I honestly do not understand why anyone would not keep their doors locked in this manner at all times
In the five years we've lived at our house, our 4 bikes have been parked outside the house, under the steps.
They haven't been tampered with, let alone stolen. And we're out at work and school all through the week. 5, nearly 6 years like this.
This affects our mindset, irrational or not.
We don't lock the door when in, because we don't feel like we need to. There is no fear about what might happen - again, irrational or not.
Perhaps if we heard there had been some break-ins or robberies in the area, we might do things differently. We almost certainly would.
But there haven't been. So we live like we do. We're not in the UK, for what it's worth.
It was the same growing up. People didn't lock their door when home. It's just not something I feel like I need to do.
I appreciate this is probably hard to get your head around, if you don't live like this, but it doesn't seem rational to act in an almost paranoid fashion about something, when my 40 years of lived experience tells me I don't need to.
Well, actually 30 years lived experience. I was much more cautious when I lived in the UK.
Friends would lock their bikes inside a locked shed (so two barriers), and still their bikes would get stolen.
And I agree that if you feel so unsafe that you need the house locked all the time, you would never spend any time outside in the garden.