To think there might be something dodgy going on?

[1Pinkfluffyelephant]

A family living opposite us sold their house almost a year ago, the new neighbours have still not moved in.
They mentioned back before Xmas they would be hoping to move after Xmas, then they blamed Covid for not being able to get a removal company (despite other families having moved recently both on our street and surrounding).

They come and go randomly, turn up for half hour then leave again then don’t come back for a day or two. It’s a quiet dead end road so really obvious when cars come and go.

All the curtains and blinds the old neighbours left are still up and have remained shut. The windows also never opened even during the heat wave etc - we were out in the garden most the day with DC’s so it was very obvious they were the only house with everything shut.
Something tells me something odd is going on but maybe I’m over thinking 🤷‍♀️

In our last house there was a house across the street that never opened curtains and had some kid playing basketball in the back all day - you could hear him bouncing the ball.

I said I thought it was a cannabis farm and all the neighbours laughed at me.

3 weeks after we moved out there was a huge raid on the house - massive cannabis farm!!

Drugs den ?

Oh good Lord....ask an innocent question on here and get completely flamed for raising it.

From the way people are jumping on you I had assumed you were sitting at your window day and night, marking down car registration numbers and following them, OP .

@areallthenamesusedup

Oh good Lord....ask an innocent question on here and get completely flamed for raising it.

From the way people are jumping on you I had assumed you were sitting at your window day and night, marking down car registration numbers and following them, OP .

We're all supposed to go through life completely oblivious to anything our neighbours do, don't you know

one of them has a job which means they have to stay for a while? -they come over occasionally to check for post & house is OK (you need to do this for insurance to remain valid)
Covid has screwed up selling & buying houses
as pp said divorce situation

I thought covid had made us all neighbourhood watch (pure boredom) we joke about this to our neighbours!

Who cares 🤷🏼‍♀️

I’m so glad there are some sensible people on here that realise you can have some kind of idea of what goes on outside your house without being nosey and having nothing better to do. Backed up by several posts stating exactly what I have said that they noticed something different about a neighbour not necessarily anything major and it turns out to be something. Quite laughable that despite me saying several time’s that I don’t sit at my window all day looking out and just happen to notice things from being out and about (yes some people are more observant than others) that they still insist on making pointless comments. If you don’t have anything nice to say.......

@areallthenamesusedup tell me about it!!! I’m sure it’s AIBU board not flame the OP for daring to look out their window. God forbid I took my eyes off my own properly for a minute 🙄

You need to get a life OP

@Grandcandy I’ve a very happy life Thankyou for your concern. Yours must be very thrilling as you’ve just sat and read through 7 pages of a thread just to tell me to get a life 😂 could you not think up anything interesting?

Google this:

How to spot if you have a cannabis farm next door
A new report estimates that 500,000 people grow cannabis in the UK – roughly one person on every street. So how can you tell if your neighbour is raising a crop?
Cannabis farm
Conor Woodman
Tue 15 Oct 2013 17.10 BST

Our neighbour spent over a year doing up his house, hasn't moved in yet, but over the summer was spending one night there every 2-3 weeks with his mates having an all-night drinking bash. This was while the pubs were shut. We couldn't help noticing this as his house is the semi adjoining ours, we aren't nosy and are busy but do notice whether or not any cars are parked there. So mostly no noise, apart from some DIY and the all-nighters that got louder and louder as the night went on, annoyingly (they woke us up at 5am on a weekend, twice!).

His mum was there once and said something about him leaving home. Maybe he hasn't moved out of his mum's yet and they are keeping eachother company as a household - during lockdown and later due to local restrictions on household visiting.

I kept all my windows and doors shut in the heatwave. It was cooler inside the house, you shouldn't let the heat in by opening the windows to cool it down.

Oh sorry presses post too soon.

Yanbu though, I wouldn't be able to help myself from trying to find out what's going on. I am a proper curtain twitcher and always have been.

I was about 8 when I perfected the art of sitting in a dark room. Watching my neighbours row and not being seen

I was about 8 when I perfected the art of sitting in a dark room. Watching my neighbours row and not being seen Brilliant 🤣

Cannabis farm is my guess. I've one next to me in a 4 bed detached house, it's a bit posh where we live too.
I've not felt the need to tell on them, they are perfect neighbours and aren't doing me any harm. The rest of the street seem oblivious, there's a few pokcie living close by as well

Trafficked children are sometimes used in the production of cannabis - they have to sleep in the property and care for the plants. But as long as they make good neighbours 🤷‍♀️

@divebar I should have preempted that, of course if it was a young Vietnamese worker who was a victim of modern day slavery I'd call the police.
This chap though is local, comes and goes as he pleases, has mates round, and from what I've overheard is farming for a year to fund a round the world travel.
Completely different kettle of fish.

I always have my windows and blinds closed. I have indoor cats that I don’t want to escape, and live on a road where people would just gawk into the house when walking past if they could, I like privacy! I don’t see how that’s dodgy

Have a sniff in the garden. There was a cannibas farm in my apartment block a few years ago with all the vents etc the hallway still stunk.

@1Pinkfluffyelephant check the bins after they leave next time!

Or just on random mornings.

Are there ever any lights on? Can you see the back of the house maybe from the road behind? If it is a cannabis farm they will need lamps.

We just bought a house and probably won't move in properly until after the New Year because we want our son to finish the high school year here first.

I’m still so curious about what exactly you dream up is going on.

I’d just assume life got in the way of them moving in. If I ever saw them I might ask, but I wouldn’t think much on it

[quote 1Pinkfluffyelephant]@Mollyboom not it don’t and never said it did. I was curious to see if other people would think anything of it? Interesting to see that most people don’t look out their windows ever just incase anyone thinks they are nosey or busy bodies. Id much rather have neighbours that were slightly aware of what was going on. I bet if any of these peoples houses were burgled they would be the first to knock on their neighbours doors asking if they had seen or heard anything.[/quote]
I haven't noticed ambulances rock up to the neighbors and no, I'd go to my camera system if someone broke in. Camera don't lie. We have front, back, sides and yard covered.
Any street facing windows are covered with roller shutters or curtains
We just like privacy and given we like it, we GIVE it to our neighbors too.