Neighbors
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I'm at my wits end with my neighbors...
We moved to the suburbs next to them about 4 years ago. They seemed nice enough at the time, a good religious family that has adopted 6 foster kids. Year after year they get more and more annoying. Their deck is on their side yard and only about 10-15 feet from my bedroom window. When it's nice the kids like to scream and bounce basketballs on the deck early in the morning while I try and sleep.
They also have a club house, swing set and trampoline right outside my office window. It's nearly impossible to work at home with the windows open in the summer.
I've spent hundreds if not thousands on landscaping the front and back yards since we've moved in, including a laurel hedge row between our yards that will hopefully be tall enough to hide the eyesore of a house and deflect some of the sound.
Their front lawn looks like a Toys R Us exploded and is littered with toys 24/7 and it's starting to spill onto my property. It seems like every other day I'm picking up a soccer ball, frisbee, peddle car or bicycle out of my front lawn or driveway.
Yesterday the kids came over 3 times saying their ball went over the fence and asked if we could toss it back. The first 2 times my wife said yes, and the third time I said NO, it was ours now and my dog is going to use it as a chew toy.
This morning the mother walked up to my door while I was on a phone call and I was thinking she was going to confront me for disciplining her kids.
I was on the phone to waste management because somehow our garbage wasn't picked up the previous day.
She asked if I had some jumper cables because her kids were playing in her SUV last night had left the lights on. They just let the little kids run free and play in cars while she's trying to home school the teenagers.
Well my wife worked from home today and noticed one of the little ones dragging our recycling bin down the road and when she went to put it back she noticed the trash can was gone and found it in their back yard. THIS IS WHY MY GARBAGE WASN'T PICKED UP YESTERDAY?
I know it all sounds petty but little shit like this has been building up for a while. She has even offered to watch our kid which is obviously not going to happen since she can't even watch her own.