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@robertwills

Since I originally posted I can now say it's true. I have had to come back home after dark now due to daylight savings and my heart and adrenaline starts ramping up even before I get to the parking lot. I look around like a chipmunk looking out for predators and I hurry nervously into the building. What a crumby way to live! The last place I lived, which is far away from this city and much smaller, when I would leave or come back home sometimes a neighbor who I never spoke to and didn't even know, would see me, wave and said out loud "Love you!". What a difference!

The good news is overall the frequency of people hanging out outside is gone down substantially and there have been no threatening body language for at least a week. I certainly feel better now. The day I leave I will celebrate.

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I’m truly relating to how you feel, in Canada where I live cannabis is legal and this has opened another problem for me. People are smoking and vaping in their homes and on their balconies day and night and even if I keep my windows closed it gets inside my apartment. It’s not just the drugs, cigarettes are another issue here and I’m constantly plagued by their pollution. I’ve tried sending polite notes to them but they’re totally disregarded, they feel that they’re not breaking any laws so my efforts are ignored. Of course I can always move but the rents here are very high and I pay a little less because I’ve been living here for a long time, I can’t afford to move because I’m on a fixed income so I sometimes feel trapped. My health is not great and I have respiratory problems so it’s very difficult to survive here. The landlord doesn’t help because they aren’t breaking any rules and most newcomers pay higher rents than I do. This is an ongoing problem with no resolution in sight and it truly causes me to feel very helpless and hopeless.