To feel like a live in a fish bowl

[urghurghurgh]

Sssooo...
In brief we have lived on our road for about 5 years.
I am absolutely sick of the gossip and feeling like everyone knows everything about me.
I feel like I can’t breathe without someone knowing about it.
We got a new car, and within 5 minutes a friend text saying “oh so and so on your road said you’ve got a new car”
We got a new front door. The same afternoon on the school run 2 people commented on my new front door. I know they were probably just making polite small talk, but still.
We got new shutters and people kept asking about them.
We had to call an ambulance for our LO once at 1am and the next day people were messaging me on Facebook asking what was going on.
Even mundane shit like “oh your ASDA delivery came early this morning” or “I saw the furniture village delivery van outside yours today”
Anyway, we’ve decided to move. Somewhere a bit more rural!
House has been on the market for 24 hours. We requested no for sale sign, so people wouldn’t gossip upon seeing that.
I’ve had 3 family members call and text me saying they’ve noticed we are selling and asking why.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
I just want to live my life in peace! Preferably on a desert island!
Anyway, rant over. Just hoping we can find a house in the middle of nowhere with no neighbours for miles around.
Either that or surrounded by 10 foot fences!

We’ve got dogs so I quite fancied myself in a rural farmhouse surrounded by fields.
Maybe I’ll look at city by a big park!

Rural is hell for nosiness.

But you could just practice your best resting bitch face and be very abrupt with people. Or make it so juicy (OTT) so they stay away...

Like everything, having "nosey" neighbours has its good points.

I lived in a village in the 50s where a huge new housing estate was built and people were shipped in from all over the place, after slum clearance. These people had come from communities where everyone knew each other and been dumped in a place where no-one knew anyone. Consequently the children and young people ran totally wild because nobody knew who the parents were.

I guess it depends how big your family is but I would be surprised if I saw the home of a family member in an estate agent and they hadn’t mentioned they were moving away.

Oh i feel you on this! I lived in a cul de sac for 10 years and my neighbours where all the same! Even commenting on what time my partner would get in after a night out..like wtf!! Nosey parkers. Drove me fucking nuts. We moved in March as honestly..the quiet life is underrated. Move if its making you stressed or unhappy you wont regret it one bit.

*and honestly lol

Friends who live on a new estate have your problem OP. She hates it.