I grew up in a country town in a large family. We never locked the house when we were away because someone might be coming back and will not have the key.
There is one key to the front door and one to the back door. I never had a key to the house because it would always be unlocked. I think we locked the door when mum and dad went away for holidays.
Times change suddenly in the 1980s with a burglary epidemic associated with the increased availability of drugs. The house was always locked.
VCRs had just came out and so there was something lightweight and easy to spot that was well worth burglarising by addicts and criminal opportunists. The VCR was worth several weeks’ wages back then.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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