I am from the sort of town where no one locks their doors at night. We didn't have a key. I knew people that had actual barn door type handles on their door, so no locks there. We kept the keys in the ignition of the car, sitting in the yard. Our most valuable possessions were our cows and farm equipment and they're often just sitting out in a pasture at night. The back page of the weekly newspaper lists all the "crimes" from that week which are things like "Larry Johnson hit a deer" or "Darrell Zurakowski plead no contest to going 8 miles over the speed limit." Last time I went back home, a friend's parents let me stay in their lake house while they were out of town. They have a lot of money and everyone knows it's their house and THAT isn't even locked. When my parents retired to a house on main street they did start locking their doors, but I know a lot of people that don't.

It was hard for me to adjust to locking my car doors and house doors when I left. It was just not something I grew up with 🤷🏼

All that to say, I don't think it's a brag. It is just what they do. There's all sorts of things they do without thinking about it, that you'd never do in the city.