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Weird neighbours

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PrettyLittIeThing · 06/04/2018 17:05

Please tell me other people have neighbours like this and it's not just me! So whenever I am in my garden my neighbours will spy out the window at me. They did it last summer and now that the weather is getting better it looks like they are back to it. (Haven't been using the garden much until now.) Last year they use to spy out when my kids were in their paddling pool. Now I am tidying up the garden ready for the nice weather they are looking out directly down at us again. Even if I look up they just stay there staring. It's the parents and the kids that do it. Today the daughter was hanging out of the window looking down at us and just singing?! It made me uncomfortable to the point I went back inside. Aibu to find this annoying. Sometimes I think it's because I live in a gff (well it's a mainsonette) as surely in a house you wouldn't look into your other neighbours garden whereas they are above us. Before anyone days maybe they are just looking outside at the view. No they are definitely not as they are looking directly down and there is no view anywy just trees. Aibu to find this annoying? Just to add me and these neighbours don't talk at all other than collecting parcels from each other (been about 4 times in two years so not often.) but that's the only interaction we have had.

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PrettyLittIeThing · 07/04/2018 15:16

Personally I have zero interest in becoming friends with my neighbours. I live in london and have moved 3 times I've literally never been welcomed ever by any neighbours. None of my neighbours said hello to me when I moved in either. Even my direct neighbours right next door to me. So I might be "weird" but it's obviously the norm where I live and likewise the upstairs neighbours have never said hello to me. Anyway I have come to the conclusion they probably are jealous or desperate to talk to me after coming out again just now and hearing their window screech open within seconds of me being out. I didn't even look up this time.

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moofolk · 07/04/2018 22:39

I have next door neighbours with children if one of them cried in their garden I wouldn't dream of calling over and asking them anything
Really? You wouldn't see if you neighbour's kid was ok if they were crying? TBH OP it sounds like you're the weird neighbour. You have no interest in interacting with your community at all, I personally think that's quite odd. I live in a ground floor flat and the kids upstairs often come down to play. We're neighbours. And now friends.
We do them favours and they do us favours. It's a community. That's how it works. If my child was upset I'd expect my neighbours to care.

Are you by any chance a middle class person who has bought an ex council flat?

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