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| - This is not what you think it is. There's so much actively going on in this community and the residents just don't say a word. We lived here for one year and 5 months. Our street had trouble, rough parties whenever the adults left the teens home. Our first month there there was a Halloween party that was crazy. Broken car window glass in the street. The whole street was filled with cars from people that did not live within the community. They had multiple guest passes because residents let them in. Blacked out Suburbans dropping off young girls. Teens hanging out smoking on our wall. We had our windows open when I heard, "GUN"! The garage door went up and people are scrambling out from under the door, It was pretty loud, security was called because it got really ugly. Teens fist fighting, a young girl being chased down the street by a huge female bully. 6 months later this household moved out.
There was quite a handful of assaults that showed up on the crime sites.. Even an assault at the recreational pool where they wand you down before you go into the pool... That wasn't comforting, never had that our at previous gated pool community. There was a shooting at the back gate and it was on the news. I honestly don't understand how neighbors don't know what goes on.
Then there was also the murdered cashier at Lee's liquors. They caught the individuals and goal figure one of them used to be a resident in Links Lakes. It's a regular thing to see 3-4 cop cars and security trucks pulling into Links Lakes! We had to drive by it every day so it was noticeable in the day. That spoke volumes to me when the helicopter was flying over every night. Some nights they had the spot light shining in your back yard so you have to leave the lights on outside. I didn't even want to walk within the community because I didn't feel safe.
Packages stolen right off your front steps, people digging through your mailbox (made the news), kids being punks arguing with security. There's no respect in here. Everybody thinks so highly of themselves when actions speak louder than words. Speeders ripping tire down our street while you check the mail. Neighbors being frightened by m-80's being thrown out car windows at them.
Neighbors blare music in their garage with the door open (against the HOA rules). The brochure states supposedly a "tranquil" place to live. You get dirty looks being neighborly and waving to new neighbors. We bumped into our new neighbor at the store, she tail gated us all the way home in her Range Rover when the speed limit is 25! She pulls into her driveway and she sees it's us from the grocery store across the street. Stuck her nose in the air because she recognized we were the same people in front of her at the check out line.
I can't forget to mention the resident in Millbrook (recently built community). She voiced her concern about her neighbor running out in his birthday suit with a gun because his lady friend robbed him. So he chased her car down the street. You can't make this up when you read about it on the online community.
The month before we left the was a stolen car within the community and they took it for a joy ride right behind our street into a neighbors brick wall. The crimes that go on here are never spoken of. I find it hard to feel at home when you're looking over your shoulder to make sure you're not being targeted. Our next door neighbor's truck was broken into luckily it didn't have anything of value in it. Same neighbor felt the same way constantly looking over her shoulder because she was walking her dogs when some punks were following her and acting odd closely behind her. She stopped taking her afternoon walks.. Some houses have cameras pointed in the driveway which speaks for itself.. Who wants to live like that? Be observant and count how many homes have home Security cameras.
Such a shame what a beautiful place but so much trouble. Each day I had a new alert in my email. I had to turn off the alerts. By the time we moved, 90% of our neighbors moved away. The ones that moved in seem to be obnoxious pigs, leaving trash or emptying their car ashtray in the street. I can't count how many times I swept up a mess out of the road.
Some people are amazing neighbors!! We've met friendly, well dressed, classy folks here. I will miss the big smiles from across the street.. they moved too. It was time for us to get out when someone left a condom as a joke on our front door handle. It might have been a neighborhood kid.. Honestly I don't trust that it was a harmless prank. I think it was more than that with all the stories you read about being targeted today.
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