I hate my cul de sac neighbors and I’ve only lived here 8 months! After years getting over a divorce, I was so happy and proud of myself to save enough money to buy a house on my own. It took a year of house hunting, checking neighborhoods at all hours to find what I thought would be a long term home. Though it was a short sell, thought I was helping a loving couple that was moving for their soon to be expanding family that needed to get out from under their financial problems. I got my first red flag that something was amiss however when a few days before closing while going over the pool maintenance with the husband, he said, “one reason we are leaving is because of the neighbors. And btw, my wife’s ex-husband lives directly across the street.” Maybe I should have backed out then, but it was too late. The first week while I was moving in, the previous seller’s EX walked across the street to tell me that I was moving into HIS house, to notify me of all the work that he did (didn’t want to tell him his remodeling sucked and I had planned to change a lot of it). Not a moment later, the neighbor woman next door comes by, starts bad mouthing the previous owners. She then TELLS me that “everyone in the culdesac SHARES house keys, because we take care of our own” and “our family used to have access to your pool and jacuzzi” . I was shocked and said I wasn’t going to share my key with Even though we have a square mile “park” right across the road, my front yard has become open territory for them to play soccer in, throw frisbees, ride their bikes in my driveway and across my lawn (almost ran down one kid when I was pulling in after work because he was in front of my garage door on his bike) When I told him not to do it again, kid just mouthed off at me. Then there’s the DOG. City codes say all dogs in the front yard should be on a leash. And I’m deathly afraid of dogs since I was bitten once. They have this huge hairy beast and it seems everytime I’m in my front yard, they just let it loose and the dog has chased me 3-4 time when I was getting out of my car and when I was painting my front door one day, their dog RAN into my house trying to chase my cat which was sitting next to me in the living room. I feel I live in some weird Stepford Wives movie.