What’s going on with my neighbours?

[SaltandPepper22]

House next door to me is a buy to let.

Beginning of June this year new tenants moved in. Very obviously a young couple (early 20s) moving into their first rented place together. We went on holiday shortly after the moved in and haven’t seen much of them since we got back.

About 3 weeks ago (so about 5-6 weeks after moving in) they seemed to disappear, we assumed they were on holiday although I thought it was a bit odd that they seemed to have taken both their cars and also three weeks is a bit unusual for a holiday.

Saturday night we got back about midnight and noticed his car (but not hers) was back on the drive. The next morning his car was gone and the driveway has again been empty since.

There is still stuff in their house (plants and cards on the kitchen windowsill can be seen obviously from the street) but we haven’t seen or heard any sign of people living there for weeks now.

If I bump into either of them I’ll ask them if they’re okay, or the neighbour the next door over I’ll see if they know anything but in the meantime I thought I would see what people think.

Where do you think they have gone?

Do you never notice anything about the people living around you?

No I just wouldn't register it. I'm friendly when I see them but I don't clock how long they've been home or away for.

Someone pass me the popcorn please.

You have way too much time on your hands.

Same

Morecambe.

Wise

Are you bored, OP?

Who cares?

They could well be teachers. I used to go to my parents for a month in the summer.

I don’t even know if our lodger is in

I would assume they work nights or long shifts.

Most interesting month of our year was when our neighbours vanished off of the face of the earth following a bit of a to do that DH heard (not unusual for them to be a bit loud, the walls are thin round here).

Theories banded around (our living room) ranged from ‘have they moved out without telling us?’ to ‘do you think one of them buried the other in the garden?’

Honestly, was very entertaining. Turns out they’d done a bit of a midnight flit. Was vastly let down by that one, I had already practiced my concerned neighbour face for the press (joking of course).

He came back to bury her, and her car, under the patio.

My house
I was there late July then went to dds for 3 nights
came home 1 night and went away for 11 nights (still away)
i am then back for 1 night. Away for 2. Back for 1 and away for 12

that's life surely?

We moved into a new home and less than a month later left for 25 days to visit a dying parent in Australia. I’m sure that must have seemed odd to our new neighbours. You just don’t know what’s going on in other people’s lives and unless there’s evidence of something nefarious best not to overthink it.

At a guess, intelligence services safe house. Or they are intelligence services operatives, on various missions.

What are you actually concerned about though? There's nothing concerning about their behaviour imo. You're just nosy.

Ha maybe you are on the other side of my neighbours!
Obviously not, as they are middle aged and have lived here for 20 years. She's Spanish and he is Greek. He works one month away, one month back, and spends three months in Greece in the summer. She WFH, so can actually work from anywhere, so she sometimes goes with him, sometimes goes to Spain.
In the last month he's been away, she's been away too but is currently back for a few days.
I have no idea what their work is but they make for much better neighbours than the other side who have a barky dog! I always know when they are around.

They’ve split up and / or are doing a runner.

Do you never notice anything about the people living around you?

But I don’t post on an international website asking randoms to speculate about them.

Would rather live next to the op than all the other people not caring if their neighbours are dead or alive. She's done nothing wrong other than wonder about them. There's nothing noble about not giving a shit about people you live close to.

Holiday
Travel for work
House sitting
Visiting families
Unusual work patterns
Affair and both live with other people

We have a holiday home an usually disappear for most of the year when we can and work from their on laptops?? We don't go home as we don't need to x

Why are you so bothered and beyond nosy. Go and ask them then if so curious that it is causing you distress in your life. How would you like if someone called to you and asked why you are always at your windows checking on everyone. Just let people live their lives without being monitored by the nosy neighbour on the road. Unbelievable had a neighbour like you always watching people coming and going with her blinds up and lights on incase she missed anything. Am a private person and if see neighbours say hi and quick chat but do not monitor or wonder about their comings or goings.

There is a big difference in being worried about neighbours and curtain twitching and speculating and the neighbours are not old. If it was an elderly person and had not seen for a while that is a different situation totally. This sounds like a thread that was on here before and the op was thinking all sorts and making speculation about men coming and going, it was shocking.

It could be anything. I would just assume they were fine unless I saw evidence they were not. I would possibly notice someone was away but not care enough to register the time.

An example of a very ordinary reason people can be away is I once worked in a business with an overseas office. It was normal for staff to go there for stretches of time.

Some people are students, with long holidays.

Other people are teachers, who visit friends/relatives during school holidays.

Some people are wealthy and do as they please.

Other people are unwell and visit places for health reasons.

I wouldn't be thinking about my neighbours to this extent, just giving examples.