Hearing of the neighborhoods some of you have lived in or currently lived in is scarey. I've been fortunate in my life that I've never lived in such a place where there are fights out in the street, crack whores soliciting and sirens wailing. When we were first married my wife and I lived in a less than desirable neighborhood but didn't have any problems there. We didn't have the best neighbors but they didn't bother us. Once, our next door neighbor got arrested because he stole a car, yanked the engine to install in his car, then abandoned the stolen car a couple of blocks over from the apartment complex we lived in. We never had a problem with him, he and his wife were friendly toward us. The was part was that the apartments were next to a a train track and also directly under the flight path of the local international airport so it was quite noisy. We moved as soon as we could afford it.
We've been in our present home for 23 years and the only issue we have had was when we had some Latino neighbors that liked to have bonfires in the backyard and play LOUD music all day and all night. It's not so bad when they do it but turn the down the volume after 11:00pm or so but these guys would play loud music until 4:00am on a weeknight when I had to work that day. I confronted them on several occasions asking them to turn the music down and we got into some shouting matches but nothing ever escalated to a fight. Closest thing to a fight was when one intoxicated guy told me he was going to get a gun and shoot me (that's when I walked away and called the sheriff's office). Luckily, they moved out (actually, they were evicted) and the new neighbors are much better.
We're not real good at keeping our doors locked and have never had a break in or anything stolen. When my kids were younger they sometimes would not close the front door completely when they left for school and we would come home in the afternoon and find that our front door was wide open and had been that way for the whole day. Once, a delivery driver left a note that he found our door wide open so he left our package and closed the front door.
I can understand that someone could be in a position where they live somewhere undesirable but are unable to do anything about it because they cannot afford to move so they feel trapped. That could be a very frustrating position to be in.
We've been in our present home for 23 years and the only issue we have had was when we had some Latino neighbors that liked to have bonfires in the backyard and play LOUD music all day and all night. It's not so bad when they do it but turn the down the volume after 11:00pm or so but these guys would play loud music until 4:00am on a weeknight when I had to work that day. I confronted them on several occasions asking them to turn the music down and we got into some shouting matches but nothing ever escalated to a fight. Closest thing to a fight was when one intoxicated guy told me he was going to get a gun and shoot me (that's when I walked away and called the sheriff's office). Luckily, they moved out (actually, they were evicted) and the new neighbors are much better.
We're not real good at keeping our doors locked and have never had a break in or anything stolen. When my kids were younger they sometimes would not close the front door completely when they left for school and we would come home in the afternoon and find that our front door was wide open and had been that way for the whole day. Once, a delivery driver left a note that he found our door wide open so he left our package and closed the front door.
I can understand that someone could be in a position where they live somewhere undesirable but are unable to do anything about it because they cannot afford to move so they feel trapped. That could be a very frustrating position to be in.
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