To enjoy looking through other people's windows in the evening.

[LEMmingaround]

I do this when i walk to and from my little cleaning job. It makes me feel all warm inside!

Doesn't matter what people are doing, what they have on display etc, its better when they have lamps rather than lights and i love to see families sat with their dinners on their laps or kids playing on the floor in front of the fire. Or single folk sat with their lap-top and or .

I'm not being nosey, it just makes me feel nice

I'm a weirdo aren't i???

I do it when I'm walking the dog!

I just can't help it. I'm like a moth to a light bulb

It was the best thing about my laser eye surgery. I never knew you could see in! Love travelling on top desk of the bus now.

I do this too, especially on my long winter train commute through London. And you get to see who puts their Christmas tree up first!

Heck no! When I lived in a town or suburb was quite a hobby of mine to be a nosy cow peoplewatch in the evenings as I walked places. Got some got interior design ideas, too.
I live in a village now with bigger front gardens and fewer houses so there is less to look at, alas.

I do this too. It makes me feel cosy if I'm outside walking in the rain. Although it probably makes me look like the homeless kid in Santa Claus the Movie.

I love that too. Makes me happy.

I think this is a lovely part of it getting darker and gloomier! For some reason seeing everyone cosy indoors when I'm soaked outside makes me feel all warm.

Mind you, where I live I keep being thwarted by blinds and shutters

I don't think you are BU. I love to see how other people live, which is why I like watching those family-based reality shows. Even as a child I was fascinated when going to other peoples' houses to see how everyone used their own home, interacted with their family, spent their leisure time. I think it comes from having a kind of fantasy of perfect family life, whilst having a pretty miserable one in reality growing up.

I do it too - though we did have a laugh on the coach to Victoria station one day when a little girl at the front shouted out "Daddy that man has got no trousers on" as we went past a series of flats by the roadside! You've never seen so many necks crane round!! (It wasn't worth it)

I love riding on the train and looking into everyone's back gardens too.

I love looking into people's houses. I love looking at their gardens too. I'm a really nosy bugger.

Theres a wonderful low rise apartment building on the swish side of town that has huge floor to ceiling windows in all apartments.

At this time of year they all have lights on and curtains /blinds open.

Tis heaven .

Looks like an advertisement for apartment living.

YABU. It's dreadfully nosy.

But for all the peeping toms- there's a station near me with a public loo over the road, and if you're sitting on the top deck of a bus and you get caught at the crossing you can see men pissing at the urinal.

Love it too. It's a stolen snapshot of family life.

you should go to Holland.

People don't close the curtains at night, it is part of the culture, quite nice on an evening walk

Love it! Do a lot of judging too, about wallpaper choices, or how big some peoples TVs are. I figure that sinc they'll never know, I can judge away happily and noones hurt.

I did, but will not again. My neighbour was getting changed I assume to go to gym as he was really battling to get his gym pants on.... those long cycling type ones. He was doing this crazy dance, and I just couldn't stop looking as it was so funny....

I hope to goodness he didn't see me (his light was on and it was dark outside), but he does give me a nice little wave when I see him .

I love it too, definitely not BU!

I quite like looking in to see what they've done with their living rooms - I'm in a part of town with lots of victorian terraces and they all have big bay windows. I'm a nosy bugger and have got lots of design ideas from noseying at what the neighbours have done.

This reminds me of a film though. Something about a kid looking in at lots of families having happy dinners when he's on his own in the street.. does anyone know what I mean?

This is my main activity on the dog's evening walk.

I love it too. It's like those Christmas scenes you see on cards with houses all lit up and families inside. Christmas is my favourite time to peer in. I even leave my curtains open for a while at night to indulge other people.

I love a good nose into other people's living rooms, especially when Christmas decorations are up!

OP - interesting and quite nice to read. We have no curtains on our kitchen/diner and often wonder why people are looking at us as having us having dinner or me burping the baby doesn't seem to be interesting. But thanks for the insight and I'll make sure I have low level lighting on and improve our wall displays as it's a bit boring at the moment

There's a road near where my mum lives with some quite big and fancy houses.

Come Christmastime, they all put their trees in the bay windows and kindly leave the curtains open so that everyone can see them.

It's lovely

I love it too but always feel nosey. I have a real thing about our blinds being shut properly to stop people looking in, so I realise I'm a total hypocrite!

If you looked in through my window, you'd see DH sat at one end of the sofa & me laid across the rest of it snuggled into my lovely throw. Every single night. We're a bit boring!

I do this all time, how can you not tbh.
When I was at Uni my house mate and I were dancing around her room partially dressed whilst getting changed to go out that evening, until we saw the top of a mans head and eyes at the bottom of the window staring in at us! God knows how long he'd been there. The front garden had quite high bushes a wall and a gate so he'd have been obscured from the street.