Why so few armoured doors in London?

Posted by FriedChickenBox@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 363 comments

Hello,

I'm italian and back home it's very common to live in buildings with many apartements. They range from basic to luxury buildings, especially in large cities.

A very common thing in these buildings, despite them having a first central door and then of course a door for every apartment, is that most tenants install armoured doors. Instead, in Uk I've lived in a plethora of terraced houses, with street level door, which are never armoured, but have just the usual latch lock. Why is that? Living in London the crime level is much higher than say my small city in Italy, but regardless in italy most people put an armoured door.

I've many thories on this:

- in italy people are too scared of burglars. In London they are too little scared.

- uk is a culture of insurances, so they rely on that.

- why would you armour the door if you have street level glass windows that can be easily broken.

- the period door is nicer, the armoured one is depressing, who cares if they steal all your s..t

- Italian thieves are more apt than uk ones that can easily be stopped with a latch lock.

Ideas?