What can we do about welfare undesirables in our neighbourhood?

I wonder do i have any come back on this. Im a 25yr old professional female and i am co habiting in a luxury home that i purchased 2 months ago with my partner. We both work really really hard in our respective careers, and are both members of various tennis clubs, and help out with charities on our days off. We are both university educated and have worked hard to get where we have got to. We bought in this much sought after development with some help from my father and we are, as a family, collectively infuriated to discover, that a few houses away is now rented out to two people who are clearly in receipt of social wefare payment and they do not look like they have careers. They have a constant stream of undesirably dressed individuals turning up who have been clearly just hanging around when the rest of us are working. My father is furious and so is my fiance, what can we do?

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While I can see your point that you have worked hard to get to this point in your life and that in your opinion these "undesirables" have moved in a few houses away. Unless they cause you direct harm or distress there is nothing that you can do . Having a home , a career, playing tennis,and friends over is not reason to hate on them . I understand that you purchased your home thinking that this was an upscale neighbourhood but these days there is no such thing . Heck even the people you think are decent are doing something behind closed doors. Tolerance and patience thats what is needed here .

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Move.

(To anticipate ANY other viable solution to your "problem" is to exhibit an ENORMOUS degree of ignorance on your part!)

Your father (and potentially your fiance) are idiots…

(Find a neighbourhood that does not tolerate unmarried couples "shacking up", youll be much happier away from the kind of people who engage is such blatantly immoral behaviour!)

In America..nothing…but how is it you feel entitled to be able to control who lives in your neighborhood? Unless you bought the whole development then it is not up to you…you seem to ba an elitist. You can move…find yourself one of those "restricted neighborhoods"

Its none of your business to what people a few houses down are doing. "They look undesirable" "HANGING AROUND" LOL okay, if there isnt any crime being done then Keep your nose out. If you dont like it there you can gladly move

Absolutely nothing

if they were harassing you, committing some kind of crime then yes you could report their behaviour

We can pick our friends but none of us can pick our neighbours

unless they breaking the law then nothing! if an investor has bought that property to rent out then you have no say what so ever in who lives in that house!!!

im not really sure what you think your options are??????? just because you went to university and play tennis do you think this gives you the right to turn say who lives in your street????

what you have to remember in every new estate that is built, a certain percent of houses have to go to local housing asscociation and local councils, and the rest sold private. youll never find an estate that has all professional people like yourself on, and like i said unless they breaking the law there is nothing you can do. you can complain about them enough times so the landlord ends there tenancy, but whats to say another family that you didnt approve off wouldnt move in????

not everyone is as lucky as you are, welcome to the real world!

Jesus! Have these people even bothered you? You cannot choose who you live near and it seems to me that these people may not be your cup of tea but im sure your not theirs either! Why not try to make friends with people from all sectors of society and broaden your horizons. Unless these people bother you then why do anything? Although im sure that if they are not a member of the local tennis club they willbe fireballing your house and dumping dog poo through your letterbox before you know it eh? And the way I do work and have 2 children and have been with my partner since I was 17 and live in a lovely expensive 4 bed house but I would never judge anyone and neither should you.