We have a lot of stuck ups and primadonnas here in the Keys. 
We keep all the crime up in Miami.
We keep all the crime up in Miami.
Bonaire Crime - Our experience - Looking for input to share
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It is just not that difficult to stay in a place that provides reasonable security and not leave anything in your vehicle that you are not willing to lose. We have about ten trips with no problems.
driftwood
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First, there are a lot of cheap dive lights like the UK C4 on Ebay that make fine water tight cases for a cell phone. Just remove the reflector and stick a 2lb weight wrapped in some paper towels inside.
Second, the problem I have with Bonaire is just the island attitude of accept the reality and go with the flow. Having grown up in Texas, it just doesn't sit well with me when the reality needs changing. Never could happily live in a place like that.
Second, the problem I have with Bonaire is just the island attitude of accept the reality and go with the flow. Having grown up in Texas, it just doesn't sit well with me when the reality needs changing. Never could happily live in a place like that.
lmorin
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I now live in Hanover, NH, home of Dartmouth College. When I was a kid, we never locked houses and keys were left in ignitions. In my 20's, I once flew home for a few days and after I departed, my mother returned from taking me to the airport to find a burglar in her house. Yesterday, I learned that folks who go to Dan and Whit's, a very popular, typical northern New England general store in the small town of Norwich, VT, right across the Connecticut River from Hanover, are being told to lock their car doors because of increasing "thefts of opportunity." Sound familiar?
Kharon
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Exactly where might that be?
oldschoolto
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I stay at a private home in a non-gated area... I feel safe and have not had any trouble...
Jim...
Well, if people are going to add their own data points to this thread, I might as well. Not firsthand, but a reliable secondhand report: I do an annual Bonaire trip with a group of close friends, and a couple of years ago I decided to do a different trip instead of the Bonaire group trip. Their rental house in Sabadeco was burglarized. They said the house had an alarm, but they had stopped using it because with people coming and going at various times of the day they had accidentally set it off too many times. I think that experience taught us to stick with rentals in the resorts or resort communities, as we had done in previous years.
oldschoolto
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So they had a alarm and stopped using it because people didn't know how to use it ?
Jim...
So they had a alarm and stopped using it because people didn't know how to use it ?
Jim...
Maybe it wasn't so much the false alarms as that they got tired of arming it and disarming it multiple times throughout the day as people came and went. I dunno--as I said, I skipped that year's trip. Anyway, they got burglarized. The alarm might have helped, but for whatever reason they hadn't armed it that evening, and everyone was out. Just another data point for those keeping track.
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