Hate the neighbors

I f-ing hate my neighbors. They're loud, their kids are loud until 11pm, and my kid can't sleep. This is the 4th night in a row that LB has woken up because of them.

It's really only two neighbors- the ones across the sidewalk from us, and the ones catty-corner in the alley from us. And, of course, those two redneck women are friends and pass thru my yard, talking and gabbing and smoking, and all that noise and smoke comes into my house. Not to mention their f-ing rugrat kids and delinquent teenage boys, who are constantly in the park across the street from my house, screaming and yelling. Which is okay during the day. I totally expect kids to be kids. But I also expect them to leave me the he!! alone, not sit on my stoop right outside LB's room and talk loudly, not throw things at my dog's face, and not get me up at 11pm so they can call the cops because their parents are beating them.

Then there is another neighbor. It's not the people, it's their bird. They let it outside, but it sounds just like a high pitched, screaming little girl, and sometimes sounds like a child being beaten. The first several times I heard it, I thought it was just the neighborhood kids screaming, but then I saw the bird and realized that it was imitating them. And last night, they left it out there until 11:30pm (seriously, I was already in bed), letting it squawk and scream.

I am just so sick of this neighborhood. I understand the military has to maximize their land use by building houses close together, but this is ridiculous. I don't understand how these people can have such little respect for people that live thisclose to them.

I've decided that Hubby and I can't buy a house within a stone's throw of our neighbors. I just need the quiet and the space and the respect. I'm trying to stay calm and not worry about this, but I can't help it when they wake up my sleeping child, who took a half hour to get to bed!!!! F*** you, white trash, redneck neighbors!!!!