To be deeply regretting this move

[gothicomedy]

DH and I decided to downsize a year ago. We moved from a four bedroom house in a mature suburb with a mixed age group to a two bed in a newer estate about two miles away.
I feel like I'm living in a different world. There are gangs of really badly behaved children constantly causing trouble eg trespassing and refusing to move when asked, climbing up on top of the communal wooden bin sheds and jumping up and down until the wood starts to break, taking stuff out of the bins and throwing it around the green areas, playing football until all hours with lots of shouting and bad language. The parents are either dismissive or annoyed when complaints are made; if you tell their children off directly they accuse you of upsetting them; the children themselves are cheeky and rude and seem to have no respect for anyone.
Some of the teenagers are worse; hanging around smoking weed and drinking and making a racket into the small hours. Again, their parents seem to do nothing about it.

While there was ocassionally a loud party or someone slamming car doors late at night or the odd barbecue going on until 1 or 2 in the morning where we used to live, the residents in general seemed to have more respect and consideration for everyone.

The estate we're living in now is not a rough or deprived one. It's very middle class. A lot of these kids go to private schools etc. but their parents seem to indulge or overlook their anti social behaviour.

I really wish we hadn't moved and we are seriously considering looking for somewhere small in a more mixed age area, despite the expense of moving again.

AIBU or should we just cut our losses and move?

@justnottrue

Your assertion was that families who only live in a house worth £1million would not be able to afford private school fees and therefore the op was mistaken in her belief that the children on the estate attended such institutions.

You don’t need to be any kind of economics expert to know this is clearly untrue and that many families with a million pound property can and do use private schools.

That wasn't my assertion at all. I idly said that a million pounds wouldn't buy you much of a house and many school fees. In itself, that is true. If you didn't own a house and had no job but had a million pounds in the bank and lived in an expensive part of the country, you'd quite quickly get through it if you decided to send your children to independent schools. But obviously lots of people have huge salaries as well as their million pound houses, and could buy an entire school, never mind pay school fees.

But my remark was basically a throwaway remark, not one that merits this level of discussion.

Where I live a million pounds will get you a very nice house. These children aren't going to Eton, but some are going to local private schools where the fees are a few thousand a year.

My point was that these aren't the children of parents struggling to survive, with no capacity or resources to ensure their children are behaving properly. It is, in the main, lax parenting and mothers and fathers who jump to their kids' defence when anyone complains and who don't appear to be raising them to have any respect or consideration for other people or for communal spaces and property.