DH and I have been house hunting for a while but only recently accepted an offer on our place in London and we are moving to the suburbs to afford more space and have a better quality of life for our child.
We have looked in a few areas and one is a village where a close family friend who I grew up with lives with her DH and DS. We are very close to this family and our parents are half cousins so distant relatives but often get together (pre covid).
They used to live in London too and moved to this village about three years ago and raves about how nice it was. It's near a good station for commuting and a house came up in the village- it's about a 15 minute walk from their house. We told them we were going to see it and they seemed happy enough then we had an offer accepted and they have been silent. Haven't responded to three messages(!) they're active on social media just ignoring us.
I don't know if this is relevant but in the spirit of full disclosure the house we are buying is bigger than theirs - may be relevant may not be.
AIBU to move to "their" village? We have never ever had a falling out before so don't know what this is all about.