Last year we had to move house, not out of choice but due to awful neighbours moving in below us. They badly attacked me and kept threatening myself and my son.
It took 6 months after I was attacked, then threatened multiple times and harrased, for housing to move us into the next available suitable property.
We stayed with friends and family for 6 months because I was that scared of going back to the property after being attacked.
We were sooo happy to finally have a home again, a fresh start you know, recover from all the trauma.
However, I really dislike where we live now and it's really effecting my mental health.
The area has a bad rep... And I'm seeing why now... Most of the kids play outside right near my house, it seeps into our front garden, the kids often bash on my door or kick balls at it (sometimes on purpose) but that's the least of my worries and probably wouldn't mind if it was just that, but it's not.
Some of the children are still in nappies, and they'll open our back gate and walk into our back garden sometimes taking toys and other times leaving toys there.
The older children shout profound things, if I'm in my garden I'm always hearing the older children 7/8/9 years of age swearing in an awful context. I. E 'I will f*ING do this and that to you'
I hear the parents at times too tbh, talking bad about gay people, saying how their kids are not going to be gay, drug talk, knocking people out etc... (don't get me wrong they do talk about other 'standard' stuff too).
I'm a very introverted, quiet, anxious type of person and I stick out like a sore thumb here.
It's mostly intimidating because of what I've already been through and because they gather just outside my house while the kids play and the parents often drink, do drugs and let the kids run riot. Sometimes the kids are out but the parents aren't. I guess it's a standard council estate...
It's not every house here but a good handful of them.
My son didn't understand why I wouldn't let him go out and play with them all at first.
Maybe I'm being a snob but oh well.
Our immediate neighbour seem lovely and isn't really involved with the drugs... She's actually against them, along with another couple of families in the area.
I'm not against drugs as such but I'm against people taking/ being on white stuff (whater ever it is) while they have their kids.
I don't really care what they do, it's non of my business but I just don't wana be around it or have my son around it and grow up thinking it's normal / acceptable.
Guess I just needed to vent, we are trying to move again, it's just so stressful and all I want is peace now for my son and myself. Maybe I should go live in a tent in a field.