To think it’s weird that they keep asking about where I live

This is definitely normal in villages. Pretty sure people are just being friendly. People are interested to know which house you bought because they know which houses are on the market/viewed it themselves/know other people that viewed it.
When we moved into our house and got chatting to people , we must have met 5 different people that had looked at it!

If you think this is weird, a man my husband had never seen before walked up to him in the pub last week and went "aah you live at OUR HOUSE NAME"
It's a weird small town/village thing, they're obsessed with where you live, how nuch it cost, what youre doing to the house, people here talk openly about house values. Our next door neighbour said (as she introduced herself for the first time) "we saw what you got it for, I think it's because the third bedroom is a funny shape isn't it, because you got a bargain at £xyz, we heard youd offered on (name of another house across the road) but it was on for a lot more wasn't it". We've also had a man who lived in our house 30 years ago say he might pop round for old times sake, totally uninvited....
It was a real eye opener on how nosy people are, and how open they are about it!

Be aloof and keep them guessing!! It will drive them mad!! CFs

Because she's has just moved away from an abusive relationship, and she is not ready to give private information out to strangers!! Understand this!!

Village life. Sorry. Every, single, tiny thing becomes HUGE.
it’s why we’re moving to a city 😁

It’s weird you care so much and don’t just say ‘I’ve moved into …… “ 🤷‍♀️

So they can look on rightmove and nose around the inside of your house?

Hoping for an invite for coffee no doubt.

It’s understandable why you don’t want to divulge this info to just anyone and that you are on guard. I’d be the same. I’m sure it’s just curiosity.

If this is a village, I would give them my address and invite them for a cuppa and a playdate. And get used to it LOL.

Do you think she possibly thinks you are pretending to live there to get a place in the school?

How bizarre of her….better get used to whole village wanting to know your business 😂

Once you get used to everyone knowing everyone else's business, you'll like it.

Have you moved your children to the desirable, hard to get into school? I remember someone telling me that they’d met someone who’d moved into my street. However, when she said “Oh! What number? My friend Cru lives there” they got really evasive. Because they hadn’t actually moved there, they’d put the address down for school admissions.

Village life. They like to be over involved.😉

Tell them you work for MI5 and if you tell people where you live the secret service would have to 'make sure they kept it to themselves' with a serious look followed by a sinister smile or witness protection!

If someone we meet asks where we live and we tell them they say “oh Paul and Barbara’s old house”. We have lived here for 4 years! It’s just village life.

This is true — I think I met everyone still living who’d lived in our house since it was built in the 70s, or their children if deceased (people never left, they just moved within the village), and as the previous owners had sold when they bought the local manor house , we appeared to be looked on as likely to do similar, hence the bafflement at our modest lifestyle.

In our village, if you've just moved in they say "Bovis or Persimmon" And the only acceptable answer is "neither"

Village life...

Each house in the village probably has its own history and local connotations. People tend to be like this in small rural communities. Even in my bit, in inner London, it's kind of an estate but not really, we do have a bit of curiosity if we meet a new person about which house/block they're in. Only really for context but just part of living somewhere a long time.
You could just tell them and then say 'oh gawd, it's not the haunted one is it?' and laugh.

They're seeing if you are the same tribe

Just be polite and do your own thing

The car thing is weird, even for a village. Have they no life? I'm guessing not.
I've lived in a village for 9 years. It has a posh end and a not-so-posh end. I am out with the dog a lot and always used to be asked, Do you live in the village? and then, Whereabouts?
Wait about 7 years and people will know, and give up asking 😄.
Actually, as everyone knows everyone, I say that I live in Marjorie Jones's house, who they know moved out 9 years ago, and this shuts them up because they can place me and accept me, I hope. If I don't like the look of them, I say I live 'near the school'.

They are wanting to check out where you fit in to their idea of social standing. Indeed the fact she has been round to check whether your car is there suggests she thinks you are lying!!

We had a lot of talk about us when we moved in, turned out the reason our house was so cheat was because the couple had split. They have a lot of family in the area. Didn’t help that I’d shot my mouth off about how bad a state it was in when we moved in and how strange it was they’d thrashed it so much and left so much behind (we get along great now though!)

Village life....
Trying to suss out your social status, if you are worthy of an invite to the young WI group, worthy of being on the summer fete committee or village show....