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My feeling is that if you move in next to a college, what do you expect? It's like the people back home who move next door to an apple orchard and then complain about the use of pesticides on it!
We're seeing the same thing here around the U of W. Some of the problems are very real, but most of them are not coming from the student population. For example, "The Ave" has gotten dirtier and now has more empty store fronts than just a few years ago - but the big problem is homeless teenage panhandlers. The students don't like this any better than anyone else.
But there are neighbors who complain about party houses, noise, etc. Some of it I can understand - who wants drunk random people puking in your bushes? And plastic proper yard furniture is dirt cheap - there's no excuse for a crappy indoor couch on the porch. Yet I read one resident complaint in a newspaper article there were too many students, behaving or not, in the immediate neighborhood of the university. Isn't one of the hallmarks of any vibrant campus life that student live on or near campus? What does she expect?
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