My neighbours have disappeared

So is the house still empty after all this time?

Did they come back?

Always ask, there have been enough incidents of children and women disappearing off the face of the earth to be rightfully hoping they are OK and checking. The suggestion to report it to the police is a good one and the right thing to do.

It's thinking socially and looking after communal safety. You aren't being nosy or interfering.

My friend's brother was undiscovered for 5 days just because he didn't live with anyone but someone nosy from the local pub went to check on him. I'm sure people would have told her not to bother. Years is very unusual, but short periods are quite common and you can see how weeks would pass quite easily.

If someone has been lying dead for years undiscovered, surely it’s more upsetting that they didn’t have family or friends to worry about them? I’d just assume a neighbour had moved away.

I think the reaction of mind your own business is a bit harsh by many. That's what happens when people are discovered dead in their homes for months or years! The neighbours took no interest in them! Think it's sad when that happens.

Maybe they own the house but have rented it out or vacated it because he is in the military and has been been posted overseas/ somewhere else has taken family with them and.

I think you are really caring to notice - tell Police then job done x
I left my Relationship once and a neighbour tracked me down on WhatsApp to check on my welfare - I thought that was very kind !

+1 on this. Notifying the police is the smartest move, and surely this won't be the first time they've faced a situation like this!

Hopefully they are gone on an extended trip around the world!!

We had this. NDN worked for a supermarket the whole family went abroad for him to set up the software for new stores in that country. They left everything in their house and came back every 6months or so for birthdays, Christmas etc. One of their parents would pop round occasionally to clear post. We didn’t realise they’d gone (or were back) for a good few days and were semi detached on them. So I can see how easy it would be if we only connected on the garden. They have two children.

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"I know their next door neighbour fairly well as we both have dogs and tend to bump into each other so will mention it to them in passing next time I see them out on a walk."

That's the thing to do. If any neighbour knows anything it will be someone next door.

TBH I can't see it either.

My elderly (and terminally ill) neighbour died a few weeks ago. I saw her very late on the evening when I went to take her dog out for a wee. The next morning I found her dead. Given where she was located and what she was wearing, I would hazard a guess she died soon after I left. The paramedics said she'd been dead for several hours when they got to her.

I was sad to think that had I only stayed a few more minutes then she may not have died alone. But then from what I've been told, her death was probably instant. Minutes, hours, we will all be a long time dead. But had it not been for the fact she had a dog that she needed help with, I would never have been there at all...such a private woman, almost reclusive. I only knew they was a problem when it became known in the neighbourhood that she needed help with the dog.

Sad as it is, she could have been there for far longer, had I not been going round for the dog. I only really knew her to shout hello to, on the rare occasions I saw her out, and I didn't think she'd accept my offer to help. I'm glad she did, but we are all limited as to what we can do.

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What exactly WAS your point?

😂 In the dark.

Way to miss the point spectacularly

Also OP, it's very nice of you to be concerned - do what you feel you need to do but ignore the daft suggestions about lost balls, lost dogs etc - typical Mumsnet over-complicatedness at its finest!

Visions of them all somersaulting down the road now ...

Is the garden being maintained? The lawn would be four foot high if no one has been there for a few months with the weather we have had!

Some of our neighbours have gone to stay with family abroad whilst DC still young enough to be in diff school system for a year. We live in a university town and families take sabbaticals away quite often

They probably just done a moon light flip.
I did it a few times moved out and no one knew.
I moved at night a few times due to nosy neighbours.