was how the hell do you escape if there's a fire and you can't make it to the door. It wouldn't be allowed in the UK.
Many urban apartments that I knew in New York and Massachusetts have windows with bars on lower floors. But the regulations insist there is a way to escape. The ones I know have a button on the inside to open the bars which are a hindged like a door. At least one window per room. The standard fire escape ladders on the upper floors too, that is the commonly noticed in the movies. I have not noticed the same type of safety for fire escapes here. Also lacking the simple smoke alarms awareness to install several in each apartment.
My reaction is the same. If a house has bars on the windows, I also wonder if this is simply a preventive measure, or if there has been a problem with break-ins in the past.
