Safety in the Gated Communities

If you want to live in a gated community buy a condo in Florida

speaking to gated communities , we too looked at living with the national population in belize and decided that there were too many issues with expat way of life and expectations.  We investigated the various expat exclusive developments and chose one at Progresso Heights because of the following ;
1.  gated with security guards
2.  water,power,telephone already installed
3.  general infrastructure already in place
4.  swimming pool , club house already built
5.  no push from develôper to start building right away
6.  15km from corozal town and 30km from chetumal mexico
7.  40 percent canadians , 40 percent americans , 20 percent other nationalities
8.  75 percent of canadians are from alberta in this development
Check out their web site at progressoheights.com

if you want to live with Canadians move to Canada,if you want to live with Americans move to America!!

I appreciate your point of view .............. who are you and where do you come from to have such a sweet view of life.

Don, I don't think gated Communities are any safer than living in town or out in the Country.  Some People just like where there located and that why they move into them. If your on water its hard to safe guard anything.  Now Not everyone who lives in them are robbed. It is a good ideal to have some kind of Protectin on your Buildings. (Burglar Bars, or Roll down Shutters) I have friends who live in four different gated Communities here in the Corozal dist. for myself I live in a Belzian Neighborhood and like it just fine.  After all it is Belize.

I have to agree.  I live in San Ignacio in the most Belizean neighborhood you can find, and I love it!  I've had no problem w/ theft, but my property has a gate surrounding it (altho it could be jumped) and bars on the windows (as most houses in Belize do).  I lock up and if I wanted, could get a dog.  I used to live in Oakland, CA, and my neighbors were getting broken into all the time - not so here.

I'm not sure why you'd come to Belize and choose to live in a gated community, but to each their own I suppose. I'd recommend trying both (renting first) and seeing which you prefer.

Sharon