My neighbour is a known small town drug dealer who also likes to dabble in stolen property and break and enters. He is also a trash collector and a part time metal recycler. We don't get along. I could go on and on about them, 6 years of pure misery but we own our home so we rode it out hoping they would leave, and boy it sure came close this year. They were supposed to get evicted April 1st, then Covid happened and then a lot more shit happened so now who knows. This year we've just about had enough and would like to be able to enjoy our property. The last major drug bust was June of this year and they are slowly working their way back into business. Every time they go to jail they get released a few days or a few weeks later. We've been "looking" for a new house for about a year but I should be able to finish my renovations this summer and put our current house on the market.
I have camera's all along my property and inside my house/garage. So far it has kept us pretty safe and the police seem happy when they get called over. I've had one car vandalized while parked on the street overnight and at least 2 cars damaged from careless people pulling in and out of that driveway. One driver I actually caught as they drove off and they were charged with "failure to remain" however other I did not see the 2nd incident. Their people come over high or drunk, they sometimes get into fights, they throw things around, they go where they shouldn't etc. If I had a fence between our driver ways it would be better but I don't have the real estate space to put a fence on my side and I'm not paying him a fence that he will destroy.
I have 5 safe parking spots at home and then 5 unsafe spots where our driveways meet. The G8 would normally go in the garage but I am using it a lot this year and if I put it in front of the garage it will take up 2 parking spots so I rather keep it stored indoors in a safe environment for now.
I will never ever buy a house that has a "shared" driveway space or a house with a single wide driveway. Lessons learned, this was our first house and now we know what we want and don't want for the next one.