Sorry you have to face all this. It sucks.
But … blame the fathers, too, eh?
I’m confused about why you hide in your bedroom. Did I misunderstand that part?
Because you can’t hear the loud music in there. Second paragraph of the OP.
Wow, that is pretty damn bad too. Has anyone ever called the police to report her for a noise violation?
True enough! Their fathers can also be eaten by wolverines and that would be fine by me.
You can’t hear the music in there and the pot smell doesn’t really travel into the bedrooms either.
Multiple times. The police have basically told us to fuck off.
:rolleyes:
I couldn’t take her being an asshole a few months ago over it. After listening to her go at over an hour on her fucking pocket sized front yard because my ten year old daughter was playing with a few friends last October, I dumped some leaves in her front yard.
The bitch called the police on me and I was nearly arrested over it.
This is a small town and I am going to lobby the mayor to legislate that you can’t run a leaf blower for more than ten minutes.
Where are you moving to? You can get a halfway decent house in Staten Islandor large parts of NJ for under $500k in a quiet family friendly neighborhood.
We are moving to a suburb west of Boston. We have looked in the surrounding area of NYC and after much research have decided it really isn’t for us any longer. We want to stay close to NYC so we can visit regularly but we will be much happier a few hours north of here.
Yeah, I saw that, but (s)he mentioned hiding out in there right after the part about his (her?) neighbors smoking weed. I misunderstood for a minute.
Actually, the weed that smells like skunk is the good stuff. At least that’s what I’m told. 
I totally understand. Properly taxes on my house have climbed from $3600 a decade ago to over 6k this year. I would leave NJ if I could but my husband works in NYC. Still it is nice to be able to plan a day with my kids with a morning at the Met and the afternoon strolling down Fifth Avenue on Christmas Eve.
How are property taxes in Boston? We were there last summer for a few days and then to Cape Cod for a week. A very nice city. My kids happily spent the entire day in the science museum.
Have people forgotten Connecticut?
There is this spiffy train thingy that runs up and down the coast all the way from New London right into New York!!! Imagine that!!!
We have lovely beaches, state parks, lots and lots of lovely communities that aren’t Bridgeport or New Haven. And you know, there are many communities that you can get a great house in a nice small community that is 2 hours from NY and 2 hours from Boston for way less than $500 000.
A little high but the particular area we are looking at has some of the best schools in the nation so we are totally fine with that. For example, one of the houses we’ve looked at on Trulia is $225k and it has $4,500 a year in taxes.
We spend quite a bit of time in various parts of CT (primarily Fairfield and Madison) visiting family and we’ve known for a while it wasn’t anywhere we would put down roots. The family we have there love it though and have multiple generations who’ve stayed within 20 miles of where they were born. We get why they like it but it really isn’t for us.
I have a job interview on Tuesday! Everyone cross your fingers for me and, if all goes well, soon I’ll be able to give all my horrible neighbors the finger as we move the hell out!
Wait, you want your neighbors to get eaten by my neighbors?
It’s a deal. But you have to keep them. Mwahaha!
Make sure you lace her neighbors with poison before our neighbors eat them. Everybody* wins!
*except the clean-up crew
No, what you need is two wolverines; economize!! But be sure they drop by the downstairs neighbors’ for a while first, while they’re smoking up. Then just wait until the wolverines develop the munchies! 
Sounds like a bargain of a house, but a pretty high tax rate for the metro area.
My tax rate is only 13.66 per $1000 of assessed value. Boston proper is only 13.04.
Ouch!
My understanding of the taxes is based solely on what is listed on the realtor.com or trulia.com pages. They could be off or it may be that the tax paid last year was higher than normal for some reason. We are going to be in a rental for a year when we move there so we haven’t really dug into the nuts and bolts of property ownership in the area yet.
That’s what I came to post.
The taxes sound about right for the area–Boston taxes are astoundingly low compared to many of the surrounding suburbs.
For the win.