AIBU to think something is 'off' with neighbours

[dancingmonkey]

So about a year ago we had a lady and her young baby move in opposite us.
At first she it's appeared she was single but after a few months I noticed a guy around a lot and seemed to be living there. I can't put my finger on it but they were an odd match and I once saw him leave the house, go to the car- he seemed to put something or collect something from under the wheel arch?! And then walk past the house and into the park..Anyway that might be totally irrelevant just weird. After a few months this guy moves out and within days they was another guy there who had seem to have moved in. This guy was very muscular and 'hard' looking! Didn't notice anything particularly weird about him but just how he literally turned up days after this over guy and was now moved in. Fast forward a few more months, and it's happened again! Within a matter of days one meat head guy has left and another moved in!
I forgot to add actually while second guy was living there a police officer did turn up to the house and was peering through the living room window. They were definitely in and seemed to be hiding?

So now this other guy is in. When guy number 2 was there the women got a new car and now he's gone a new car has arrived. She and new man are driving this car.
I can't work out what the hell is going on, or is it actually nothing? Bf thinks witness protection but im not sure really what that involves. House is council if relevant.

Any ideas?

Invite her for a coffee?

@Pugsnotdrugs101

This sounds weirdly identical to a situation we had in our street a few months back! Not in a town beginning with letter P by any chance are you?!

Nope!

[quote youdoyoutoday]@PneppieGliswer ooooo I'm so intrigued!![/quote]
Ooo, it’s a bit of entertainment for DH & I (and another neighbour enjoys telling me more gossip about Z sleb) but I couldn’t say who it is! Z list sleb seems nice enough (and has very lovely clothes)

How self absorbed do you have to be to not notice the world around you?

There’s a big difference between noticing and carrying out round-the-clock surveillance.

@godmum56

Time travellers visiting to set history right but every time they fix one bit something else goes wrong. they re all the same man but from different times and the baby is him as well.

Excellent. Obviously this

I’m all for a bit of Rear Window.

I’d think she might be a hooker with replacement pimps if she had a stream of clients.

I strongly doubt she’s in witness protection, it’s more likely that she or the blokes or both are dodgy.

Based on my ex-neighbour who moved in boyfriends on a one in one out basis I'd think that.

I can be persuaded it's witness protection/rich girl slumming it/method acting school for Ross Kemp wannabees/intensive training for Britain's Strongest Man contenders.

Oh bore off, we wouldn't have lasted long as a species if we weren't interested in one another! And guess what, it's possible to hold multiple thoughts in your head at the same time, to be interested in multiple things.

I am interested in multiple things, thanks. None of them are the intricacies of my neighbours’ day to day movements.

Seriously, you sound like a real nosy neighbour. Find another hobby, maybe?

But you're on here chatting about it, lol.

@WomanStanleyWoman

How self absorbed do you have to be to not notice the world around you?

There’s a big difference between noticing and carrying out round-the-clock surveillance.

Round the clock surveillance? I've highlighted a couple of things I've seen over a whole year.

@WomanStanleyWoman

How self absorbed do you have to be to not notice the world around you?

There’s a big difference between noticing and carrying out round-the-clock surveillance.

I guess one person's round the clock surveillance is another person's normal day to day going in and out of the house, passing by the window and going to work, school or whatever with their eyes open

I couldn't not notice what my neighbours get up get unless I literally wear blinkers due to the way my street is set out and the fact that my life involves leaving my house.

Maybe she’s a teacher and once she’s taught them she gets a new student.

Or maybe they are nanny’s and the baby is really hard work so they don’t last.

Or one was a plumber, one was an electrician and one was a carpenter and they had live in positions?

(I really wish we had neighbours)

How do people know what their neighbours are up to to this extent? My desk looks out on to my neighbour's drive and I haven't a clue of their daily movements because it just doesn't register. Couldn't care less unless I thought there was some kind of abuse happening.

Well obviously one of them at least was a drug dealer and he's gone to jail and she is part of an international drug smuggling ring why else would she have a new car and someone with a clipboard at the door?

@bananatwain

How do people know what their neighbours are up to to this extent? My desk looks out on to my neighbour's drive and I haven't a clue of their daily movements because it just doesn't register. Couldn't care less unless I thought there was some kind of abuse happening.

Everything mentioned have been things that happen to be happening as I open the curtains or go out the gate etc. and it's impossible not to notice things like different men and cars.

First man was disastrous, dodgy boyfriend.

Second man was her brother...having seen off the dodgy boyfriend and making sure he stayed away...

...then she met the new boyfriend, kicked bro out and moved him in.

That's my best imaginative guess anyway.

Clipboard woman could be social worker. But who knows.

Cuckooing would be my guess. I used to live opposite a similar situation.

More than one cock lodger? Flipping stolen cars?

I'd be concerned they're her pimp or handler and she's being exploited.

@Crunched

Could they be her brothers if they all look similar? Maybe they take it in turns to stay with her if she has had problems with an ex? (Love a good speculation)

@Crunched Yours is the most charitable and kind, non judgemental comment, and I hope you are right !

Can someone explain what "cuckooing" is please?
Thankyou in advance.

Since you WFH yourself (well in between stickybeaking) you are extremely bloody unreasonable to think you can judge that “she doesn’t seem to work” just from watching her come and go. That’s actually epic nerve. Unless you’ve planted spy cameras in hr house?

Your neighbours probably think you’re a cam girl.

Did u watch Line of Duty -
The young lad with Downs was being cuckcoo’d

I’m nosy and worry,
I’d probably report it to police - non emergency- just in case all the tooing and froing you see helps them with any known vulnerability / safeguarding issue ??

I would also think cuckooing. You have no choice but to undertake round the clock surveillance and report back here regularly- I have no shame and really want to know.