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Today I was reflecting on the fact that I pay the most Iāve ever paid in rent, and yet it feels like I live in section 8 housing.
My upstairs neighbor is currently loudly rapping with his window open. He has been rapping for hours. He will probably continue rapping until midnight, if not 3 or 4am. I have complained. Management has done nothing. I understand that these people are basically impossible to evict
One of the tenants below me loudly abuses and berates her kids with the windows open. Itās insane. Screaming obscenities at toddlers. Sometimes it starts up at 2 or 3am too, which is always fun to try to sleep through
Police are called to my building several times a week. Sometimes daily. Usually itās for ādomestic incidentsā (to employ the euphemism my building manager often deploys). Sometimes itās for violent crimes.
Our building has no-smoking clauses, and yet I can never escape the scent of weed. Even with the windows closed
Anti-social activity abounds. Petty vandalism in the elevators and common areas. People stealing shit from the laundry room. People throwing raw trash down the trash chutes, which creates legitimate public health hazards, on top of the horrible scents. Some of them are also just rude and inconsiderate on a basic interpersonal level too. Thereās this one woman who always forgets her key fob and just waits at the back door until sometime lets her in. The few times Iāve opened the door for her, she hasnāt said anything and has just walked right past me as if I didnāt exist
Donāt even get me started on the litter. Sometimes itās things like chip bags in the elevators. Other times itās fucking fried chicken bones. They also steal shopping carts from nearby grocery stores and just leave them in the hallways. You can also often find discarded beer bottles in the courtyard and in the grass out front
Random people who donāt live here wander the hallways. Theyāve been responsible for a string of burglaries in recent years.
Another thing is the prison-like atmosphere this kind of environment breeds. Some of my neighbors have āsmile, youāre on camera!ā signs outside of their units. The front desk lady has to interrogate visitors because of how often voucher tenants being their horrible hood rat friends over
Iām really getting sick of this. It feels like itās getting worse. Iāve been putting up with it for about 3 years, but Iām thinking about moving out. Only problem is that it feels like voucher tenants can be hard to escape. I had no idea this building was basically section 8 while touring it ā the facilities were nice enough (faux-luxury, even, as apartments today tend to be). The tenants I encountered were mostly students and young professionals. And, indeed, most of the buildingās residents are polite, respectful, productive members of society. Some of the voucher tenants are pleasant too. But all it takes is that 1% to ruin it for the 99%
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