bullied by my neighbour since 2 years

Since 2 years (today exactly!) I have been renting a house where i have had neighbours from hell.
I really feel i need to leave here. But for some reason i don't understand, i don't know where to go.
From the day i moved in here, there was really loud TV on, max. volume all day until late in the evening. It drove me mad. I did not dare say anything about it but i got totally stressed out. After 2 months, i went to the neighbour's house inquiring politely if the volume could please be turned down a bit. Their reaction was surprised and irritated, the former inhabitant of my house never complained ( ...because that person was of age, deaf and demented.)
The next day it was the same and when i tried talking about it, they called me insulting names. In the end i did what i knew i shouldn't have done, i called the police at 11.30 PM. When the police had warned the neighbours and left, the man got berserk and threatened to enter my house and kill me and made as much noise as he could for hours.
This repeated itself once more. Then it came to my ears the neighbours had started a petition in the neighbourhood to get me out.
There were comments on the way i decorated my house (as if that's of anyone's business) . I could hear the neighbours talking bad about me to other people on the street.
The noise just continued. There were talks with the local cop (who effectively did nothing at all) and the housing coop , who made the neighbours pomise to behave, but this had the reverse effect.
I was threatened several more times. The neighbour man came into my garden several times late in the evening, destroying the gate, kicking things and insulting me.
Then they had a problem with my cats, they wanted me to keep them inside and i made expensive fencing around the garden to keep the cats safe (and frustrated.)
But their own dog roams the streets free, which is an offence overhere.
I tried to endure the noise and fear all the time and tried to get used to it but i couldn't. The injustice and my own helplessness were infuriating. Strangely enough i seemed to sink into myself and became numb and passive. I started drinking, too.
A few months ago, the neighbour stood guard waiting for me one afternoon and grabbed my bike and threatened to attack and ruin me once more. I then fled my own home and stayed away for weeks, only returning to feed my cats.
I am now back in that house because in my mind i have no other place to go. I have reported everything to the police meanwhile. Apparently i have rights as a tender and the housing coop is supposed to give me service, eg. make sure their product=my house provides comfortable living. But they do nothing at all.
Since i officially reported the assaults and threats, the noise has gone down. I can still hear the two men next door swearing at me, calling me names to their friends and others in the neighbourhood.
I don't want to go outside anymore and try to be invisible when i have to go out, because i don't want to see the dark looks on the faces of the people anymore.
It has been two years of hell, lonely and also not having a decent job.
All reasons are there to leave. I wonder why i have become so passive and hostile towards the environment. And i wonder why i don't leave as of yet. Sometimes i think i have bottled up so much anger towards my own frightened, apathic attitude and also so much anger and frustration towards these two people, that i cannot even see the intensity of what happened anymore and if i would then i might explode.
I would like nothing more than to leave this place and i just wonder, what has happened that i seem to be unable to think clear and make a good plan, and where on earth should i go from here?!

Sometimes i wish there was a place on earth where i would feel i came to a good place, just sometimes i wish i could fall into somebody's arms just for a short while and scream, just scream and cry all these swallowed tears out!

Has anybody got any ideas? they'd be very welcome.
Thank you

Two years is such a long time! I've had horrible neighbours a few times in the past (loud noise and fights, verbal abuse to me, threatening graffiti) but nothing so bad as you describe. Where I live there's the local council as an intermediate step before going to the police. Do you have anything like that there? Or are there any local/national independent organisations that exist to help with nuisance neighbours? Or a Citizens Advice Bureau that gives general advice on domestic issues?

Do you know how any of your other neighbours feel about it? If several of you complain at the same time to the coop, it may have more effect (that's unfair, I know, but whatever works.) Does the coop manage more than one property? Could you request to be moved to the next available apartment away from where you are now? It's not fair that it should have to be you that moves, but I've not found that fairness applies very much to this sort of situation.

Hi white24,

I am so sorry you have had to deal with those a..holes for such a long time I am someone who tends to take extreme measures in situations like that. I just have a low level of tolerance for this kind of stuff. I definitely would have called the cops just like you did, but I would've called them on the day one if the TV had not been turned down, not 2 months later. I believe that their threats to kill you are empty threats. I don't believe they'd dare touch you after you reported the threats to the police, but they will definitely continue the psychological attacks on you. My concern would be your cats and your property. They've already destroyed the gate (did you report it by the way?) and they might continue destroying the property and, at some point, they might hurt the cats. I'd say, it's time for you to get more aggressive and to act quickly: take it to court or move out of there ASAP if you want to protect yourself from further psychological damage, which should be a priority. Your well-being is the most important thing. Taking an action might feel scary, but once you do it, you'll feel better. Believe it or not, giving in to depression and helplessness in those situations is scarier, because it leaves you unprotected. Sometimes, we need to force ourselves to act and to do it quickly if we want to avoid psychological and possibly physical injury. Good luck.

WM

I've got neighbours on one side of me who think they own the neighbourhood. The woman of the couple next to me is one of these women who likes to think she is in charge, and she belittles her husband, and as a result, any little grumble he has about me or mine, comes my way. He's complained about trees 'blocking his view' (we live near countryside). He moans about my dog barking(even if the dog is only barking occasionally). I think his problem is, he took early retirement, and now he is bored, so he needs to find something to entertain himself. I had to endure loud music through the wall(semi detached)and
I made enquiries with the council about courses of action, but when you live next door, you have to tread very carefully, especially if one of them has an aggressive approach to life, which in your situation is true.