Accessible by a private road, the home--which includes a ten-room main house, guest house, pool and pool house, beach and two docks--is further protected by gated security.
From the main road to the front door, the area surrounding the property is lined with paver stone and protected by a gated entry and security system.
To brace against slowing demand, national builders like Toll Brothers and Pulte Homes are now going after everyone's favorite cash cow, retiring baby boomers, by erecting gated condominium communities in non-traditional retirement areas like the Midwest and the eastern seaboard.
Southern and lowcountry architectural building styles are dictated by the parameters of the gated community, which is filled with tall live oaks dripping with Spanish moss.
The second phase, which includes 360, 000 square feet boutique hotel and the gated village is scheduled to be completed by the second or third quarter of 2010.
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one gated community seems to have been taken over by black rap stars.
Eight friends gather on a recent night at a private home, surrounded by pine trees, in a gated community outside Rome.
More fortress-like gated communities are being built, guarded around the clock by armed men.
There are two types of properties there: multi-acre estates situated down long driveways behind tall hedges, and side-by-side mansions located in guard-gated developments.
Similarly, an analysis of national crime statistics done last year by University of Florida criminology student Nicholas Branic found that living in a gated community does not significantly influence a person's likelihood of victimization.
The 17-year-old unarmed black teenager, who had been wearing a hooded sweatshirt, was killed by neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman after the two got into a confrontation in a gated community in Sanford, Fla.
Europeans who settle in the United States are at once frightened and exhilarated by a place where people may yearn for a life free of risk (inside gated communities, for example) but know in their hearts they can never get it.
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According to the American Housing Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people living in gated communities rose to almost 11 million households in 2009, up from slightly more than 7 million in 2001, though the numbers may actually be significantly higher, Low said.
After half an hour or so, the Tahoe drives up to a gated complex with a barbed wire fence and from there to a small low-lying building surrounded by a handful of Iraqis in jumpsuits.
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