Oi Neighbours!
It was a mistake to buy here. We didn't realize it at the time, but now we know. Without our neighbours everything would be peachy.Yesterday I noticed that the one smashed pane of glass in our attached neighbour's council house (which has been there, un-checked for over a year) had copulated and had smashed-pane babies. Now all the windows at the front of their house are smashed. Good times.
Riccardo and I debated calling the police, the city council (which rents to them), anyone. The fact is, if we file a claim and nothing is done about these crap neighbours, it will really negatively effect our resale potential. Claims become public, and anyone thinking of buying and smart enough to check into the neighbourhood will run into such information. Not good times.
To make matters worse, I ran into our drunken (but friendly) neighbour of two-doors-down. Old Frank is a gossip-mill in himself and was more than willing to share a few tidbits. Apparently last week the ambulance was called to collect the neighbour-lady because her deliquent 14-year-old son had pushed her down the stairs and shattered her shoulder and arm (not surprising since she would have landed on a bare concrete floor; the place is a tip, inside and out). Now the kids are staying with 'family' up island, and neighbour-lady is in the hospital. This explains why we hadn't heard hell and damnation over there in several days.
Sometime close to this, a feud apparently broke out between our lovely neighbour and her drug dealers. Perhaps this was the result of neighbour-lady not being able to pay off her drug debts with late-night 'house calls', if you know what I mean. These are the guys, apparently, who smashed their windows. Frank informed me that Ryman, the psycho son, then went over and smashed the drug-dealers' windows. Like that's going to help things.
So what can we do? Not much. We don't have any evidence that 'illegal' activity has taken place; it's all gossip, so the police can't do more than they're already doing. The council is going to have a look at the place tomorrow, but the best they can do is board-up the windows. We don't really want to file a formal complaint in case nothing actually comes of it. So we continue to live next to trash living in squallor. Excellent.
Cryssie! Sounds almost as bad as my favorite neighbour in Japan...remember that??? haha
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