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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a lot of gators in the SE US and there are a lot of people. Given the numbers of both, not that many folks are harmed by alligators every year.[/quote]

My parents live in a golf community in the south so there are gators quite often.  At least once a year they send me a photo of an alligator wandering down their street, or multiple gators on the golf course.  What I do find mystifying are the HOAs or community regulations that limit yard-fencing.  As a result, houses back up to these ponds and you can't just send your kids outside to play because you can't be certain a gator hasn't wandered into your yard.  [/quote]

People in HOA golf communities don’t really just send their kids out back to play. Before we moved to a golf community, we did have a fenced in yard in an older neighborhood and I did go out on the play set. But once we were in the golf neighborhood that did have ponds/gators we mostly a) had scheduled play dates inside people’s homes, b) played out front in the quiet street (roller blading, sidewalk chalk, etc.), or c) went to the neighborhood swim/country club. Or we swam in the screened-in pool at our house. You are right though that kids don’t just roam around out back by the random retention ponds and whatnot. I’m sure gators may have been a factor, but we also had to avoid golfballs hitting us because our house backed right up to the course. Personally I have no desire to ever live in a gated/HOA/golf neighborhood ever again for that and other reasons.[/quote]

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