DM lives in the same HA property that I grew up in. She lives there with the stepdad and three brothers, two of whom are grown up, the youngest however is only 10.
It's a nice house. She's made a lot of improvements over the years and it's beautifully decorated. However, about 18 months ago her next door neighbours (a quiet young family) moved out and were replaced by what I can only describe as a one-house-episode-of-Shameless.
Dad is a bare knuckle fighter, mum is nice enough but according to the tales he frequently belows from the bedroom window to anyone passing is an IV drug user. They had three very sweet children who have been taken into care due to his frequent violent attacks on her and them (DM constantly phoning the police due to crashes and screams from next door). The mum was pregnant, was whisked off following a particularly vicious attack and returned, no longer pregnant, and without a newborn.
A couple of weeks ago, DM and everyone else in the house were woken at 5am by a full scale drugs raid on the house by local police. DM later had a leaflet popped through her door from the police advising her that organised crime had been clamped down in her area.
DM breathed a sigh of relief at this point, genuinely thinking they would not be allowed to return. But within 24 hours he was back, broke down the chipboard covering the door and seems to be living there, along with her.
DM has been offered an alternative house in a lovely area of the town. The house itself is laid out differently, and my eldest brother would need to use the dining room as a bedroom. DM is wavering about this as she doesn't want to put her dining table into the large storage building attached to the new house. I think this is a ridiculous reason not to move away from her very own one man crime wave.
She has agreed for me to post on here to see what everyone else thinks.
AIBU to think she should seize the chance with both hands and cast ne'er a backward glance?!