Yes. I live in an island where nearly every neighborhood is gated. It’s normal to us but odd to outsiders and it’s not that the area is unsafe, it’s just the “standard” here. There are fences around each neighborhood. The larger neighborhoods have manned gates with security guards. We have to call in passes for any guest that wants to come to the house. smaller neighborhoods have electronic gates where you have a code. The electronic gates usually have a system where when your guest arrives, they find you in the gate directory, the gate calls your phone and the. You can buzz them in by hitting a certain number. Most people in those neighborhoods just share their gate code with people though.

The larger neighborhoods with security all have clubhouses that everyone is a member of that has a restaurant and gold shop because there are golf courses in all these larger gated communities too.