do you close your curtains at night?

[Willmafrockfit]

in films, american at least, they never do

do people actually live like this?
curtains open all night?
how do you sleep?

Unfortunately, rural crime is on the increase round here. Burglars have their own vehicles and target farms, so there is less opportune burglaries and more targeted burglaries round here, which I would fine even more unsettling knowing that I have been watched.

Unless you are elevated it is naive to assume that no-one can see into an uncurtained lit room.

Bedroom always. Lounge almost always unless it's very warm and I've got the main windows open.

No. I live in the US and we neither watch each other nor give a shit about people watching us as they do in the UK.

Yes in the winter as I feel safer not so much so in the summer as I like to watch the bats.

Our houses are built much closer to each other in the UK. It gets cold in winter and curtains keep the heat in. Lastly, you must live in an area with a very low crime rate.

Indeed I do. As most people in the US do.

Yes. I have a huge problem with light first thing in the morning, especially in the summer. Waking up with the sun blaring in means I almost always will get a migraine. So I have curtains with blackout linings, blackout blind and fabric stuffed round the edge so there isn't much light at all.

Downstairs I close the curtains to keep the warmth in depending on time of year. I don't bother upstairs, I find it a bit claustrophobic and like at least one open window. Everyone else shuts their's .