Yeah, I understand all of those things. If you can tolerate the junk from the neighbors, and you didn't pay too much for your house, you should be able to sell it and get out of that neighborhood. There are a lot of people who are numb to the kind of problems you had there and they will buy your house. If you look out toward rural areas or small towns, you can find much more affordable and peaceful housing that what you get in larger population areas.

You moved out of the frying pan into the fire it sounds like. You just have to be careful and picky if you want to be in a neighborhood, you can go around knocking on doors and asking questions of the people who live there before you decide to buy. You will usually be able to find a peace loving person who will tell you the truth about the garbage going on in the neighborhood, and if they all say there is no garbage going on you know they are all in on the garbage and it's not a neighborhood you want to live in.

I was shocked when I first realized how cheap and how much better the housing is in small towns and rural areas, and in many cities you can find those towns and rural areas just a few miles outside of the main city limits. Whenever I lived in rented apartments when I was young, I had the same problems you are describing with neighbors on a smaller scale but with them being on the other side of my walls. I then bought my own house in the city, then moved two or three times in the city in other houses........always the same to varying degrees. It's our culture now that it is acceptable for people to be inconsiderate of their neighbors....thank atheism and evolution in the schools and on tv for that...but that's a side issue here.....

I was truly amazed and dumbfounded when I first saw how much better housing for the money is available if you get away from the larger cities....and people who say you get the same problems with neighbors no matter where you go are just plain wrong and don't know what they are talking about. Green Acres is indeed the place to be!!!!!

Buy your own home, if the world doesn't fall into chaos before you retire, it will give you security in your retirement.

If you can't afford to hire repair and maintenance, learn to do it yourself, it's not rocket science and you get personal satisfaction by learning and doing it.

Even if you get a shack in the country which you can afford and let it fall to pieces as you get older, the property will still have value and you will have security in it.......and there are plenty of those places available.