Personally, I did not grow up in a gated community like David Guterson talks about. None of the houses looked the exact same, none of them were painted the same color, and none of them had security guards at the gate. However, there were a few 'developments' where the houses were the same model, but were only built that way to lower the cost for the companies who built them. I grew up on one of the main streets of my town, and I could go to and from my house as I pleased. I believe that setting regulations like they do in Green Valley, are outrageous and I'm really glad that I never had to deal with those.
Like in the communities that Guterson talks about, we did have a cerfew. Back at home, by 11pm during the summer, you had to be on your property. Althought most times they didn't exactly enforce this, it was supposed to be for the young kids of the community in order to keep them off the streets. This in my opinion was a fairly good idea, and was somewhat able to prevent minor crimes which could occur during the night.
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