We had a woman move into the house across the street from us a few years ago, and there were five or six kids ranging from2-3 up to 17.
No father.
Since then, we have had cop cars on the street, break-ins, you name it. One of the kids broke into the house of the elderly couple next door to them, and the poor woman in her eighties went into her bathroom to find him hiding in the shower. He was sent away.
They don’t shovel the driveway. They don’t rake the leaves. She tries to get them to do it, but she apparently can’t control them.
What really irritates me is they have a special school bus van that comes to their house every morning. Just for one of the teenage boys, probably to take him to some school somewhere. Only for him. The van waits and waits and waits, honks the horn (I had to go tell the guy not to honk his horn at that hour) and every morning without fail, the kid makes that driver wait 15-20 minutes. But he waits. When he does come out, he saunters to the van as if he had all the time in the world, not a care in the world.
I presume the driver is not allowed to just leave. The whole scene irritates me to no end. And it is all intertwined with the subject of this thread, I am sure.
We had a similiar situation in a previous neighborhood. ONE FAMILY left and allowed their house to go Section 8/HUD and the ENTIRE neighborhood went downhill fast. Cars driving by all hours of the night, cops cars cruising by, guns, noise.
Amazing how quickly a place can go from good to bad