&gt;&gt; Plus the added &quot;security&quot; of the front desk... Makes it feel more secure.<p>For me, there&#x27;s also the fact that you are one unit out of very many within the hotel. Even if someone is going to be bold enough to break into a hotel room in the more &quot;public environment&quot;, the odds are fairly low you&#x27;d be the victim from a pool of hundreds of rooms. Your stay is also brief, so you don&#x27;t have a routine schedule a would-be criminal has time to study. Plus there&#x27;s typically not going to be much worth stealing out of a hotel room anyway (wide screen TV, computers, etc).<p>I&#x27;ve always felt fairly safe in large apartment&#x2F;condo buildings. I&#x27;ve never lived on the ground floor, so it feels like the odds of someone entering the building (or climbing the outside), coming to my floor, and choosing my specific unit to break into are quite low. You&#x27;re very unlikely to be targeted by outside strangers; and there is a much smaller pool of people who live in the building capable of targeting you.<p>Three years ago I moved into an apartment with a street-level door. Basically a neighbourhood of townhouse-like buildings. It&#x27;s been almost two years since I was burglarized while at work. I still don&#x27;t sleep well anymore, with the ever-present feeling of dread that a nighttime home invasion is coming any day now. I can&#x27;t leave the apartment for longer than 30 minutes at a time without expecting to come home to another completed burglary. I can&#x27;t afford to move yet, but I can&#x27;t wait for the day I go back to doubling my current rent to live in a higher class, 100+ dwelling building.<p>I will probably never buy a house. As I get older and save for a down payment, I&#x27;m sure it will be for a condo. I don&#x27;t care for condo associations with their politics and fees, and the fact you only own or semi-own a section of an entire building. But I would never feel safe in a house where I have only a single door sitting between myself and my things, and an entire city full of parasitic people.