AIBU to ask the neighbours to open the curtains?

[cocostrawberry]

A youngish couple with no children bought a house on our estate about a year ago. They don't get involved with any of the activities such as the summer bbq and basically seem to isolate themselves from the rest of us, their loss. However my main bug is that they NEVER have the living room curtains open and quite often leave the other ones shut also, today every single one of them are shut and I know they are home.

I've hinted a couple of times that it would be best for them to leave them open, the girl mumbled something about a projector and watching films, but they can't be watching films all the time.

AIBU to just point blank ask them to open the curtains during the day, it really depresses me to look across to their house with all the curtains closed, it doesn't look inviting and it looks odd compared to the rest of the estate, we all manage to open their curtains everyday, so why can't they? My DH thinks I'm BU and should just leave them to it but I think when it effects other people I have a right to say something?

Is there a funny smell in the neighbourhood? I'm thinking cannabis farm...

Nudist spies with an allergy to sunlight

MNPD solves another one

I hate having my curtains closed during the day. But then again I am lucky to have never suffered with depression, an d can totally empathise with people who prefer them closed.

I dare you to go and knock on her door OP.

G'wan, g'wan I would not on your fucking nelly

Ha we live on an estate like this it's why we have encouraged the hedge to grow another foot so nosy people can't look into the front room (because I actually like having the curtains open).
Maybe they just don't actually like their neighbours you and are too polite to say anything?
YAB so U it's unbelievable!

Ooooh, drug barons too.

Nudist drug baron spies with a sunlight allergy.

genius

Hate might have a point though. If you're in a snow zone the weed greenhouse will be the only one with none on the roof

Ooh yes, knock on their door and tell 'em. But could someone film it on their phone for us? (For research and training purposes)

YABVVu none of your business. Are they harming you, or causing trouble, no, leave the poor people alone!

Barbecue Avoiding Bastards is making me die with laughter.

OP, is everything okay at home?

My curtains are shut in living room pretty much all the time in the winter are windows let in a draft so it helps with that and the gas bill :(. If my neighbour knocked on my door and told me to open my curtains I think id be stunned!!

Or Vampires

Oh yes, check the roof when you next have snow. And have a sniff of their letterbox for signs of opium or dope.

SHIT.

My MIL has discovered MN.

Is this a joke thread, as nobody can be so like this. You sound like my mother who complains about her next door neighbours not opening their curtains. Get a hobby op. Yes some people are quiet and keep themselves to themselves, would you rather have noisy yobbos shouting and causing trouble!

Are you the neighbour that complained about the Hippo Bag on my drive? tough luck you, I got rid of it and replaced it with an ugly 90's caravan instead.

Probably means one other neighbour on your street is a pervy crotch touching window peeper and the house with the closed curtains are the only ones to have noticed them! Or it could even be you....fess up you curtain peeper!

I don't think they are drug dealers, just lazy.

It's a knocking shop. (entry from the rear) er...no...hang on...

You'd have a fucking field day with our place - curtains always closed and DH has insulated the loft to within an inch of its life. Takes ages for snow to melt off our roof (always the last in the road).

nudist, drug dealing spies and terrorists (who don't like BBQs)

do they sidle up to people on park benches and say things like 'the eagle flies south for the winter.'

pervy crotch touching window peeper

I feel a namechange coming on...

I agree it looks odd, and I prefer to let the daylight in, but it really is none of your business.

If they have lamp on in the window with a red light bulb it's definitely a knocking shop spiders

I know what you mean OP, the house at the bottom of our garden does the same and I wish they wouldn't.

Why, does it spoil your uninterrupted view? How exactly does it impact on your enjoyment of your house/garden that they have their curtains closed? Would you otherwise have an amazing vista of rolling plains or the Pyramid at Giza if they would only draw their curtains?

Young couple with children who keep their curtains closed. Yup, lazy. No other explanation.
Or they just don't want to socialise and have their own lives away from communal bbq's and enforced neighbourly fun.
I think you should probably take a hint..

Lazy, you say, OP... are they - I can barely bring myself to ask - on benefits?