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    Are they afraid to leave their apartment? It looks like they’re outside their apartment with needing the key to turn the deadbolt.

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      Different lock types are more or less common in different places.

      I don’t know where the artist of the comic lives, but here in the UK for example most exterior doors have a keyhole on BOTH sides, and you need to use the key to lock or unlock it from inside, as well as from out.

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          It does feel like it might be, but I don’t know if it actually is.

          The UK generally has extremely good fire safety regulations, so if this was getting people killed I feel like it would have been the subject of some scrutiny.

          The house I grew up in was this way, and the house I live in now with a new door (<10yo) is still that way.

          As a kid I never thought about it, and I don’t remember ever being stuck in the house.

          The way people normally deal with keys is that everyone who needs a key has one of their own on their keyring, and there is usually also a ‘house’ key which stays by the door and isn’t taken away anywhere.

          And none of this is to say “this is a good way” it’s just to say “this is the way people are used to here”